Using an iPod

I have the original 1st. generation iPod Shuffle and an iPod touch, the 1st. generation unit I use at least 5 days a week listening to music when I am at the gym. The iPod touch has only been used about 6 time as I find it too cumbersome to use. Probably will give it to the grand-kids.

I use my iPod touch to carry e-books and files such as guidebook clips and topo maps for hiking. It is also my camping music system. I can use Bluetooth to tether my iMac's wireless keyboard to it for any word processing (travel journal? e-mail) I need to do. It is really a little computer. It is quite capable of playing videos, but I find the screen too small for that.

We actually use ours as a game console for little kids, instead of them playing with our iPhones. But, also a great device to store music, podcasts etc on. E

I have an iPod Touch 5th gen. and I use it to store and listen to music. I bought a Bose speaker made for the iPod. It is my home "music system". I have other "stuff" on it also, but like others have said the screen is really too small for everyday use.

I have an IPOD Classic.I mainly use it for music but I also have all the pictures from my computer on it.

I have an original ipod touch. I find I don't use it much anymore. The screen is just to small to do any reading, or surfing. I bought an ipad to use to surf the net & read email, etc.
I do take the ipod touch to doctor appointments occasionally, in case I have a long wait, I can read email or something ( if they have wifi).
For music, I use my ipad, or my ipod.

I don't really use my old iPod for anything much anymore other than music and audiobooks. We keep it connected to the daily driver vehicle all the time now and it stays charged and available through the dash stereo while living safely out of sight.

We prefer an iPad for the camper, and on that we have movies (both home travel movies and commercial flicks), music, and a few games. I actually prefer reading on a Kindle eInk because the screen has far less glare and the battery lasts weeks on a single charge. I originally thought that I would do a lot more with the iPod than I ended up actually using it for, and after getting an iPad when they first came out, I can't imagine how anyone could read much of anything on the small screen of an iPod, but that's just me. If he has problems seeing on the small screen, perhaps an older iPad would be a good upgrade for him (and he won't lose anything because the iPad can run all the same things the iPod can, plus a good deal more)

- Randy

iPod touch is playing music in a speaker dock as I type (Janis Joplin right now) - over 3,000 selections on it. Also have a bunch of apps that I use frequently, great for checking sports scores if you have WiFi. Have a couple of news apps that I use occasionally. Like the restaurant locator apps, weather apps and NPR and WGN radio apps.

Use the calendar constantly and the weather apps. Used to read e-books on it before I got the Kindle Paperwhite.

Also use it for music in the smart and the truck.

We plan on using it for audio tour guides in Rome and Venice this summer.

On my third one at present - killed two of them: one fell in the pool, the other died (along with my phone) in moment of brain fade involving a small canoe! One of the dead ones will still work in the speaker dock for listening to NPR.

RGar974417 wrote:
I have an IPOD Classic.I mainly use it for music but I also have all the pictures from my computer on it.

Same here :C

I believe Steve Jobs called the iPod Touch an iPhone without the phone. So you can pretty much do what the iPhone does. Even make phone calls using VoIP with either a WiFi or mobile data sleeve.

When I had one, I used it primarily for apps and music.