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iPod touch is a great iPod, a great pocket computer, and a great portable game player. Listen to a mix of songs automatically put together by the new Genius Mixes feature. Watch a movie. Surf the web. View rich HTML email. Find your location and get directions with Google Maps. Discover games and apps you’re sure to love with new Genius recommendations for apps. And since iPod touch now comes with the latest 3.1 software already installed, you can start using fun, convenient features right out of the box.
iPod touch is a great iPod, a great pocket computer, and a great portable game player. Click to enlarge. |
Genius Mixes creates multiple mixes you’ll love. |
Give iPod touch a shake to shuffle to a different song in your music library. |
Next-Level Fun: The New iPod touch
Music
Flick through your albums. Listen to a unique mix created just for you. Or watch the video for your favorite song. With iPod touch, it’s more than just hearing your music.
Cover Flow
What a song does for your ears, Cover Flow on iPod touch does for your eyes and fingers. It’s a virtual party for the senses. Turn iPod touch on its side and glide through your music by album art with the flick of your finger. Tap an album cover to flip it over and display a track list. Tap again to start the music.
Genius Mixes
Now the Genius feature is even more powerful. Introducing Genius Mixes. All you do is sync iPod touch to iTunes, and Genius automatically searches your library to find songs that sound great together. Then it creates multiple mixes you’ll love. These mixes are like channels programmed entirely with your music.
Genius Playlists
Say you’re listening to a song you really like and want to hear other tracks that go great with it. The Genius feature finds other songs on your iPod touch that sound great with the one you were listening to and makes a Genius playlist for you. Listen to the playlist right away, save it for later, or even refresh it and give it another go. Count on Genius to create a mix you wouldn’t have thought of yourself.
Shake to Shuffle
Shake things up a bit. Musically speaking, that is. The next time you’re listening to your tunes, turn on Shake to Shuffle, then give iPod touch a shake to shuffle to a different song in your music library.
iTunes
Fill your iPod touch with songs and music videos from your iTunes library on your computer. Or buy and download new music on your iPod touch when you access iTunes over Wi-Fi. Songs you purchase on iPod touch transfer to your Mac or PC the next time you connect iPod touch to your computer.
Bluetooth
Look, no cables. iPod touch includes the iPhone 3.1 software, so you can pair Bluetooth stereo headphones with it. Keep your iPod in your bag or charging on your desk across the room and still listen to your music.
Carry hours of video with you and watch it on the crisp 3.5-inch color widescreen display. |
With iTunes on your iPod touch and a Wi-Fi connection, you can buy movies and TV shows on the fly. |
Movies + TV shows
A feature film. A video podcast. Your favorite TV show. Now appearing on a subway train or a plane near you.
Widescreen Viewing
Carry hours of video with you and watch it on the crisp 3.5-inch color widescreen display. Shop the iTunes Store and choose from thousands of movies, TV shows, and video podcasts to load up your iPod touch. From Hollywood blockbusters to independent favorites, there’s something for everyone. Download and watch movies with a few taps. Prefer TV shows? Get a single episode or an entire season’s worth all at once.
Onscreen Controls
While watching your video, tap the display to bring up the onscreen controls. You can play or pause, view by chapter, and adjust the volume. You can also use the volume controls on the left side of iPod touch. Want to switch between widescreen and full screen? Simply tap the display twice.
iTunes
Need some entertainment for your next flight or road trip? With iTunes on your iPod touch and a Wi-Fi connection, you can buy movies and TV shows on the fly. You can also rent movies, in case you’re not sure if that flick is a keeper. And of course, you can purchase movies and TV shows on your Mac or PC, then sync them to your iPod touch.
App Store
Shop the App Store and discover over 75,000 apps that let you do even more with your iPod touch. Browse apps in categories from games to lifestyle, social networking to education, and more.
