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a photo. Scroll through your songs and videos with a flick. Flip through your library by album artwork with Cover Flow. Watch your movies, TV shows, and photos co...
and the same panoramic screen as the iPhone, as well as a WiFi Internet connection. The iPod touch boasts a “multi-touch” interface, putting all your music and vide...
and the same panoramic screen as the iPhone, as well as a WiFi Internet connection. The iPod touch boasts a &ldquomulti-touch&rdquo interface, putting all your mu...
Apple iPod Touch - 16Gb
iPod touch features the same multi-touch screen technology as iPhone. Pinch to zoom in on
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a photo. Scroll through your songs and videos with a flick. Flip through your library by album artwork with Cover Flow. Watch your movies, TV shows, and photos come alive with bright, vivid color on the 320-by-480-pixel display. Browse the web using Safari and watch YouTube videos on the first iPod with Wi-Fi built in.
Apple iPod Touch - 16Gb
iPod touch features the same multi-touch screen technology as iPhone. Pinch to zoom in on
... more
a photo. Scroll through your songs and videos with a flick. Flip through your library by album artwork with Cover Flow. Watch your movies, TV shows, and photos come alive with bright, vivid color on the 320-by-480-pixel display. Browse the web using Safari and watch YouTube videos on the first iPod with Wi-Fi built in.
APPLE IPOD TOUCH 16GB V2
IPOD TOUCH 16GB NEW Now there's even more to touch! Store up to 3500 songs. watch your
... more
movies. TV shows. and slideshows all on the 3.5' display - Version 2 with new applications! video playback compatible,22 hours battery life. MP4 playback compatible. Direct USB plug in
A review by clra2 on Apple iPod touch 16 GB January 5th, 2008
Author's product rating:
Sound Quality
Excellent
Ease of Use
Very Easy
Look & Design
Excellent
Range of Features
Excellent
Value for Money
Good
Advantages:
sexy, slim design; 3 . 5 inch beautiful, bright touch screen; sound/video quality; safari web browsing
Disadvantages:
pricey, looks fragile, no flash support, low memory capcity
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
Full review
Ok I recently bought an iPod Touch to replace my old iPod Nano because my Nano's batteries were beginning to die. I played around with the Touch a couple of times at the Apple store and I have to say, it's one of the coolest mp3 (or is it an mp4?) players ever. I finally got one around the last week of December at Best Buy and I'm completely happy with the Touch. It's simply magnificent. The only complaints I have about the item are kind of minuscule overall but would definitely make the iPod Touch better.
The iPod Touch features a beautiful 3.5 inch screen where you basically do all the navigating with your fingers. The brightness of the screen can be adjusted which is nice. The greatest thing about the Touch is its ease of use. Scrolling and zooming in all make sense and you just somehow know how t o use it when you pick it up. Plus navigating the Touch is so much easier than using the dial of a normal iPod. The Touch obviously plays music which you put onto the device via iTunes. The Touch also allows you to put videos onto it. Also you can download podcasts to the Touch. This stuff is pretty standard for any iPod. All these features are accessed through the touch screen which for the most part is pretty responsive.
The 3 other main new features of this iPod are safari (web browsing), Youtube, and the iTunes store. These 3 features appear as icons on the home page for easy access. Safari is pretty self explanatory. If you use a Mac, Safari is Apple's web browsing software (I think; I use a PC). It's pretty convenient to take a easy to use web browsing software with you anywhere you go. The Touch uses wifi so you'll need to be in a hotspot to use it, but most places is/are/will go wireless as wireless is the future. So basically wherever you go, you'll most likely encounter a place with wifi. One of the only "negatives" about the safari program is the virtual keyboard. The virtual keyboard is a full qwerty keyboard that appears on the screen and you tap that part of the screen for the desired letter, number, or symbol. It takes getting used to and even then you'll still click symbols you didn't want to. I think it's better than the annoying phone keypad but it doesn't replace a real keyboard. Safari works but can be a bit slow sometimes and it doesn't support flash which is kind of lame as you can't watch videos on safari but safari is free so it's not that bad. The youtube application allows you to view youtube videos. Youtube has an extensive video library so this is a nice app. Everything you can do on youtube.com you can do in this app. The video does take a little longer to load than on the computer but it works. In order to access this application, you'll need to be in a wifi hotspot. the iTunes store is basically the iTunes store on the Touch. You can buy music, but you can't buy videos or subscribe to podcasts. I guess if you're dying to get a song and aren't near a computer this program (it's not really an app) would be pretty convenient but I haven't used this much. To use this feature you again need to be in a wifi hotspot.
