<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8c4f1caf-c300-4835-b98b-9ae742c34afc/E0C803D1-FA7E-48A6-B51F-5CACC34BEBBE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://lifehacker.com/399619/forget-the-iphonethe-ipod-touch-is-good-enough" href="http://lifehacker.com/399619/forget-the-iphonethe-ipod-touch-is-good-enough" style="font-size: 11px;">lifehacker.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/399619/forget-the-iphonethe-ipod-touch-is-good-enough"><H1><A class="top" href="http://lifehacker.com/399619/forget-the-iphonethe-ipod-touch-is-good-enough">Forget the iPhone—The iPod Touch is Good Enough</A></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/399619/forget-the-iphonethe-ipod-touch-is-good-enough">I'm amazed at how little love the <A href="http://lifehacker.com/tag/ipod-touch/" title="Click here to read more posts tagged IPOD TOUCH" class="autolink">iPod touch</A> gets. It's a slimmer iPhone with almost all its features, it requires no contract, and when you can't get a Wi-Fi signal, your plain, humble cellphone can step up to take its place.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/399619/forget-the-iphonethe-ipod-touch-is-good-enough"> Here's how I use my plain old flip phone for calls and getting info in Wi-Fi less areas, and the iPod touch for everything else.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/399619/forget-the-iphonethe-ipod-touch-is-good-enough"><H3>Your Non-iPhone Can Do a Whole Lot via SMS</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/399619/forget-the-iphonethe-ipod-touch-is-good-enough"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/lifehacker.com/img/9742DF2F-FDD9-4BBC-BFF7-51007EC1772F" alt="old_verizon_phone3.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/399619/forget-the-iphonethe-ipod-touch-is-good-enough">I send a text message from my plain old flip phone to <A href="http://www.google.ca/intl/en_ca/mobile/sms/index.html">Google SMS</A>—46653 (GOOGLE)—and I get the results usually in less than a minute. If it's a long address, I'll just call 1-800-GOOG-411 and say "text message" to remember it later. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/399619/forget-the-iphonethe-ipod-touch-is-good-enough"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/lifehacker.com/img/EA71A995-DEC7-4D43-88B7-A65FC811FC97" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/399619/forget-the-iphonethe-ipod-touch-is-good-enough"><H3>The Apps Are Just as Good</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/399619/forget-the-iphonethe-ipod-touch-is-good-enough"><P> <IMG width="158" class="right image158" src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/17/2009/07/thumb160x_47b8f9053c987f8f6f71ec2ad1702abd.jpg" />I can draft ideas and entries for my WordPress blog and sync them later, read the feeds I grabbed last time I was online through <A href="http://lifehacker.com/398291/">NetNewsWire</A>, duck into a Starbucks and find great restaurants nearby with <A href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=284910350&mt=8">Yelp</A> or <A href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=284708449&mt=8">UrbanSpoon</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/399619/forget-the-iphonethe-ipod-touch-is-good-enough">roughly</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/399619/forget-the-iphonethe-ipod-touch-is-good-enough">95 percent</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/399619/forget-the-iphonethe-ipod-touch-is-good-enough">App Store applications</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/399619/forget-the-iphonethe-ipod-touch-is-good-enough">work with the iPod touch</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E0C803D1-FA7E-48A6-B51F-5CACC34BEBBE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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