MP3 Players Review

Apple iPod touch 8 GB 2nd Generation specifications:

• This player is the iPod touch, not the Apple iPhone
• 8 GB capacity for 1,750 songs, 10,000 photos, or ten hours of video
• Up to 36 hours of music playback or six hours of video playback when completely charged
• 3.5 inch widescreen multi touch display with 480 by 320 pixel resolution
• Supported audio formats: AAC, Protected AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible, Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV, supported video formats: H.264, MPEG 4, supported image file types: JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, PSD Mac only, and PNG

Apple iPod touch 8 GB 2nd Generation review:
Product Description Posted September 9, 2008:
The iPod touch has generally been an amazing iPod. And with its groundbreaking technologies including a Multi Touch screen, the accelerometer, and 3D graphics and access to hundreds of games, iPod touch puts an amazing gaming experience in the palm of your hand. It comes in eight GB, 16 GB, and 32 GB models with new volume controls and a fitted speaker. Play hours of music. Create a Genius Playlist of songs that go great together. Watch a movie. Surf the web. View rich HTML email. Find your place and get directions with Google Maps. Browse YouTube videos. And shop the App Store for games and applications.

Millions of songs, thousands of videos, hundreds of games. Click to expand.

Music

Music on iPod touch not only sounds amazing, it seems amazing, too.

Touch Your Music
Remember what it felt like to flip through your CD or record collection? Cover Flow brings that feeling back. Just turn iPod touch on its side and flick through your music to find the album you want to hear. Tap the cover to flip it over and display a track list. Tap again to begin the music. View the lyrics while you are listening.

A Musical Genius
Say you are listening to a song you really like and want to hear other tracks that go great with it. The new Genius feature finds the songs in your library that go great together and makes a Genius Playlist for you. You may be able to listen to the playlist now, save it for afterward, or refresh it and give it another go. Count on Genius to create a mix you would not have thought of yourself.

Fill It Up
Fill up your iPod touch with audio and video from your iTunes library. All you must do is decide the playlists, videos, and other content you want to sync, and iTunes does the rest.

The iPod touch feels better in your hand, thanks to the stunningly thin, contoured enclosure made of polished stainless steel.

Just turn iPod touch on its side and flick through your music to find the album you want to hear. Click to expand.

Carry hours of video with you, and watch it on a crisp, clear 3.5 inch widescreen color display.

Movies and TV Shows

Movies and TV shows have never looked this good on a movable device.

Everything’s a Must see
Carry hours of video with you, and watch it on a crisp, clear 3.5 inch widescreen color display. Need ideas? From Hollywood blockbusters to independent favorites, there is something for everyone at the iTunes Store. Download and watch movies with some clicks. Favor TV shows? Purchase a single episode or an complete season’s worth all now.

In Control
While watching your video, tap the display to bring up the onscreen controls. You may be able to play/pause, view by chapter, and change the volume. You also can use the new volume controls on the left side of iPod touch. Want to switch between widescreen and full screen? Simply tap the display twice.

Sync and Go
Need many entertainment for your next flight or road trip? With iTunes on your Mac or PC, you may be able to sit at your computer and decide the movies and TV shows you want to sync to your iPod touch.

Games

With its groundbreaking technologies, iPod touch puts an amazing gaming experience in the palm of your hand.

Get in the Game
Developers all over the world are creating thrilling games unlike anything you have ever seen on an iPod or mobile device. Many games come alive with stunning 3D graphics and immerse you in the action with the advanced technologies in iPod touch. There is a fitted speaker, so you may be able to hear all the action.

Fingertip Control
Many games for iPod touch use Multi Touch to get you exact, fingertip control over game elements. Use your finger to drag your pieces around the board in chess or dice games. Or pinch to expand or shrink your view, rotate your character left or right, or just tap to make a selection.

Tilt, Turn, and Go
The fitted accelerometer really responds to your movements, so you may be able to tilt and turn your iPod touch to control the action. It is perfect for racing games where your complete iPod touch acts as a steering wheel and for tap and tilt games like Super Monkey Ball, in which your character rolls to your movements.

The App Store
If games are not your thing, there is an iPod touch application for you. Thousands of applications in nearly every category entertainment, social networking, sports, photography, reference, and travel are a tap away at the App Store.

Developers all over the world are creating thrilling games unlike anything you have ever seen on an iPod or mobile device. Click to expand.

The fitted wireless capability in iPod touch gives you access to the iTunes Wi Fi Music Store, where you may be able to decide from millions of songs with a tap.

IPod touch features Safari, the most advanced web browser ever on a movable device.