Discover apps in categories from games to lifestyle, social networking to education, and more. |
The built-in Wi-Fi capability in iPod touch gives you access to the iTunes Store anywhere, anytime. |
Browse Apps
Shop the App Store a number of ways. Tap Featured and get a list of new apps and to see what’s hot. Peruse by category. Check out the Top 25 apps. Or if you know exactly what app you’re looking for, find it by doing a quick search.
Genius Recommendations for Apps
There are tens of thousands of apps in the App Store, with more added every day. A new feature of iPod touch makes finding cool new apps even easier. It’s Genius for apps, and it works just like Genius for your music. Tap the Genius icon and get recommendations for apps that you might like based on apps you and others have downloaded.
Download Apps
When you find an app you want, buy and download it wirelessly to your iPod touch from anywhere over Wi-Fi, and start using it right away.
Update Apps
iPod touch tells you whenever an app update is available, so you’ll always have the latest versions of your favorite apps.
iTunes
Discover and download new music, movies, TV shows, and audiobooks with iTunes on your iPod touch.
Shop Anytime, Anywhere
The built-in Wi-Fi capability in iPod touch gives you access to the iTunes Store, where you can choose from millions of high- quality iTunes Plus songs and thousands of movies, TV shows, audiobooks, and free podcasts and iTunes U lectures. Browse New Releases, Top Tens, and Genres. Or find exactly what you’re looking for by typing in a quick search. Play a preview of any song or video, then tap once to buy it. Not sure if that movie is worth owning? Just rent it. Everything you buy on iPod touch is the same price you pay on the iTunes Store on your computer.
Sync with iTunes
When you connect iPod touch to your computer, the music, movies, TV shows, audiobooks, and podcasts you downloaded on the go sync to your iTunes library on your Mac or PC. If you’ve partially downloaded something on iPod touch, your computer completes the download automatically.
Photos
With storage for up to 90,000 of your favorite photos, iPod touch lets you flick through and share all those remember-that-day moments.
Share Photos
Show thousands of photos from the palm of your hand. Flick to scroll through thumbnails. Tap to view full screen. Play slideshows, complete with music and transitions. Email a photo to a friend or share it in a MobileMe Gallery.
With storage for up to 90,000 of your favorite photos, iPod touch lets you flick through and share all those remember-that-day moments. |
Save Photos
If you receive a great image in an email, save it to your photo library on iPod touch. Once there, it acts just like any other photo. You can set it as your wallpaper, share it on the web, or pass it on.
Sync Photos
iPod touch uses iTunes to sync photos you have in iPhoto on a Mac or in Adobe Photoshop Elements and Adobe Photoshop Album on a PC. Just choose which photos or albums to sync to your iPod touch, then you can look at them–and share them–anywhere you go.
Home Screen
Maybe you want Maps as the first app in the second row. Or Mail down in the Dock. Whatever the arrangement, make iPod touch your own with customized Home screens.
Customize Your Home Screen
Arrange the icons on your Home screen any way you want right on iPod touch or from your computer using iTunes 9. Move an app one row up, two apps over, or even to another Home screen. Create up to 11 Home screens for quick access to the games and applications you download from the App Store and to your Safari web clips.
Home Button
No matter where you are on iPod touch, one press of the Home button at the bottom of iPod touch takes you to the main Home screen. You can also take a shortcut from any Home screen back to your main Home screen by pressing the Home button.
Search the entire contents of your iPod touch, all from one place. |
iPod touch features Safari, the most advanced web browser ever on a portable device. |
Spotlight Search
Looking for something? Search the entire contents of your iPod touch, all from one place. On your main Home screen, just swipe to the right to bring up Spotlight. Once you start typing, Spotlight begins searching all of your music, videos, contacts, email, calendars, notes, and even your audiobooks and podcasts.
Add Apps and Web Clips
Whenever you download an application from the App Store, a new icon appears on your Home screen. And if you check the same websites every day, just create web clips. They appear on your Home screen, and you can access the sites directly with a single tap.
Safari
iPod touch features Safari, the most advanced web browser ever on a portable device. See the web in your hands the same way you see it on a computer. All you need is a Wi-Fi connection.
