Who Just Made the iPhone Useless? This Guy!

Hey everyone, this is Chris_sez with a little post about something amazing I did with my iPod Touch 4th generation.  If you previously read my article "The Apple Product Triplets," you will more likely know that I have some issues with the iPhone and how, in my point of view, is like an iPod Touch 4th generation, but with a bill attached with it.  Remember that this is my opinion; you do not have to agree with it if you do not want to.  I recently found an app in the App Store called Talkatone, which you can call people for free.  I have both a Google Voice account and the app that corresponds with it, but I could only text with the Google Voice app.  In order for me to make calls on my iPod, I had to download the Talkatone app.

Is the app useful?  Does it work?  Do I like it?  To answer all three of these questions, I would say yes!  This app works well in WiFi and 3G areas (only used WiFi so far), the call quality is superb, and it does connect to your Google Voice account.  The negative side of this app is that it does have a little lag to it, there are ads, and it might be hard to use at first.  My solution for that is to just play with the app for a while to understand it more.  I've actually called a lot of people on the app and even a store to ask for books.  I recommend this app to anyone that doesn't want to get an iPhone or just wants to make free calls on an iPod.  In the end, do you want to waste money on an iPhone + a two year contract, or just get an iPod touch and get this app?  This app is free, and you pay for the ad free version of it; however, the ads aren't a pain at all.  With that said, I'm Chris and that is what I have to say.

Talkatone © 2011 TalkMe.IM Inc.

Welcome To The Social Netowrk... I Mean Social Networks Pt. 3

     If you read Part 1 and Part 2, then congratulations!!! You are at the final part. If you just started to read this one, go back and read Part 1 and 2. We talked about the video social networks, and regular social networks. Throughout that time between the last blog entry and this blog entry, Facebook has gotten video chat. To tell you the truth, its just Facebook chat powered by Skype. You can even see that when the call is received. But a new innovation in technology has come up; it is called TalkBox. The app came out in mid August. What is it you ask? Well its voice messaging. Yes I did just say that. It is basically an answering machine.

     Now the question is it worth the download to your iPod, iPhone, Android, or other mobile device? I would say yes. The reason I said yes is because as I said in the beginning it is an innovation in technology. Instead of just writing text, we're now able to hear each other's voices. That's a step up in technology to me. At first I was skeptical; I thought it was just a fad. However, my brother explained it to me and I realized that my thinking on this was a little bias. The app is good and it is possible to connect the app to Facebook, so you can add you friends from Facebook to the app (if they have it). I would give it a 9 out of 10. Well it's the end of this 3 part blog. Thank you for taking time out to read this and I apologize if it took too long to write this final part. I'll try and write the next one soon. Follow the blog via blogger or via email. Spread the word via Twitter or Facebook. I'm Chris and that is what I have to say.

The Apple Products Triplets

Time to go after Apple. Once again, I'm not hating on Apple or people who have Apple products because I have an ipod Shuffle 2GB. So Apple makes a lot of products around the same time. For example, when I brought my ipod Shuffle, it was the latest one. About a year later, a new and updated one came out. The one thing that I don't like that Apple do is their trial and error. How about they do this, take some more time to fix the problems your products have. They probably won't do this because they want their money. Now that I got that out of the way, let's talk about the Apple Triplets we all know; the Apple ipod Touch, Apple iphone (3GS and 4), and the new Apple ipad (including the ipad 2).

People buy these products. However; you have people who buy all three. I'm not trying to offend anyone when I say this, but the people who buy all three are easily persuaded. When you look at all three, there are no differences. Now we all know that the ipod touch can play music, and have apps like there iphone and ipad. Now people can get free phone and texting apps (such as Google Voice, or Text Free) on the ipod touch. Doesn't that

defeat the purpose of the iphone. And since the triplets have that same app store, doesn't that make the iphone more useless. And now the triplets have cameras, so all three products have FaceTime. Another thing that all three have is that they're an ipod. Do you really three "phones", three "ipods", and three products with the same apps from the same app store?

So the question is now, would you buy all three or just get an ipod touch? Here's my theory:"an ipod touch can be a phone with the free calling, texting and facetime apps. An iphone is basically an ipod touch with a huge ass bill. If you get an ipad or ipad 2, you are a sucker. It is literally an overpriced ipod touch."

That is all I gotta say. Please leave a comment(s). I really want to know your opinion on what I said. Have fun reading this and I'll see y'all next time.