The New iPod Touch – Hype or Heaven?

With its physical similarity to the iPhone, the new iPod Touch creates an expectancy of iPhone flexibility in customers while lacking iPhone features,eg camera and Bluetooth. Nor does it compare to normal iPods – offering only 10% of the capacity of the iPod Classic. Despite offering web access through a special version of Safari, e-mail is conspicuously absent.

Having said this, one of the primary advantages of the iPod Touch is Apple’s revolutionary new multi-touch control panel. The device features only 2 controls, the sleep / power switch and a Home button. All of the features are accessed thru 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 touch of your finger, or push the Home button to return to the main screen. Touch an input box to open a touch delicate 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 thru them using coverflow. A photograph that was taken in landscape mode can be viewed full screen 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 return to 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 decide on the video you would like to watch. Then turn the screen horizontally to watch in full screen mode on the 3.5 ” screen that’s got a resolution of 480-by-320, with 163 pixels per inch. Pictures and videos display superbly on this screen in clear, sharpened photographs.

The flexibility of the iPod touch is sure to inspire your mates the 1st time you demonstrate it to them. You may expect gasps of surprise from people who have never seen it before.

The iPod Touch features one or two applications including the Safari net browser, YouTube, a calendar, a contact list, a clock, a calculator and more.

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

Is the iPod Touch for you? Well, if you already own an iPhone there is not any need to buy an iPod Touch as the iPhone includes all the same features plus many more. But if you want plenty of the features of the iPhone without having your music disturbed by the ringing of your phone or without that pesky 2 year contract with ATT then the iPod Touch is unquestionably 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 ma of three including two teenagers. Julia is also a student with ProsperLearning where she latterly finished learning ecommerce and search website optimisation methods. She runs an electronics sweepstakes web site at refurbished ipod touch .

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