Browse Anywhere
iPod touch is the only iPod with built-in wireless access to the web. Whenever you’re connected via Wi-Fi, you can access your favorite websites to read news, check scores, pay bills, and go shopping. And if you’re using the new 32 GB or 64 GB iPod touch, you’ll notice that web pages load even faster than before.
Search the Web
iPod touch syncs your bookmarks from your PC or Mac, so you can access your favorite sites quickly. It has Google and Yahoo! search built in, so it’s easy to find what you’re looking for on the web.
Web Clips
If you check a website frequently–a favorite newspaper, blog, or sports site–why not create a Home screen icon, or web clip, for it? Make web clips with Safari, and your favorite sites are always just a tap away.
Zoom
Get a closer look at any web page by zooming in and out with a tap or a pinch of the Multi-Touch display. View websites in portrait or landscape. Rotate iPod touch 90 degrees and the web page rotates, too.
mail on iPod touch looks and works just like email on your computer. |
With Maps and a Wi-Fi connection, you can get directions, find local businesses, and check traffic. |
Mail
Email on iPod touch looks and works just like email on your computer. And it works with the email accounts you already have.
View Messages and Attachments
iPod touch supports rich HTML email, so images and photos appear alongside text. And you see email attachments in their original formats, not stripped-down versions. Rotate, zoom, and pan in more than a dozen standard file and image formats, including PDF; Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; and iWork.
Access All Your Accounts
Access your email from popular providers–including MobileMe, Google Gmail, Microsoft Exchange, Yahoo! Mail, and AOL–and most industry-standard IMAP and POP mail systems.
Compose Instantly
iPod touch recognizes email addresses in different applications. If you run across an email address on a web page or a map listing, for example, just tap it and iPod touch opens a new message and addresses it for you.
Type Smart
With its built-in dictionary,* the intelligent iPod touch keyboard predicts and suggests words as you type, making it fast and easy to write email. And when you rotate iPod touch on its side, the keyboard instantly switches from portrait to landscape for larger keys and more room to type.
Search Your Inbox
No need to scroll through message after message in your inbox looking for the right one. A quick downward flick brings up a search field that lets you find email by sender, recipient, subject, or all headers.
Maps
Find your way and a place to eat. With Maps and a Wi-Fi connection, you can get directions, find local businesses, and check traffic.
Find Yourself
iPod touch finds your location using known Wi-Fi hotspots. It also finds points of interest by keyword: Search for coffee and iPod touch shows you cafes nearby.
Get Directions
Just type in an address and get directions from wherever you are. Choose the method of transportation–car, public transit, or on foot–and view a list of turn-by-turn directions. See a highlighted map route with estimated travel time. You can also mark specific locations and find the best route between them.
Explore and share your favorite YouTube clips. |
Track your workouts, set goals, and challenge friends with Nike+.Click to enlarge. |
With Voice Memos, you can record any audio you want using the Apple Earphones with Remote and Mic or an external mic. |
Switch Map Views
Just like Google Maps on your computer, Maps on iPod touch lets you switch between views of Google map data, satellite images, and a hybrid of both. Multi-Touch makes the difference. Tap to zoom, pan, and change your view on the move.
See Traffic
Maps on iPod touch shows you live traffic information, indicating traffic speed along your route in easy-to-read green, red, and yellow highlights.
YouTube
Skateboarding moves gone wrong. Hilarious commercials from another country. Whatever the video, iPod touch has your YouTube addiction covered.
Share from Anywhere
Email your favorite videos to your favorite people. Tap Share on any YouTube video detail page and iPod touch creates an email with the video link already in it.
Search YouTube
Explore Featured, Most Viewed, Most Recent, and Top Rated videos. Or search for the video you want using a keyword search. Once you find what you’re looking for, bookmark it to watch later.
Nike + iPod Compatibility
Rock out your workout. iPod touch has built-in support for Nike + iPod. It’s music and motivation rolled into one.