There are a couple other applications like a calculator, calender, and stopwatch but those are kind of useless (you can't add events to the calender). This leads me to one of the biggest negatives about the Touch. You can get other apps via apple.com but those are all online apps (more like bookmarked web pages on safari). You'll have to be near a hotspot to use them. I really want to just download apps straight to the iPod itself. In order to do that however, you have to jailbreak the Touch. You download some program and it jailbreaks the iPod. However if you choose to do this you're warranty is immediately canceled. Best Buy's crappy 3 year warranty which I regrettably bought was 60 USD doesn't even allow me to replace the item if I accidentally break it. If you want to get the most of the Touch, don't buy a warranty, be extra careful with the device, and jailbreak it.
The next gripe I have about the iPod is its capacity. At 16 (actually less; more like 14.8) GB, its capacity pales in comparison to the classic iPod. This iPod could easily replace the classic if it had even half the capacity of the classic iPod. Songs aren't big but movies are. This leads me into another minor complaint about the Touch. My old Nano (which was 2 GB) could be used as an external hard drive. The Touch is read by the computer as a camera (!?!?!?! WTF? it doesn't even have a camera) and not as a memory device. I don't get it. It would've been nice to use the Touch as a memory device as I could easily move stuff around among computers.
So more memory, allow the Touch to be used as a memory device, and allow downloadable applications are pretty big negatives. I will say the biggest flaw is a design decision. The back of the iPhone was like a gray piece of plastic. For the Touch, Apple decided to use the shiny mirror back they use for basically all iPods. I absolutely hate this back. It cries "FINGERPRINT AND SCRATCH ME" to me and I hate getting fingerprints and scratches on it (the Touch doesn't come with any sort of case and my Touch already has a few scratches on it...) Buy a case off of ebay (which I did) or something and protect it. Also the headphones that come with the Touch are not as good other headphones but these are so much better (in sound quality and style) than Apple's old headphones. They work well and in my opinion don't need to be replaced.
Overall, the iPod Touch functions marvelously. It's an amazing piece of technology as we go from button pressing to touching. The amazingness and range of its function outweigh its somewhat low memory capacity and annoying backside. Allowing it to download real applications and using it as memory device would be nice, but you buy an iPod to listen to music and maybe watch a couple of videos on those long trips (battery life varies depending on what you're doing). As such this device works well. Browsing the internet on the Touch is what separates it from other iPod models. It functions as it's supposed to and ANY negatives people say about it is about them wanting more than what they're getting. If you're looking to get an iPod Touch consider the steep, steep 350-400 USD pricetag (amazon.com has really good prices compared to elsewhere). I mean that's how much my xbox 360 was. If you know you're not going to watch videos, what's preventing you from getting a Shuffle? If you have an iPhone why are you reading this? As a sleek innovative device I think the Touch is completely worth it. You get almost all your entertainment needs in a neat, sexy package that has an amazing screen that rivals if not beats that of the PSP's. The price is asking a lot but all things considered, I think all the other iPod models don't compare to this one. Apple can't make everyone happy but they sure made me happy.
Advantages: Start of the art funky MP3 player with add ons Disadvantages: Cocky oversites on Apples part
...it. Personally I feel that Apple should allow for this by putting a protector in the box, or even a case to sit the Touch in. I'm not being tightfisted here, but the reality is that to buy a case is not an easy thing; being a new product now shops in my town had a case to fit the product, and ordering can take up to a fortnight, which in reality means a bit of a longer weight before using your new toy.
There is no mains adapter, to charge your Ipod ... ...And finally my biggest complaint, Apple assumes you have experience of Ipod products, and as a result provide you with no instruction guide. Yes there is a quick start fact sheet, but no detailed information. It took me some time to figure out how to expand the size of the screen, especially considering the quick start guide gives you duff information, it says tap the screen to enlarge, this simply is not the case. And even some weeks after purchasing ...
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Advantages: Design, weight, colour, widescreem wi-fi Disadvantages: Memory, headphones, touch can be a little frustrating
...personal opinion is the lame apple headphones. I would definately recommend upgrading to a decent pair to enable the ipod to blast out the music to it's full potential. Also I find the fact the ipod flips to an album cover almost as soon as a song has begun is slightly annoying, it needs a right side tap, and another flick just to skip to another song. The 16GB version doesnt come with a wall charger either, so should you take your fashionable little ... ...the headphones supplied, are although apple pretty, are weak, there was no charger, and the memory is half that of my previous ipod. I find it a little more effort to skip a track, and my recently played list is not what I have recently played!