ITunes Wi Fi Music Store

Discover new music anywhere.

Buy on the Fly
The fitted wireless capability in iPod touch gives you access to the iTunes Wi Fi Music Store, where you may be able to decide from millions of songs with a tap. Browse New Releases, what is Hot, and Genres. Look at Top Songs and Top Albums. Or find exactly what you are looking for with a fast search. Play a 30 second preview of any song, then tap once to purchase it. Your music starts downloading instantly, and you may be able to keep tabs on its progress by tapping the Downloads button.

Sync it Back
When you connect iPod touch to your computer, the music you bought on the go syncs to your iTunes library. If you have partially downloaded a song to iPod touch, your computer completes the download automatically.

IPod touch at Starbucks
If you have an iPod touch, an iPhone, or a computer with the new variant of iTunes, you get free Wi Fi access to the iTunes Store and to Starbucks’ Now Playing content. Stroll into a participating Starbucks, and you are connected automatically.

Home Screen

Get instant access to whatever you need on your iPod touch.

Customize Your Home Screen
Arrange the icons on your Home screen any way you want. Move them to another Home screen. Create up to nine Home screens for fast access to the games and applications you download from the App Store and to your Safari Web Clips.

Go Home
No matter where you’re on iPod touch, you may be able to press the Home button to return to the Home screen. You may be able to go back to what you doed at any time.

Add Apps, Web Clips, and More
Whenever you download an application from the App Store, a new icon appears on your Home screen. And if you check the same websites every day, just create Web Clips and you may be able to access the sites directly from your Home screen with a single tap. Not happy with how they are organized? Reorder them any way you want by dragging them around the screen.

Safari

IPod touch features Safari, the most advanced web browser ever on a movable device.

Browse Anywhere
The iPod touch is the only iPod with 802.11b/g wireless access to the web. Whenever you are connected via Wi Fi, you may be able to access your beloved websites to read news, check scores, pay bills, and go shopping.

Search and Find
IPod touch syncs your bookmarks from your PC or Mac, so you may be able to access favorite sites quickly. It has Google and ! search fitted, so it is easy to find what you are looking for on the web.

Zoom with a View
Get a closer look at any web page by zooming in and out with a tap or a pinch of the Multi Touch display. View websites in portrait or landscape. Rotate iPod touch 90 degrees and the web site rotates, too.

Clip it.
If you check a web site frequently a favorite newspaper, blog, or sports site why not create a Home screen icon for it? Make Web Clips with Safari, and your beloved sites are generally just a tap away.

Email on iPod touch looks and works just like email on your computer.

When you are connected via Wi Fi, you may be able to get directions, find local businesses, and check traffic with Maps.

Mail

Email on iPod touch looks and works just like email on your computer.

See it All
IPod touch supports rich HTML email, so pictures and photos appear alongside text. And you see email attachments in their original formats, not stripped down variants. Rotate, zoom, and pan in more than a dozen standard file and image formats, as well as PDF, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and iWork.

Access it All
Access your email from liked providers including MobileMe, Microsoft Exchange, ! Mail, Google Gmail, and AOL and most industry standard IMAP and POP mail systems.

Send Fast
IPod touch recognizes email addresses in different applications. If you run across an email address on a web page or a map listing, as an example, just tap it, iPod touch opens a new message and addresses it for you.

Type Smart
With its fitted dictionary, the intelligent iPod touch keyboard predicts and suggests words as you type, making it fast and easy to write email.

Maps

When you are connected via Wi Fi, you may be able to get directions, find local businesses, and check traffic.

Find Yourself
IPod touch finds your place using recognized Wi Fi hotspots. It also finds points of interest by keyword: Search for “coffee” and iPod touch shows you every restaurant close.

Get Directions
Just type in an address and get directions from wherever you’re. View a list of turn by turn directions, or see a highlighted map path. You also can mark particular places and find the best path between them.

Enjoy the View
Just like Google Maps on your computer, Maps on iPod touch allows you to switch between views of Google map data, satellite pictures, and a hybrid of both. Multi Touch makes the difference. Tap to zoom, pan, and change your view on the move.

See Traffic
Maps on iPod touch shows you live traffic info, showing traffic speed along your path in easy to read green, red, and yellow highlights.

Love to watch the new YouTube videos? IPod touch gives you all the fun of the web’s best videos pocket size.

IPod touch uses iTunes to sync photos you have in iPhoto on a Mac or Adobe Photoshop Elements and Adobe Photoshop Album on a PC.

Keep your schedule at your fingertips with iPod touch.