Tune Your Run
iPod touch includes built-in Nike + iPod support. Just slip the Nike + iPod Sensor (available separately) into your Nike+ shoe and start your run. The sensor communicates wirelessly with your iPod touch, tracking your time, distance, and calories burned. It even gives you voice feedback on your progress.
Tune Your Cardio Workout
This feature also works with new cardio equipment available in many fitness centers. Just look for Nike + iPod compatible treadmills, ellipticals, stair steppers, and stationary bikes.
Sync with nikeplus.com
When you get back to your computer, sync your iPod touch with iTunes and transfer your exercise data to nikeplus.com, where you can track your workouts, set goals, and challenge friends.
Voice Memos
You might have a good memory. But sometimes, it’s nice to have a backup. With Voice Memos, you can record little (and big) bits of information to your iPod touch.
Record Memos (or Any Audio)
Record a simple to-do, your next big idea, or a bet between you and your friend. With Voice Memos, you can record any audio you want using the Apple Earphones with Remote and Mic or an external mic. Voice Memos will record even when you’re using your iPod touch to do things such as checking email or surfing the web.
Edit Memos
You can trim recorded memos right on iPod touch. That way, you keep only what you need.
Manage Memos
Keep all your memos organized by choosing labels from a predefined list or by creating custom labels.
Share Memos
Send memos to your friends and colleagues via email. Memos you record on iPod touch sync back to your Mac or PC via iTunes, so you can share them later.
Play the latest head-to-head games with a friend–whether your friend is sitting next to you or across the country. |
Want more room to type? Rotate iPod touch to landscape to use a larger keyboard in Mail, Notes, and Safari. |
Download movies, TV shows, music videos, and audiobooks over Wi-Fi from the iTunes Store on iPod touch. |
More Features
iPod touch comes with the latest software already installed. And you also get convenient apps including Contacts, Calendar, Notes, Stocks, and Weather.
iPhone 3.1 Software Features
Genius Mixes
This new feature acts as your personal DJ, searching your iTunes library to find songs that go great together, then organizing them into mixes you’ll love. All automatically.
Genius Recommendations for Apps
With thousands of apps in the App Store, how do you find cool new ones? Let Genius help. It looks at the apps you’re using and recommends others you might like.
Peer-to-Peer Gaming
Play the latest head-to-head games with a friend–whether your friend is sitting next to you or across the country.
Buy Movies, TV Shows, and Audiobooks via Wi-Fi
Download movies, TV shows, music videos, and audiobooks over Wi-Fi from the iTunes Store on iPod touch.
Landscape Keyboard
Want more room to type? Rotate iPod touch to landscape to use a larger keyboard in Mail, Notes, and Safari.
Cut, Copy & Paste
Cut, copy, and paste words and photos, even between applications. Copy and paste images and content from the web, too.
Spotlight Search
Find what you’re looking for across your iPod touch, all from one convenient place. Spotlight searches all your contacts, email, calendars, and notes, as well as your music and video.
Automatic Wi-Fi Login
Log in to a Wi-Fi hotspot and iPod touch remembers your user name and password the next time you connect.
Accessibility
The new iPod touch comes with standard accessibility features that help people with disabilities experience the fun of iPod touch.
Stereo Bluetooth
Enjoy music and other audio wirelessly. Pair your iPod touch with compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones.
Shake to Shuffle
Just give your iPod touch a shake, and it shuffles to a different song in your music library. You’ll always be surprised by what you hear.
Parental Controls
Decide what music, videos, and apps your kids can access.
Stocks on iPod touch shows you performance information for any stock you choose. |
Check worldwide weather at home or away. |
Pioneering hardware technology built into iPod touch is how you’re able to flick, tap, and pinch. |
iPod touch also includes these useful apps:
Calendar
Calendar works with Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft Outlook, iCal, MobileMe, and Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync for enterprise. Add events. Set reminder alerts. Subscribe to calendars for things such as national holidays and sports schedules.