But saying that its a gorgeous little device, very stylish, very clever with its wi-fi capabilities, and well worth the money. The fact that people will double take it, and mistake it for an iphone makes ...
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Advantages: Thousands of Apps after Jailbreak, Super Cool Design, High Quality hardware, Easy to Use, Intuitive Disadvantages: Poor Battery Life, Lack of Preinstalled Apple Apps, Easy scratching rear and easy fingerprinting glass
...Guides
3. USB wire
4. Apple standard Headphones
5. Small plastic stand
6. Dock Adaptor
Thats it: BE WARNED there is NO AC adaptor to plug into a wall socket.
SETUP
- Setup is easy, you plug your iPod into your computer and start iTunes (If not present you must download it) you then tranfer you music, videos and photos through that.
BE WARNED: If you dont have a music library in iTunes it can take some time to get right with all the Album ... ...at around one song per second and when completed you will have your library on your ipod which is pretty cool.
STANDARD APPS:
- The apps that come with the touch are good. No doubt about it... BUT
in order to use your ipod to its potential I strongly reccommed you JailBreak your iPod. Jailbreak is a term to describe opening your ipod up to 3rd party applications.
NOTE: you cannot break you ipod by jailbreaking it!
- The apps that come on the ...
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Advantages: Very slim design, superb visuals, built-in wifi with full web, jailbreak to increase functionality Disadvantages: Isn't the BEST sound, but that's being very picky!
...it is. How on earth Apple managed to pack everything in it is way beyond me. The first decent thing therefore is the packaging - nothing is wasted. The box is incredibly small so won't clutter anything.
Now onto the main review. The Apple iPod Touch is one amazing music player. Unfortunately it still does not support OGG-Vorbis, but of course AAC makes up for this so you can still retain great quality sound with lower bitrates. The iPod Touch doesn't ... ...fault would be being very picky indeed.
Now onto the visuals. Absolutely superb. Even just looking at album art - you'll be astounded as to quality. But if you think that's great, the video player is even better. Supporting videos of 640x480 using the MPEG-4AVC codec, the quality is simply breath-taking.
But that is what you expect from Apple, right? Well the iPod Touch features an awful lot more. Inbuilt 802.11g WiFi is probably the biggest thing ...
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Advantages: Sleek, good looking , futuristic controll Disadvantages: poor battery life and recharge process, no DIVX,WMV,WMA,AVI
...bit lousy. ( funny considering apple claim to be audio experts )
*Need to use itunes to transfer music to it. (pain compared to other media players)
Video player
*Plays all the apple friendly filetypes. NO DIVX, MPEG 1-2, AVI or WMV.
*Video quality is top notch. 10/10
*Screen size is way too small to emerse you in a video thats playing.
*Need to use itunes to transfer video to it. (pain compared to other media players)
Touch Controll
... ...it down badly. Apple need to focus on audio quality.
As a video player it works really well but why No DIVX ? The main reason for buying this is the touch screen. Revolutionary doesn't do it justice. It really is a joy to use and it looks great. ...
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Touch comes to iPod. The Apple iPod touch boasts the multi-touch interface - the revolutionary technology that made iPhone a hit is now on one amazing iPod. Its gorgeous 3.5-inch widescreen display lets you touch your music in Cover Flow and watch video. Browse the web with Safari and watch YouTube videos on the first-ever Wi-Fi iPod.
Headphones
Headphones Type: Headphones - binaural - ear-bud
Connectivity Technology: Wired
Sound Output Mode: Stereo
Response Bandwidth: 20 - 20000 Hz
Impedance: 32 Ohm
Connections
Connector Type:
Docking station
Headphones ( mini-phone stereo 3.5 mm )
IEEE 802.11b/g (Wi-Fi)
Miscellaneous
Included Accessories: Stand, polishing cloth, docking station adapter
Cables Included: USB cable
Software: Apple Safari
Battery
Battery: Player - rechargeable - Lithium Ion
Battery Enclosure Type: Integrated
Run Time (Up To): 22 hour(s)
Recharge Time: 3 hour(s)
Battery Life Details:
Digital playback - up to 22 hour(s)
Video playback - up to 5 hour(s)
System requirements
OS Required: Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2 or later, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition SP2 or later, Apple MacOS X 10.4.10, Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2 or later, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition SP2 or later, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple MacOS X 10.4.10
Software Requirements: ITunes 7.4 or later, ITunes 7.6 or later
Peripheral / Interface Devices: USB port (compatible with 2.0 specification)
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