Why can't the iPod Touch have cellular data?
I mean, both the iPhone and iPad can have cellular data, but the iPod Touch can't. Why can't the iPod Touch have cellular data?
I mean, both the iPhone and iPad can have cellular data, but the iPod Touch can't. Why can't the iPod Touch have cellular data?
Because then it'd be an iPhone.
If you really need cellular data for your touch, you can look into devices like the Mifi. But the Touch was really conceived to be a small portable gaming device that also accessed the net via wifi. Think of it as a pre-phone iPhone.
Skydiver119 wrote:
But the Touch was really conceived to be a small portable gaming device that also accessed the net via wifi.
And here I always thought it was conceived to be a small portable music player..... Remember back when that's pretty much all it did? 😉
Meg St._Clair wrote:
Skydiver119 wrote:
But the Touch was really conceived to be a small portable gaming device that also accessed the net via wifi.
And here I always thought it was conceived to be a small portable music player..... Remember back when that's pretty much all it did? 😉
Be careful, you may be showing your age. 😝
ChrisJ4203 wrote:
Meg St._Clair wrote:
Skydiver119 wrote:
But the Touch was really conceived to be a small portable gaming device that also accessed the net via wifi.
And here I always thought it was conceived to be a small portable music player..... Remember back when that's pretty much all it did? 😉
Be careful, you may be showing your age. 😝
Not too long ago, I found the review of the original iPod that I'd pulled out of that month's issue of MacAddict.
As I was teaching my computer class the other day, we were discussing personal experiences with computer history and I was sharing how my first computer was a Commodore 64, and the "disk drive" for that device was a cassette player. Students though I was kidding.
ChrisJ4203 wrote:
As I was teaching my computer class the other day, we were discussing personal experiences with computer history and I was sharing how my first computer was a Commodore 64, and the "disk drive" for that device was a cassette player. Students though I was kidding.
My ex worked for Commodore at that time. My first computer programming class was done over a teletype to a timeshare mainframe. Paper punch tape. It would make their little heads explode.
I remember those days of taking computer classes and having to get the punch tap and turning that in to the professor for him to run it through and test your program. Boy, we are getting old!! 😊
ChrisJ4203 wrote:
I remember those days of taking computer classes and having to get the punch tap and turning that in to the professor for him to run it through and test your program. Boy, we are getting old!! 😊
Yup.
Punch tape? New-fangled stuff. I started with punch cards.
I remember those as well, but I was just graduating high school and they had them in the large computer room at the manufacturing company I worked at. A large air conditioned room with several large computers along one wall, all using 12" tape reels, and all they could do was simple inventory. To think my smartphone has more computing power than that entire room had back then.
ChrisJ4203 wrote:
I remember those as well, but I was just graduating high school and they had them in the large computer room at the manufacturing company I worked at. A large air conditioned room with several large computers along one wall, all using 12" tape reels, and all they could do was simple inventory. To think my smartphone has more computing power than that entire room had back then.
I think our smart phones have more computing power than what they used to put men on the moon. I always think of that when people tell me that they just can't survive without their phones.
But the iPad can have cellular data and that doesn't make it an iPhone. Even the iPad Mini can have cellular data, and that doesn't turn it into an iPhone either. Is it because of the size of the iPod that it would be turned into an iPhone if it had cellular data?
Considering that cases for the 5th gen iPhone fits a 5th gen iPod, that could be a logical conclusion.
iPads have cellular data, iPhones obviously do, iPods do not.
At the end of the day, Apple does what Apple chooses to do.
If you want cellular data for your iPod, you can look into a device like the Mifi, which is a portable wifi hotspot that you can hook your iPod to.
restaurantpattybob wrote:
But the iPad can have cellular data and that doesn't make it an iPhone. Even the iPad Mini can have cellular data, and that doesn't turn it into an iPhone either. Is it because of the size of the iPod that it would be turned into an iPhone if it had cellular data?
But there's no upside for Apple.
Why can't the iPod Touch have cellular data?