WiFi is a global standard, so your iPod Touch should connect to WiFi networks around the world regardless of where you bought it.

You don’t need a subscription to connect to open WiFi hotspots, and many cafes, some airports and some hotels offer free WiFi access for their customers. Other public hotspots charge on either a subscription or usage basis for access to their network. These typically work through purchasing a token or purchasing access through a secure web page that shows up by default when you connect to the new network.

If you use Eircom broadband at home, they offer subscribers free access to their public WiFi hotspots, so you may well already have free access to lots of hotspots around Ireland.

Best of luck… and enjoy your iPod Touch… it’s a great mobile device, as long as you can live with iTunes .

Thanks and have a good one,

Stu

I’d be mainly using it over WiFi rather than 3G networks anyway, at least initially, and shelling out a hefty monthly sum to O2 for the privilege kind of rubs against the grain… if you know what I mean.

An iPhone on a standard mobile plan and legally open for use on any network would be a much more attractive proposition.

If the iPhone goes up to 32GB I guess I’ll be selling mine.

I loved the iPod Touch, and was completely blown away by the multi-touch UI. I also realise that some people swear by iTunes as a media library, and that’s great.

I just wish Apple would give users the choice, rather than trying to impose their view of the world on people who might prefer to manage and synchronise their media files in some other way.

As a Mac user I’m very happy with its link to iTunes, but I do wish we had more iTunes functionality such as a bigger range of views (eg album coverflow sorted by artist, and nested views à la iTunes). I’d really like to see the ability to update podcasts directly to the iPod, and being able to create playlists would be handy too.

I haven’t used the photos yet as it’s full of music, but will make room and try it out soon.

More email editing (multiple ‘mark as read’ for instance) would be useful.

Cheers,

Debbie

Glad you liked the review. I was very impressed with the iPod, less enamoured with iTunes, and the fact that I had to duplicate my media library to use it.

All things considered though, apple did a lot of things right with the iPod Touch.

Cheers,

Calvin!