Build your contacts list on your Mac with Address Book or on your PC with Microsoft viewpoint, then sync everything to your iPod touch using iTunes.

YouTube

Like to watch the new YouTube videos? IPod touch gives you all the fun of the web’s best videos pocket size.

Share from Anywhere
Email your beloved videos to your beloved people. Tap “Share” on any YouTube video detail page, and iPod touch creates an email with the video link already in it.

Watch What You Want
Explore shown, Most Viewed, last, and Top Rated videos. Or search for the video you want with a keyword search. Once you find what you are looking for, bookmark it to watch afterward.

Photos

Carry up to 25,000 of your beloved photos everywhere.

Share Photos
Show thousands of photos from the palm of your hand. Flick to scroll through thumbnails. Tap to view full screen. Rotate to see a photo in landscape. Pinch to zoom in or out. Play slideshows, complete with music and transitions. Email a photo to a friend, set it as your wallpaper, or share it in a MobileMe Gallery.

Save Photos
If you get a great image in an email, save it to your photo library on iPod touch. Once there, it acts just like any other photo. You may be able to set it as your wallpaper, share it on the web, or pass it on.

Sync Photos
IPod touch uses iTunes to sync photos you have in iPhoto on a Mac or Adobe Photoshop Elements and Adobe Photoshop Album on a PC. Just decide which photos or albums to sync to your iPod touch, then you may be able to look at them and share them anywhere you go.

Calendar

With iPod touch, it is easy to make plans and stay on schedule.

Add Events
Keep your schedule at your fingertips with iPod touch. Add events to your calendar. Set a custom alert. Write a note or two. Manage many color coded calendars. And do it all with just some taps.

Stay in Sync
Connect iPod touch to your computer, and the events that you have produced on the go automatically sync to Microsoft viewpoint on a PC or iCal on a Mac. And all the events you have added on your computer sync to iPod touch.

Three Ways to View
IPod touch gives you three ways to view your calendars. List view shows you all your appointments in the coming days as a complete list, which you may be able to scroll up and down. Day view displays one day’s worth of appointments visually. And Month view offers an at a glance look at an complete month.

Contacts

Put names, email addresses, phone numbers, and more at your fingertips.

Make Contact
Build your contacts list on your Mac with Address Book or on your PC with Microsoft viewpoint, then sync everything to your iPod touch using iTunes. You also can add contact info straight to your iPod touch from maps, web pages, and email. Next time you sync, your computer is updated, too.

Search Contacts
If you have many of contacts, a fast search shows you a list of agreeing names. Or you may be able to scroll up and down your complete list to find the right contact. Want to send them an email? Just tap an email address and the Mail application opens automatically.

Organized by Groups
If you keep your contacts organized into groups such as co workers, friends, family, and so on iPod touch will, too. And iPod touch can hold more than just names, email addresses, and phone numbers. You also can track birthdays, websites, nicknames, and notes.

Stocks, Weather, and Notes

Stay over it all.

Check Stocks
Stocks on iPod touch shows you performance info for any stock you decide. When you want to have more details about a stock’s performance, tap the Y! for instant access to ! Finance.

Get Weather
Check global weather at home or away. Add the cities you want, then flick back and forth to get six day forecasts for each. Tap the Y! to open a ! city guide that shows you what is happening, rain or shine.

Take Notes
Forget the pen and paper. Use Notes on iPod touch to write yourself a fast note and keep vital info on hand. There is a fitted email function that allows you to send notes to yourself or others.

Calculator

Calculator on iPod touch helps you settle the restaurant bill or keep track of your budget.

Calculate Simply
When you tap the Calculator icon, iPod touch shows you a simple application with addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and memory functions. Use it just as you could a pocket calculator.

Calculate Scientifically
Your simple calculator doubles as a sophisticated scientific calculator. Just rotate it to landscape to access dozens of functions for solving complex science and math problems.

IPod touch now will include fitted Nike + iPod support.

Nike + iPod

Tune Your Run
IPod touch now will include fitted Nike + iPod support. Just slip the Nike + iPod Sensor available separately into your Nike+ shoe and start your run. The sensor communicates wirelessly with your iPod touch, tracking your time, distance, and calories burned. It gives you voice feedback on your progress.

Tune Your Cardio Workout
This feature also works with new cardio equipment available in many strength centers. Just look for treadmills, ellipticals, stair steppers, and stationary bikes that are Nike + iPod matched.

Sync with Nikeplus.Com
When you get back to your computer, sync your iPod touch via iTunes and move your exercise data to nikeplus.Com, where you may be able to track your workouts, set objectives, and challenge friends.

