The iPod Touch
IPod Touch
While
not an iPod, the iPhone which has become widely popular included a
fully featured player with a large screen, flash memory and a wide
variety of bells and whistles. The form of the iPhone was so popular
that Apple decided it could also sell an iPod based upon the iPhone.
The iPod Touch is this creation. The Touch offers those that like the
touch screen of the iPhone as the user interface for this music
player. In fact, the Touch looks pretty much identical to the iPhone
and while it doesn’t have many of the iPhone features it is less
costly and does not require a phone contract. The Touch also offers
video playback and wifi including the Safari browser which makes it
easy to connect to iTunes and download music directly wirelessly to
your Touch. Storage for the Touch comes in either 8 GB, 16 GB or 32
GB flash memory making it solid state.
There
is a second generation of the iPod Touch, however the styling for the
most part has stayed the same (a slight tapering of the back). The 2G
Touch offers additional features such as Nike+ functionality, a built
in speaker and buttons to control volume.