Microphone for iPod Touch 2nd Gen

 

 

One of the difference between an iPhone and an Ipod Touch is that one device has a Microphone, which is what the iPhone have. It would’ve been nice if the iPod Touch had a microphone, but apple didn’t use this feature for it. Well, there is no turning back, but don’t fret, there is a way you can have a mic for your Ipod Touch: External Microphone!

Apple have made it’s an microphone, and it comes in form of an earphone. There are two headsets that gives you a mic. The In-Ear-Headphones, looks promising, but it cost $79.00. Ouch, that’s no good in today’s U.S’s economy, this headphone is expensive(which doesn’t affect the product specs)! And then, there is the Apple Earphones with Remote and mic,  which cost $29.00. I guessing that it is very very great since it cost more than the mic I bought, but who knows.

After reading and searching post, articles, and such on google; I found two great external Micorphones for the Ipod touch. Philips iPhone Microphone Adapter, works with iPod touch (2nd Gen), for $9.99! Sold in Target stores only, I checked mine out, but there isn’t any. I’ve heard that the cables were long. As of now, I try to look for it on Target’s Websites, but it’s nowhere to be found! . Well, you can try finding it on eBay or Amazon.

And so, I have bought an external microphone for the Ipod Touch, Griffin SmartTalk Headphone adapter…, Twelve bucks! Works with iPhone 1g. I haven’t used it much, but when I use it to record stuff auditorilly it was pretty great, and I enjoy using it. It has a clip, so you can shorten the cable.

 

And so, those are the microphones. Now, I’ll describe the Apps that works with Micrphones on your Ipod Touch. They are free.

Shazam – With Wifi and Music filling in the air that surroundes you, you can use this app to track down the music that you fell in love with- which you thought you could only hear it once in your lifetime – , find out what’s it called, who is the artist, and let’s you find it on iTunes, or youtube. But if you’re out in the open, and if there is no wifi around you, you’re screwed. Don’t worry, with an App that can record, and play it again, you can find out your chosen song.

iTalk – Turns your Ipod Touch into a recorder. The sound quality is great, but I’m not sure if it can pick up sounds from a long distant. Maybe it can, maybe not. Anyway, you can record, playback, or upload to your computer(which requires a program for your computer). If you want to use shazam(shazam can’t store sound files) for a song that you want to listen again, but are not within Wifi, you can use iTalk to record the song(longer the better), Upload it on your computer, use your stereo to play the recorder song, and then use the Shazam app(within wifi) to find the song.

Skype – Available for Ipod Touch, most of the reviewers are Iphone users and said it was useless. HAH! We have External mics, now the ipod touch users can use this app. You can make internet calls with wifi, downloading this app is free(because if it cost, then it sucks, this will be explained on this sentence), but you have to by credits to call landline phones. You can make a testing call, which you say something, and it reply back at you. I think this app is alright, I think you can make free calls with only Skype’s phone line. I don’t know much about skype. You could download Textfree Lite go for your Ipodtouch. Still, the iPod touch wasn’t meant to be a cellphone(excluding the text message part)replacement. Plus, I think it can drain up your battery. Oh well.

Fring – Before the official Skype App was released, there was fringe, which could make Skype and SIP call. It works like the Skype App, but there is more feature. I don’t know much about it, but I prefer Skype.

Ocarina – An ocarina. It works with iPodTouch, and you can blow with an external mic to play it. It’s all right.

Those are the apps I found so far. After leaving a nubile state of being an Ipod Touch owner, I thought using a Microphone would never happened. I think this is the thought every Ipod Touch owner have. Therefore we have very little number of Apps that doesn’t use Mic for the iPt. If not, then there is not much use for the mic. Still, I could say that very little percentage of ipt owner knows about this stuff. Dose the average joe doesn’t like to go beyond and stay on ground level along with millions? If one company revealed this “secret” to the mainstream minds, would the company be popular? If they started producing and selling their own Mic, would they be rich?

Either way, there is a way you can use a Microphone for your Ipod Touch.

Anyway, what’s the deal with prices that ends with 99 cents? Really, it’s a stupid and greedy idea, and it hardly makes a difference. Oh, you decided to be so nice, that you took off a damn penny for us to buy. What the? Whenver I see a price that cost $10.99, I focus on what’s on the left side of the decimal. Then when I see the right, it read 99 cents. Well what a mood breaker,  why not make the price $11.00 and not break my spirit? Any business that dose this should be called an loser.-_- oh well.

How do you take a screen shot on you iphone/ipodtouch? Hold the sleep and the home button at the same time, it will take a picture like a camera. Then just email it to your inbox, and download it from your computer.

 

 

Resource:

http://www.fring.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8168&page=2

http://www.ipodtouchfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=104329&page=7