With its physical likeness to the iPhone, the new iPod Touch creates an expectation of iPhone flexibility in clients while lacking iPhone features, such as camera and Bluetooth. Nor does it compare to standard iPods – offering only ten percent of the capacity of the iPod Classic. Despite offering web access via a special version of Safari, email is conspicuously absent.

Having said this, one of the key advantages of the iPod Touch is Apple’s revolutionary new multi-touch control interface. The device features only two controls, the sleep / power switch and a Home button. All other features are accessed through the multi-touch screen.

The multi-touch interface starts with a single touch on the power button to turn the device on and take you to its “Home ” screen. Select applications and settings with a hint of your finger, or push the Home button to revisit the main screen. Touch an input box to open a touch sensitive keyboard. Touch to select items in a list. Touch a slide control to adjust a value .

Sort your music thru brand, artist, playlist or album and flick through them using the iPod Touch coverflow feature

When viewing photos on your iPod Touch, you can flick through them using coverflow. A photograph that was taken in landscape mode can be viewed full screen just by turning your iPod horizontally. To zoom in on detail simply “pinch ” the section of the photograph you would like to zoom in on and slowly draw your fingers apart. To revisit the first view simply tap the screen.

To view video on your iPod Touch, simply touch the video button at the bottom of the home screen and choose the video you would like to watch. Then turn the screen horizontally to look at in full screen mode on the 3.5 ” screen that’s got a resolution of 480-by-320, with 163 pixels per inch. Stills and videos display beautifully on this screen in clear, sharpened pictures.

The flexibility of the iPod touch is sure to inspire your friends the first time you demonstrate it to them. You should expect gasps of surprise from people who have never seen it before.

The iPod Touch features several applications including the Safari web browser, YouTube, a calendar, a contact list, a clock, a calculator and more.

There are such a lot of things you can store on your iPod Touch too – including, music, videos, photographs & podcasts. You may even download content directly from iTunes if you have a WI fi connection. Apple has even made an arrangement with Starbucks that enables you to access a WI fi connection in Starbucks stores without connection fees or login duty.

Is the iPod Touch for you? Well, if you already own an iPhone there is not any need to purchase an iPod Touch as the iPhone includes all the same features plus plenty more. However , if you’d like many of the features of the iPhone without having your music disrupted by the ringing of your telephone or without that annoying 2 year contract with ATT then the iPod Touch is definitely the way to go!

The iPod Touch will cost you US$299 for the 8GB model, or US$399 for the 16GB version.

Julia Andersson is an Australian mother of 3 including 2 teenagers. Julia is also a student with ProsperLearning where she latterly finished learning ecommerce and search engine optimisation methods. She runs an electronics sweepstakes site at cheap ipod touch .

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