Apple iPod touch 1st Generation

Apple iPod touch

The Apple iPod touch offers millions of songs, thousands of movies and hundreds of movies as well as games, all in one device. It has a thin contoured stainless steel design with new volume buttons and built-in speakers. In size, the Apple iPod touch measures 110 mm x 61.8 mm x 8.5 mm (H x W x D) and carries a weight of approximately 115 g.

Features

In terms of capacity, the Apple iPod touch comes with three options, namely 8 GB, 16 GB or 32 GB flash drive which allows it to hold up to 1750, 3500 or 7000 songs in 128-Kbps AAC format, 10000, 20000 or 25000 iPod-viewable photos and 10 hours, 20 hours or 40 hours of video respectively. Besides that, the Apple iPod touch also comes wireless featuring Wi-Fi of 802.11 b/g, Nike + iPod support built in and maps location-based service. As for its display, the Apple iPod touch has a 3.5 inch widescreen Multi-Touch display with a resolution of 480 x 320 pixels at 163 pixels per inch. Other than that, audio features include frequency response of 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz and supported audio formats of AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), protected AAC from iTune Store, MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible in formats 2, 3, and 4, Apple Lossless, AIFF and WAV. The included earphones have a frequency response of 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz and an impedance of 32 ohms. In terms of TV and video features, the Apple iPod touch provides support for 480p and 576p component TV out, as well as H.264 video of up to 1.5 Mbps with a resolution of 640 x 480 pixels and a video rate of 30 frames per second. The Apple iPod touch runs on a built-in rechargeable lithium ion battery which offers playback time of up to 36 hours of music and up to 6 hours of video. The Apple iPod touch has a Mac system requirement of Mac computer with USB 2.0 port, Mac OS X v10.4.10 or later and iTunes 8 or later whereas Windows system requirements consist of PC with USB 2.0 port, Windows Vista or Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 3 or later and iTunes 8 or later.

Review Summary

Pcpro.co.uk simply dubbed the Apple’s iPod Touch as a brilliant marriage of software and hardware. Apple’s Midas touch has extended to touch screen keyboards, and the Touch has one of the finest models to experience. Practically speaking, users felt easy to get up to speed on the keyboard, reaching the same kinds of speed one could expect from a Blackberry. This gadget runs a touch screen version of OS X, and offer applications including Apple’s Safari web browser, one for watching YouTube videos, plus calendar and contact features. The unit use flash memory for storage available with either 8GB or 16GB of storage. Users found out that the browsing experience is superb. Pages are rendered quickly, and zooming in or out is easy. It also plays music by means of Apple’s Cover Flow, a handy way of browsing albums by cover. And uniquely, the Touch automatically grabs iTunes account details from PC, allowing users to buy songs over a WiFi network. However, the biggest disappointment would be the screen contrast problem which seems to be a little too dim. All the data-centric applications such as the Google Maps application are also not available. Users encountered problems on pages with lots of Flash and Digg.com where a few odd bugs were displayed. The lack of physical buttons means hassle when changing tracks or the volume from the user’s pocket itself. This model may come with minor defects here and there, but as a consumer-level media device for occasional internet browsing, the Touch is superb.