Contacts
Put names, email addresses, phone numbers, and more at your fingertips. Sync contacts on your Mac or PC to iPod touch using iTunes. Add new contacts on the go with a tap.
Notes
Forget the pen and paper. Use Notes on iPod touch to write yourself a quick note and keep important information on hand. A built-in email function lets you send notes to yourself or others.
Stocks
Stocks on iPod touch shows you performance information for any stock you choose. When you want more details about a stock’s performance, tap the Y! for instant access to Yahoo! Finance.
Weather
Check worldwide weather at home or away. Add the cities you want, then flick back and forth to get six-day forecasts for each. Tap the Y! to open a Yahoo! city guide that shows you what’s happening, rain or shine.
Calculator
Calculator on iPod touch does double duty. In portrait mode, you can use Calculator for simple calculations. Rotate iPod touch to landscape, and it becomes a sophisticated scientific calculator.
iPod touch Technology
Pioneering hardware technology built into iPod touch is how you’re able to flick, tap, and pinch. It’s what makes that racing game feel so real. It’s why you’re able to tweet what you just overheard in the cafe. And it’s the reason iPod touch is the most amazing iPod you’ll ever own.
Multi-Touch
The Multi-Touch display layers a protective shield over a capacitive panel that senses your touch using electrical fields. It then transmits that information to the LCD screen below it. So you can glide through albums with Cover Flow, flick through photos and enlarge them with a pinch, zoom in and out on a section of a web page, and control game elements precisely.
Accelerometer
The accelerometer inside iPod touch allows it to detect when you rotate iPod touch from portrait to landscape, then automatically changes the contents of the display. The accelerometer really shines when you play games, because it immerses you in the action. It’s perfect for racing games, where your entire iPod touch acts as a steering wheel, and for tap-and-tilt games such as Rolando, in which your movements control the action.
Wireless
iPod touch has built-in support for 802.11b/g wireless technology. That means you can get online anywhere there’s Wi-Fi. Send email from a coffee shop. Surf the web at the airport. Shop for games from your couch. Browse, buy, and download music and more from the iTunes Store. iPod touch locates nearby wireless hotspots, including protected networks. If you’ve never used a particular network, Wireless Icon it asks you to enter a password the first time, and it remembers the password from then on. So the next time you’re within range, it connects automatically.
Bluetooth
Bluetooth is a form of wireless technology that lets you use devices without the hassle of cables or wires. What does that mean for iPod touch? It means you can use iPod touch with Bluetooth headphones and listen to your music no matter where in the room your iPod touch is. So lounge on your bed, while your iPod touch charges on your desk. Bluetooth on iPod touch is also great for peer-to-peer gaming.
Design
iPod touch is as remarkable outside as it is inside. Holding one is all the proof you need. With its curved design, iPod touch is a mere 8.5 mm thin. Its optical glass front and polished stainless steel back feel sleek and smooth in your hand. Turn it on, and instantly you’re impressed by the brilliant 3.5-inch display. iPod touch is the perfect combination of stunning design and revolutionary technology–the total, beautiful package.
Read Kindle books on your iPod touch. |
Read Kindle Books on the iPod touch
- No Kindle required.
- Get the best reading experience available on your iPhone or iPod touch.
- Access your Kindle books even if you don’t have your Kindle with you.
- Automatically synchronizes your last page read between devices with Amazon Whispersync.
- Adjust the text size, add bookmarks, and view the annotations you created on your Kindle.
- Don’t have a Kindle? Get yours here.
Shop for Books on the Kindle Store on Your iPod touch
- Buy a book from the Kindle Store, optimized for Safari, on your iPod touch or iPhone and get it auto-delivered wirelessly.
- Search and browse more than 275,000 books, including more than 107 of 112 New York Times bestsellers.
- Find New York Times bestsellers and new releases for $9.99, unless marked otherwise.
- Get free book samples; read the first chapter for free before you decide to buy.
- Books you purchase also can be read on a Kindle.
