Apple iPod touch

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• Apple iPod nanoPeople recommend it for its small size, responsive feel and the way it handled a music library, with many saying nothing since has matched it. One critic notes weak audiobook support.15recommend

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1. It was pretty neat at that time to take this responsive, color-screened pocket computer with me on a walk

   Mixed · Jan 2026 · in “Mobile carriers can get your GPS location”

2. Absolute perfect typing experience, better responsiveness and almost entirely free of mistakes.

   Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video]”

3. Half the time when I'm home I still use my iPod touch because it's even smaller than the mini.

   Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “Apple Introduces iPhone 17e”

4. the keyboard experience was vastly superior than the iPhone now

   Recommends · Sep 2026 · in “iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27”

5. It was first real-computer-class-computer I had that had no official terminal access or total freedom to run anything I want

   Criticizes · Aug 2026 · in “Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change”

6. Apple would rather old iPhones and iPods become useless e-waste bricks than release an EoL update to unlock the bootloader

   Criticizes · Jan 2026 · in “The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe”

7. Two iPads, an iPod Touch and an iPhone of mine have been made unusable by OS updates.

   Criticizes · Nov 2025 · in “Report: Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'”

8. great device by the way) has a really low screen resolution which can be quite challenging at times

   Mixed · Feb 2026 · in “Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2026)”

9. these are all products that created categories of their own when they were first released

   Recommends · Aug 2026 · in “The "mechanical miracle" that ruined Mark Twain's life”

10. I remember the first iTouch I ever bought being very intuitive to use

    Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)”

11. Get a second-hand Apple iPod Touch, remove all apps you don't need.

    Recommends · May 2026 · in “It's time to talk about my writerdeck”

12. The 4th Gen iPod touch had 256 meg of RAM and also did those things

    Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “Show HN: Z80-μLM, a 'Conversational AI' That Fits in 40KB”

13. did an amazingly-good job of delivering the beholder's location

    Recommends · Jun 2026 · in “Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation”

14. everyone in the class got a free iPod Touch for development

    Mixed · Nov 2025 · in “Paul Hegarty's updated CS193p SwiftUI course released by Stanford”

15. the latter was much more magical to me

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Richard D. James interviews ex Korg engineer Tatsuya Takahashi (2017)”

16. my 2007 iPod touch still works

    Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leaving iPhone”

17. nice but entirely forgettable

    Mixed · May 2026 · in “Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone”

18. Everything about that was a massive pain, prying the case open, dealing with all the glue inside

    Criticizes · Apr 2026 · in “All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027”

19. One ipod touch has zero battery capacity.

    Criticizes · Dec 2025 · in “Cost of Ownership for Apple Products”