Ahhh.... Ipod Touch. What can I say, it's a great portable media player. People who haven't seen it will be awestruck by the cool and very futuristic like controls or the way you flick and point your finger on the screen. Plays video with its large screen and of course mp3 music files better than the psp and nds. The iPod touch like other iPods has built in index for it's mp3 files you've downloaded to it. Searching by title, artist, or even by album is easily done smoothly like a breeze, with its famous cover flow, you could peruse the albums with cover arts displayed, and scan through like flipping pages from book. Unlike on the nds or psp, you'll have to scan through all your songs to look for a specific title, unless you use a homebrew app like lightmp3 where it builds an index of your mp3 files. For audio quality, its good, so if you already have a psp and don't have extra dough for another device, thats good enough, unless you've got lots of mp3s with you and like to scan through different libraries which will be slow and hard on the psp. On the nds side, mp3 music quality is on the lower quality side, but acceptable for non audiophiles and is even now better with the new moonlight shell.
On the Video capability, for me the psp slightly wins this category, it's scanning by configurable intervals with preview is really cool compared to scanning by dragging the position bar on the ipod. For the nds, its irritating if you try to scan scenes, so slow and its takes like forever.
And lastly, the gaming side. Well, the iPod isn't actually a gaming portable, but with it's powerful processor and graphics processor, it's capable of doing some graphics comparable to the current players in the portable gaming arena. But it will never be like the psp, it can't even shake the grounds of the nds territory. iPod's game graphic details is lower than the psp and above the ps1 area. But one major difference is the frame rates from the nds and psp are far more fluid than the iPod. But some well made racing game actually have a very good frame rate but still not close to psp nor nds. Controls on the iPod is really cool, very ingenious and intuitive style of interacting with the games are unique. Game music is good but I notice that most of them don't have asimple fade in/fade out effect, it's kind of annoying when a background music abruptly stops when scene/stage changes. Sound quality in-game is good, almost cd quality on some few titles. The NDS and PSP games are incomparable to iPods', they're made for games so, they excel in this area. They provide a complete and fulfilling gaming experience.
On the Video capability, for me the psp slightly wins this category, it's scanning by configurable intervals with preview is really cool compared to scanning by dragging the position bar on the ipod. For the nds, its irritating if you try to scan scenes, so slow and its takes like forever.
And lastly, the gaming side. Well, the iPod isn't actually a gaming portable, but with it's powerful processor and graphics processor, it's capable of doing some graphics comparable to the current players in the portable gaming arena. But it will never be like the psp, it can't even shake the grounds of the nds territory. iPod's game graphic details is lower than the psp and above the ps1 area. But one major difference is the frame rates from the nds and psp are far more fluid than the iPod. But some well made racing game actually have a very good frame rate but still not close to psp nor nds. Controls on the iPod is really cool, very ingenious and intuitive style of interacting with the games are unique. Game music is good but I notice that most of them don't have asimple fade in/fade out effect, it's kind of annoying when a background music abruptly stops when scene/stage changes. Sound quality in-game is good, almost cd quality on some few titles. The NDS and PSP games are incomparable to iPods', they're made for games so, they excel in this area. They provide a complete and fulfilling gaming experience.
| Gadget | iPoD | PSP | NDS |
| MP3 audio Quality | *** | *** | ** |
| MP3 searching | *** | * | * |
| Video Quality | *** | *** | * |
| Game Quality | ** | *** | *** |
| Game Graphics | ** | *** | ** |
| Coolness Factor | *** | *** | ** |