- Kindle newspapers, magazines, and blogs are not currently available on the iPod touch or iPhone.
What’s in the Box
Apple iPod touch 8 GB (3rd Generation), standard Apple Earphones, USB 2.0 cable, Dock adapter, Quick Start guide more info
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Fun Product
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I enjoy using the touch to surf and to manage my e-mail while watching tv or sitting at the kitchen table. I loaded Skype and can call all over the world very inexpensively
Happy Granma
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I am enjoying my Ipod for a challenged granma! Ease of learning, even though I had to get help from my granddaughter.
I am enjoying the music and learning how to down load items!
Excellente!!! Just what I was looking for
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I’m a new IPod Touch user and I’m impressed with this product. Excellent response, thousand of apps, stylish, has everything you need on a player. Impressive sensitive touch!!
Buy it!! Don’t doubt about it.
The only “cons” is the battery, the lack of battery is an issue in apple products, I believe in all of them because I also bought several IPod’s nano’s and in all the issue was the lack of a durable battery.
Hope’s my review helps u, Bye.
A Great PMP
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I have now had the iPod touch for about 2 weeks and I really enjoy using it! It has incredible features, the screen looks fabulous, and there’s enough space in it to put 5 times the amount of music I currently own! Own of the features that I found really helpful was the Windows compatibility, because most of my music was on a Windows computer which was transferred flawlessly from the PC iTunes program. I have found so many fun apps and also many apps, such as Rhapsody, which I find myself using constantly to listen to songs I don’t own. One unfortunate thing that seems to be a common trait in the iPod touch (I have used two and both had this flaw) is that there is space between the screen and the sides, which, when you are in a dark room, makes the light from the screen visible through those cracks. This may not bother you, but I am very picky about these kind of things and I find it a bit annoying when watching a video in a dark room; it’s certainly not enough to make me give back the iPod but it is something to think about if that kind of thing bothers you.
The apps, the web browser and iTunes on the iPod are all features which I find myself using a lot. The apps, with more than 100,000, are so varied and extensive in choice, you can find apps which turn your iPod touch into everything from a practical alarm clock to, my personal favorite, a fart machine. Also, with the new processor, the speed difference loading games is very noticeable as I have a friend with an iPhone who, when I began playing a game, immediately exclaimed, “Wow! Yours is so fast!” The web browser is a great, fast browser and it loads complex pages in very little time. If you don’t have a computer with you, this is a great alternative. iTunes on the iPod is one of the coolest things ever, as I use it mainly for podcasts which you can download directly onto the Touch. I have also used it to download a TV show, which looked fantastic on the 480:320 screen. Music quality, with myself not being an audiophile, sounds great to me, even on the included earphones with which many people seem to have a problem. The remote control on the included earphones is extremely helpful if you do not want to take the iPod out of your pocket.
I love my iPod touch. It is a great music, video, and game player, and with such an extensive app store there are so many uses for it. It can even send free text messages to cell phones! I highly suggest it for everyone who wants a product which, as everyone seems to say, does everything you need and more!
Huge Dissapointment
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
Friends
Let me say this Ipod was a major user dissapointment experinece. Step 1. I charged the Ipod. Step 2. I started the Ipod only to find that until Itunes is downloaded to your computer, and you register the device, it is basically a brick, won’t work, will not do any anything. It just diplays the whining message to load Itunes. I wanted to return it right there but is was a gift so I proceeded. After much time it reported that Itunes was loaded. After that the sync did not work. To be frank, Apple should pay us to accept this product push software. It’s going back. I’ve had a PC for 25 years and never felt this put upon. To add insult to injury my Wifi is in the same room with me and loading web pages was painfully slow. That was when it actually recognized the node. The only plus was it is slim and feels good in your hand. If you actually want function, steer clear.
John
Super great MP3 player with many other useful functions
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Extremely easy to use. Always used MSFT OS/applications and been used to think “the funky microsoft way”. It took me less than 1 minutes to figure out how to navigate and another 2 minutes to get it fully functional (WiFi, sync iTunes, e-mail etc.)
