Topic: Need some quick advice on iPod Touch

[Scott S]

 My daughter (who is grown and lives on her own...and struggling like most 20-something's) is asking for an iPod Touch for Christmas. I think it's an extravagant gift for someone who has a fancy new cell phone and could use other things.
 Yeah, yeah...I know it's Christmas, the Season of Giving, yada yada.... let's just say she's plenty spoiled, OK?

 Anyway, the main reason she wants one is because someone at her job has one and they use it to listen to Pandora radio.
 The daughter has no laptop or PC at her place. She doesn't even know if she can get wi-fi at her house (from the landlord or otherwise). I think she's under the impression that once she gets the Pandora app and an adapter for her car, she can listen to Pandora while driving around.
  I know she can download songs from there (which she can already do on her phone), but won't she need 3G or 4G service in order to use the iPod Touch anywhere that there is not wi-fi?

 And she needs wi-fi or a computer just to activate the iPod Touch, right? As well as needing it to get any apps that are not built in.
 Her co-worker says she uses hers in her car, but I think she's either listening to stuff she's downloaded OR using a wireless network.

 I just want to be informed so that my daughter knows what she is and isn't getting. I'm under the impression that she's under the impression that it will work anywhere, like an AM radio with two AA batteries! I'm just worried that she'll get it and not be able to use it or afford the wireless service.

 I've been to the iPod and Pandora sites, but can someone who has one explain to me in laymans terms just what is and isn't needed to use this thing?

[seaweb11]

Buy her a book

[Scott S]

Buy her a book

 You're preaching to the choir, brotha.

[Gordon]

She can use the cell signal to stream from Pandora, or to just use the internet in general, but data plans to do that aren't exactly cheap.  My wife and I are on what's probably the cheapest data plan available (Sprint), and even that is $70 per month for a line.  

Also, Pandora use is limited if you don't pay for a subscription.

[the technological J]

The ipod touch has to have a wifi connection to work ..... I have a data package on my droid and love it I use the free version of pandora all the time... you are only allowed a few skips an hour on the free version and there are a few commercials but only after an hr or so.... my driod does everything the I pod touch does and has the same amount of memory.... but requires a data plan... what phone does she have and what service?

[Scott S]

... what phone does she have and what service?

 T-Mobile MyTouch phone.

[the technological J]

I'm pretty sure that's a droid phone tell her to check the app market for pandora

[Industrial Rat400f Killer]

I pay $25 per month for my 3G data plan through AT&T. I think you can get that for an iPod touch but I'm not sure. If not, no wifi no Pandora. I listen to pandora's free version for hours at a time. There's one commercial about every 30 minutes, other than that it's music nonstop for as long as you want.
Maybe your daughter's work has a wifi she can use but in the car she'll need a data plan.

[the technological J]

i pod touch cannot i phone can

[Anti-Johnny]

I used pandora on my iphone and use it now on my Evo (android), and its almost exactly the same. It would probably be cheaper to upgrade her phone to an android device than to buy an itouch. I now that she has a mytouch. Just download pandora. the mytouch can also hold something like 8gb of music.

The itouch needs a wireless connection to connect to pandora and all other network related media or games.

seems like a waste if she has a device that she isnt using to its full potential.

[Grnrngr]

i pod touch cannot i phone can

correct..ipod doesn't have the capability to get 3g or 4 cellular service, if it did, it would be an iphone. she could only get pandora when wifi is available, but with 16 or 32 or 64 gig capability she could still listen to hours and hours and hours of music she loads on herself after she downloads it to the ipod from her computer, but.. gotta have one to do that...they can activate it the store tho...