If an iPod Nano and Apple’s iPhone ever had a kid, it would surely look something like the youngest iPod family member, the iPod Touch. The Touch gets its moniker from its responsive touch screen, the smooth front-side surface that lets you navigate through your music, videos, and photos with a tap or drag of your finger.
While it may have inherited its sensitivity from the iPhone, the Touch gets its stability from the same flash memory that’s inside the Nano. No matter how hard you run or rock out, you’ll probably never hear your music skip. You get about 30 hours of audio playback on a battery charge, or 6 hours of video. Speaking of video, the iPod Touch sports the iPhone’s eye-catching 3.5-inch widescreen display and 480×320 pixel resolution. Flip it sideways to see why it makes movies and TV shows look so good.
Apple gives you three Touches to choose from: an 8-gigabyte model, a 32-gigabyte version, or one that can store 64 gigs of your favorite stuff. That’s 1,750 songs or 10 hours of iPod-friendly video on the 8 GB Touch; 7,000 songs or 40 hours of video on the 32 GB model; and a relatively whopping 14,000 songs and 80 hours of video on the big 64-gigabyte model.
But the Touch is much more than just a pretty face. In addition to all its regular iPod capabilities, like listening to music or showing off your latest photos, this iPod can reach right out and touch the Internet. Thanks to a built-in Wi-Fi chip and a small-but-powerful version of Apple’s Safari Web browser, you can You use your fingertips to point your way around the Web—or fire up the Touch’s onscreen keyboard when you have to enter text for a Web address or on a page. And where there’s Internet, there’s email, stock-market updates, weather forecasts, and online maps. If that’s not enough, there’s a whole new world of possibilities in the iTunes App Store, where you can customize your iPod with additional software. Whether you’re connected or not, you also get a handy notepad, your personal calendar, and your computer’s address book, too.
If you hate leaving your computer for fear of missing something totally cool posted on YouTube, the popular video-sharing site, the Touch is there for you. This wireless iPod comes with its own one-click link to YouTube so you can keep up with the Web’s funniest videos.
Oh, and one more thing…have you ever been listening to your iPod and wished you could buy even more music right there, no matter where you are? With the Touch (and a wireless network connection), you can. This little Internet iPod can step right up to the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store and search, sample, and snap up tracks over the airwaves.
They may look an awful lot alike, but the iPod Touch and the iPhone have some distinct differences. For one thing, the iPod Touch is not a mobile phone. While this means Touch owners get to skip the AT&T Experience, it also means there’s no ubiquitous cellphone network to use for online fun when your pool of Wi-Fi hotspots runs cold. There’s also no integrated 2-megapixel camera. On the plus side, without the extra hardware inside, the Touch is much more svelte.
They may look an awful lot alike, but the iPod Touch and the iPhone have some distinct differences. For one thing, the iPod Touch is not a mobile phone. While this means Touch owners get to skip the AT&T Experience, it also means there’s no ubiquitous cellphone network to use for online fun when your pool of Wi-Fi hotspots runs cold. There’s also no integrated 2-megapixel camera. On the plus side, without the extra hardware inside, the Touch is much more svelte.
Source of Information : Oreilly - iPod The Missing Manual 8 Edition 2009
While it may have inherited its sensitivity from the iPhone, the Touch gets its stability from the same flash memory that’s inside the Nano. No matter how hard you run or rock out, you’ll probably never hear your music skip. You get about 30 hours of audio playback on a battery charge, or 6 hours of video. Speaking of video, the iPod Touch sports the iPhone’s eye-catching 3.5-inch widescreen display and 480×320 pixel resolution. Flip it sideways to see why it makes movies and TV shows look so good.
Apple gives you three Touches to choose from: an 8-gigabyte model, a 32-gigabyte version, or one that can store 64 gigs of your favorite stuff. That’s 1,750 songs or 10 hours of iPod-friendly video on the 8 GB Touch; 7,000 songs or 40 hours of video on the 32 GB model; and a relatively whopping 14,000 songs and 80 hours of video on the big 64-gigabyte model.
But the Touch is much more than just a pretty face. In addition to all its regular iPod capabilities, like listening to music or showing off your latest photos, this iPod can reach right out and touch the Internet. Thanks to a built-in Wi-Fi chip and a small-but-powerful version of Apple’s Safari Web browser, you can You use your fingertips to point your way around the Web—or fire up the Touch’s onscreen keyboard when you have to enter text for a Web address or on a page. And where there’s Internet, there’s email, stock-market updates, weather forecasts, and online maps. If that’s not enough, there’s a whole new world of possibilities in the iTunes App Store, where you can customize your iPod with additional software. Whether you’re connected or not, you also get a handy notepad, your personal calendar, and your computer’s address book, too.
If you hate leaving your computer for fear of missing something totally cool posted on YouTube, the popular video-sharing site, the Touch is there for you. This wireless iPod comes with its own one-click link to YouTube so you can keep up with the Web’s funniest videos.
Oh, and one more thing…have you ever been listening to your iPod and wished you could buy even more music right there, no matter where you are? With the Touch (and a wireless network connection), you can. This little Internet iPod can step right up to the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store and search, sample, and snap up tracks over the airwaves.
They may look an awful lot alike, but the iPod Touch and the iPhone have some distinct differences. For one thing, the iPod Touch is not a mobile phone. While this means Touch owners get to skip the AT&T Experience, it also means there’s no ubiquitous cellphone network to use for online fun when your pool of Wi-Fi hotspots runs cold. There’s also no integrated 2-megapixel camera. On the plus side, without the extra hardware inside, the Touch is much more svelte.
They may look an awful lot alike, but the iPod Touch and the iPhone have some distinct differences. For one thing, the iPod Touch is not a mobile phone. While this means Touch owners get to skip the AT&T Experience, it also means there’s no ubiquitous cellphone network to use for online fun when your pool of Wi-Fi hotspots runs cold. There’s also no integrated 2-megapixel camera. On the plus side, without the extra hardware inside, the Touch is much more svelte.
Source of Information : Oreilly - iPod The Missing Manual 8 Edition 2009
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