Like many Apple products, iPod Touch has a sleek, slim design (only 8.5mm thick) and is pocket-sized for portability. It comes with a razor-sharp 3.5-inch widescreen color display with a Multi-Touch interface that lets you scroll through on-screen menus with your fingers to find what you’re looking for. The interface is customizable so you can arrange your apps in the order you want them to appear, the Home button will quickly take you back to the main screen.
As an MP3 player, this device allows storage of up to 14,000 songs and gives you up to 30 hours of music playback time. It has some cool new features: Genius Mixes, where Genius automatically creates mixes based on the similarity of songs available in the device library, Genius Playlist finds songs on your device that go well with the song you’re listening to and creates a list playback of these songs, Shake to Shuffle means exactly that, you physically shake your iPod Touch and it randomly plays a different song in the library, Cover Flow is a cool feature that lets you flip through your music by album art, you can tap the album cover and will open to display a list of tracks. The iPod Touch’s built-in Wi-Fi capabilities give you direct access to iTunes and you can purchase and download songs, movies, podcasts, audiobooks, and more. in that. It also has Bluetooth capabilities so you can, for example, pair it with Bluetooth stereo headphones for wireless listening.
You can watch your downloaded movies, favorite TV shows or video podcasts on the crisp widescreen; iPod Touch can store up to 80 hours of video for your viewing pleasure. On-screen controls allow you to play or pause or adjust the volume, these on-screen controls can be brought up on the screen simply by touching the screen. You can get access to Itunes to buy or rent movies and TV shows that can be downloaded instantly.
There can never be a dull moment with the iPod Touch, for the avid gamer the App Store has thousands of downloadable games, the store also offers over 75,000 amazing apps, simply browse and select from the various categories on offer, you can also use the cool feature to get app recommendations that might interest you. Apple makes sure that you don’t miss out on the social media scene with this device as there are apps for popular social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Yahoo Messenger, etc.
You can sync your device with iTunes on your Mac or PC and download music, movies, audiobooks, video podcasts and more, you can also sync email contacts.
The new iPod touch has been significantly improved over the last version, apps now load faster and web pages load in a fraction of the time, iPod Touch uses the Safari web browser which is the most advanced web browser for portable devices. It has built-in 802.11b/g wireless technology and can detect any wireless network within range, it stores network passwords so you don’t have to enter the password every time you need to access a network you’ve accessed before. You can browse the web, download, view and send email, watch YouTube clips, and do most of the other things you can do on your home PC—you can even sync bookmarks from your Mac or PC so you can access your favorite websites.
A new feature known as voice control gives you the ability to control music playback with voice commands. You say it and iPod touch plays, shuffles, pauses or names it, Say and Play feature lets you ask iPod touch to play a specific song by naming the artist of the song and it will play it, you can ask tells which song is playing and it will tell you, tell it to play your favorite album, artist or playlist and it will.
With the map feature, you get accurate maps and directions to your destinations, with up-to-date traffic information.
Use Nike+ to track your workouts and set exercise goals.
It will help you remember things that you might otherwise forget during the busy day. Voice Memos lets you record notes to yourself: your shopping list, an action plan, or a reminder to schedule a doctor’s appointment. You can also edit and share your notes, and for those avid readers, the iPod Touch can be used to download and read Amazon Kindle books!
The iPod Touch has so many things that make it so attractive, the latest versions (32 GB and 64 GB) have so many new and useful features that it will be difficult to resist buying one, the iPod Touch is a device that can be described as a combination of iPod , Pocket Computer and Portable Game Player. A highly recommended gadget for those who live life in the fast lane.