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Facetime: The iPod Touch Review

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So it’s been a little while since I had gone and “Macified” myself over the summer. I don’t have an iPhone or anything crazy but I did reach out for an iPod for those days I go do some running (which is an activity I loathe). I have had enough time playing with the little contraption to write a review. My brother also has one (the one I am better than) so naturally we Facetimed but not in the perverted way 78% of you are thinking. I am not saying that it didn’t come up in conversation, all I am saying is it didn’t happen. If we had been from the Southeastern region on the United States I firmly believe we could have been one of the early cases of Facetime incest but we have dignity and come from New England.

So on the first call I could see his house and he could see the inside of my bathroom because I wanted to be relaxed for the first time. We spoke for about 15 minutes and audio was awesome along with video. It was the 1970′s pipe dream of video phone technology fucking my eyeballs. No matter how hard I tried to stop using the feature I just couldn’t stop talking it up. The Facetime feature became one of the most used features of any technology I have ever owned. Then my father jumped in and got an iPod and I thought,”Shit here we go again, but we are from New England so this will NOT go down like that.” I was dead on. Facetime went smooth again and was completely enjoyable as the children gathered around to say hello to Grandpa and begin to show all the toys we have accumulated over the years. I knew this was going to be an addictive app.

Over the course of the next 2 weeks I have Facetimed everyday with at least one, if not both family members like we have so much to catch up on (we don’t). We just love this app so much that I am surprised we don’t call each other up and watch each other sleep at night with a dimmed nightlight to keep us involved. I am thrilled this has come into my life because it makes those boring days seem better because I have people that can now visually share those days with me.

The downside of all of this is that it is Wi-Fi only so I am trapped in my house more than before. Sure I can use it at other places with the ability of Wi-Fi but then that would mean I have other things to do. Who wants to interrupt excitement? I sure as shit don’t. Facetime is an exciting thing when you only want to spend a couple hundred bucks on the visual and skip the plane tickets when you are far from home. I haven’t used it on the otherside of the world yet, but in time I will. Its a matter of a wait before my brother can enjoy seeing me on a can somewhere in Japan or even Taiwan. I am going to have to think of inappropriate ways to answer Facetime for when family and friends call though and I will keep that to another post.

All in all I gave Facetime a perfect rating because even with the downside of not being able to do it anywhere through 3g or 4g, I would pay those bastards at AT&T a dime more than I need to. For now Wi-Fi is the ticket and this is a must have!