Multi Touch

IPod touch features the same revolutionary interface as iPhone.

Glide, Flick, Pinch
Built to take full benefit of the big 3.5 inch display, the Multi Touch touchscreen interface allows you to control everything using only your fingers. So you may be able to glide through albums with Cover Flow, flick through photos and expand them with a pinch, zoom in and out on a section of a web page, and control game elements exactly.

How it Works
The Multi Touch display layers a protecting shield over a capacitive panel that senses your touch using electrical fields. It then transmits that info to the LCD screen below it. IPod touch software enables the flick, tap, and pinch.

Type with the Touchscreen Keyboard
IPod touch features an intelligent touchscreen keyboard perfect for browsing the web in Safari, to get directions on a map, searching for videos on YouTube, finding music on the iTunes Wi Fi Music Store, or adding new contacts. It analyzes keystrokes to propose words as you type and correct spelling errors automatically. And because it is software established, it changes its keys to support typing in many languages.

IPod touch locates close wireless hotspots, as well as protected networks.

Accelerometer

IPod touch responds to motion using a fitted accelerometer.

Responds to Movement
IPod touch detects when you rotate it from portrait to landscape, then automatically changes the contents of the display. So you now see the complete width of a web page, view a photo in its correct part percentage, or control a game using only your movements.

How it Works
The accelerometer inside iPod touch uses three elements: a silicon mass, a set of silicon springs, and an electrical current. The silicon springs measure the position of the silicon mass using the electrical current. Rotating iPod touch causes a fluctuation in the electrical current passing through the silicon springs. The accelerometer registers these fluctuations and tells iPod touch to change the display therefore.

Perfect for Gaming
Accelerometer technology really shines when you play games because it immerses you in the action. It is perfect for racing games where your complete iPod touch acts as a steering wheel and for tap and tilt games like Super Monkey Ball, in which your character responds to your every motion.

Wireless

Connect iPod touch to the Internet anywhere there is a wireless network.

Connect Automatically
IPod touch locates close wireless hotspots, as well as protected networks. If you have never used a specific network, it asks you to enter a password the 1st time, and it remembers the password from then on. So the next time you are inside range, it connects automatically.

Surf’s Up
Now you may be able to send email from a coffee shop. Surf the web at the airport. Shop for games from your sofa. Browse, purchase, and download music from the iTunes Wi Fi Music Store at choose Starbucks places or another wireless hotspots in your area.

What’s in the Box
IPod touch eight GB, earphones, USB 2.0 cable, dock adapter, polishing cloth, fast start guide

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17 Responses to “apple ipod touch”

1. Gerry Says:
   September 1, 2008 at 5:44 pm

   Is online price generally better than store price?

2. Jack U Says:
   September 2, 2008 at 9:46 pm

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   September 3, 2008 at 10:39 pm

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4. Frank79 Says:
   September 4, 2008 at 0:25 pm

   What would be the discount if you get it wholesale?

5. Chris S Says:
   September 5, 2008 at 10:35 pm

   Where can you get it used online?

6. Patty Says:
   September 6, 2008 at 8:23 pm

   It’s on all price comparison web sites, just look around if you dont think this is the best deal

7. Christine B. Says:
   September 7, 2008 at 1:19 pm

   Target had the lowest price last month, without a rebate

8. Issac Says:
   September 8, 2008 at 6:28 pm

   How long is the warranty?

9. Barry Says:
   September 9, 2008 at 5:30 pm

   Cant beat online deals for apple ipod, plus free shipping at most stores over a certain amount

10. Roy P Says:
    September 10, 2008 at 3:29 pm

    Check Amazon reviews

11. Lindsay Says:
    September 11, 2008 at 7:55 pm

    No apple ipod touch rebates in Fort Worth

12. Danny H Says:
    September 12, 2008 at 8:12 pm

    I did try Circuit city, no deals worth mentioning

13. Jonathan F Says:
    September 13, 2008 at 3:30 pm

    Ebay had it for sale

14. Ida Says:
    September 14, 2008 at 7:15 pm

    Is that the lowest price for apple ipod touch online, or all deals included?

15. Jason74 Says:
    September 15, 2008 at 3:45 pm

    What’s apple ipod compared to other mp3 players?

16. Mildred G. Says:
    September 16, 2008 at 7:25 pm

    apple ipod touch, great buy for the money

17. Johnny L Says:
    September 17, 2008 at 4:35 pm

    i buy it at Costco store that had a lowest price, but usually online deals are better

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