Now when it works with Spotify it sure is a “killer app”.
//Per
Perfection
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
The Apple I Touch is near perfection. This is my first Apple product; I have stayed away from their computers because they are ridiculously overpriced. Just because they have cult status it doesn’t mean you need to pay 3 times as much for a computer. There is a huge reason why they only have a 5 percent market share in computers. I also loathe Apple’s proprietary operating systems and overpriced peripherals; if you hate Microsoft’s monopoly just look at Apple’s pricing for computers and accessories.
The IPods are different; they are the best mp3 players on the market; and paying a little extra is worth the money. But stay away from the way overpriced Apple brand accessories; Griffin and others make excellent after market add-ons at much more reasonable prices.
Fun product
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This is a fun little toy!!! My husband loves it and I gave it to him for his birthday. He liked it so much and showed me how much fun you can have with it as well has having a calender to keep track of what you are doing each day, an alarm to wake you up or remind you of upcoming events, that I had him buy me one for my birthday. It is in the mail as I speak.
Great buy
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Before I bought the 32 GB 3rd Gen. I had a 100 GB Zune. I was pleased with it, but it took way to long to upload music/videos to it. It took on average an hour to load one video onto my Zune, where as the same video takes only 1-3 min. to put on my Itouch. The video quality is great, and is very user friendly when it comes to browsing through the menus. I watch a lot of music videos, so one thing that I have noticed with the ITouch, is if you’re watching a video and say you want to adjust the brightness, or anything outside of the video. As soon as you leave the video/audio stops, and when you go back to watch the video you either have to search for the video or scroll clear through the list to find it again… All in all, this is a great buy very fast, clean, easy to use.
This has almost replaced my laptop
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
This has almost replaced my laptop. It’s an amazing little ‘pocket computer’, and can keep you in touch while on the road.
I gave it 4 stars because of the lack of a camera, but that’s my only beef with it.
I would recommend this to anyone.
It works well with bluetooth headphones.
Apple has impressed me
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This was the first apple product I have ever bought (I am a PC kind of guy), and I am VERY impressed by it. I did a lot of research, comparing this to Microsoft’s HD Zune, and in the end, the iPod Touch was the way to go, with faster internet browsing and applications, better apps, and larger screen. I am not disappointed with my choice at all. I use my iPod every day now and it has been great having mobile internet and email. If you are debating on whether or not to get it, get it because there is not a better touchscreen media player like this out there.
iPod Touch 32 GB
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I bought this for my daughter and she started using it immediately after it arrived. She loves it.
A Palm user’s view of the iPod Touch
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I’ve been a heavy Palm user for some years now. Primarily I used my Palm TX as an eBook reader. That may seem pretty specialized, but I read a lot, and the Palm gave me a large selection of books and magazines in a package that was smaller and easier to handle than a single paperback. You’d think I’d be the Kindle’s target audience, except that the Kindle is larger than what I want in an eBook reader.
I had a few other applications I used regularly, like a RPN calculator and a shopping-list utility. I played a few games on it, but nothing terribly memorable. What I did not use it for was the traditional “day planner” functionality that first sold PDAs. I kept addresses in it, but rarely needed them. The TX has a wireless web browser, but I gave up on it rather quickly. It simply could not handle the vast majority of internet pages at all, let alone gracefully.
Gradually, I talked myself into purchasing an iPod Touch. The truly functional web browser than sold the iPhone was sexy, but I didn’t want to pay an iPhone’s monthly fee. Sure, I have a cell phone, but I’m on an annualized prepaid plan because I spend less than $50 in air time a year, let alone $70 / month. Amazon now had a Kindle app for the iPhone / Touch, which meant I’d have a larger selection of books. The app store ads demonstrated the very large software support available for the iPhone / Touch. And Apple had decided that gaming was going to be a major focus for the Touch, which was quite different from the fringe areas that games always occupied for the Palm.
I’ve been using it for 3 weeks now, and I can say without question I made the right decision.
It’s easier to use as an eBook reader. The Kindle reader is seamlessly integrated with Amazon, so it’s trivial to get new books on the Touch, where it was a multi-step mild headache to do so with the Palm. The Touch is smaller and lighter, and the touch sensor is much more sensitive than the Palm’s. The touch screen is capacitance rather than pressure based, so a light brush registers, where the Palm needed a definite tap, and frankly required the hard buttons to turn pages reliably.
My main regret in this area is that Amazon’s Kindle app is so dead-set on letting me read only Amazon books. There’s simply no way to transfer unprotected mobi-format books from other sources, unlike the physical Kindle device. Yes, I know this can be circumvented with Jailbreaking, but that’s not available for 3rd generation Touches yet, and shouldn’t really be necessary anyway. Other Touch applications that need to transfer files have found a way.
This has pushed me to using Stanza for all non-Amazon books, and I’ve really come it like it. It’s just as seamlessly integrated with online book sources as the Kindle app, including the electronic book store I’d used upon until now, and some free sources for classic works like Feedbooks. Mobipocket, on which Kindle is based, was the best reader for the Palm, but frankly Stanza is even more polished.
The Touch really works as a web browser. I’m an information junkie. I like looking things up and chasing down stray threads. My pattern used to be that I’d think of something I wanted to know, and I’d make a mental note to look it up on the web later, and then I’d forget. Then I’d think of it again later, and I’d be annoyed that I hadn’t looked earlier. Now the Touch is almost always in reach, and I simply look it up immediately. You wouldn’t think the convenience factor would be that important, but in practice it’s been great. It gracefully handles pages that are expecting much larger, higher-resolution displays.
It’s in web browsing that the sloppiness of the human finger as a pointer is most evident. More than once I’ve wanted to select a specific block of text, such as in a search dialog, and found it difficult or impossible because the end of my finger is just a big, fat blob compared to a stylus or a mouse cursor. Still, I can see how the advantages of abandoning the stylus have outweighed the drawbacks.
The app store drives me a little crazy. It’s great that there is so much software available, and that it’s so easy to transfer to the Touch. While you can certainly transfer apps via iTunes, it’s so much easier to just find it on the Touch directly and tell it to install. The problem is that it’s very, very difficult to sift through that software, and that even the PC version of iTunes provides inadequate tools to search through it.
It’s great that iTunes has Amazon-style user reviews, but you can’t see the overall score for something on the search page, and you can’t sort your search results by rating. And contrary to what I had heard, it’s fairly obvious that Apple isn’t acting as a draconian gatekeeper, since so much of it is, to be blunt, junk. This not to say good software doesn’t exist. It’s just that there’s so much poor-to-iffy software hiding it.
This should be understood to be praising with faint damnation. The iPod Touch is a really slick device. It’s a first-rate PDA, eBook reader, and web browsing device. And oh, it plays music, too.
- Gus
my first apple product
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
The Apple Ipod Touch is head and shoulders above any other mp3 players that I’ve either owned or used before. The only drawback is that it is an Apple product.
I have never been as frustrated as I was last week trying to transfer music files onto this thing. Why does Apple have to be so stubbornly restrictive with the file type that their products use? Every other mp3 player on the market works with just about every music file type – except for Apple products that only use AAC files. I have about 150 music albums on my harddrive that all had to be converted to the Apple specified file, it took about 4 hours to convert the first 40 albums, after that I just gave up.
Come on Apple, stop being such a inflexible company and let your products work with all music files.
Why haven’t they included an FM radio player? With the Touch you are limited to internet radio stations that are only accessible if you have a wifi connection.
I’ve had this thing about a month and will be buying a screen protector and a case as the screen has already got a scratch on it and the silver case is looking more like brushed aluminium instead of the shinny chrome when it was new.
That being said, the ipod touch is a great feat of engineering, so many features in such a slim package.
Too good!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This iPod is so addictive! I can’t put it down! Order a stylus to type with.