iPod Touch

On October 23, 2001 the mp3 changed forever. Apple introduced the first iPod and it literally changed the way people saw the mp3 player. It made large capacity players a reality and also set the price of mp3 players for the future.

In September of 2007 after the success of the iPhone, Apple introduced their newest media player, the iPod Touch . This device features one of the best user interfaces ever created. You can use your fingers to navigate its menus via the large 3.5″ touch screen.

The iPod Touch is much more than a mere music player. It can play videos, surf the web (via WiFi) and save your pictures. The iPod Touch is essentially the iPhone without the actual phone.

Here are a few of the technical specifications for the iPod Touch:

• Revolutionary multi-touch interface
• 3.5-inch widescreen color display
• Wi-Fi (802.11b/g)
• Safari, YouTube, iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store
• 8mm thin

Things I like
The iPod Touch is a truly amazing device. The user interface allows you to effortlessly surf the web, listen to your music, browse your pictures and watch your videos with the touch of your fingers. While touch screens have been done before, Apple has revolutionalized the way its done with multi-touch capabilities. You can now touch with more than one finger and it makes typing and scrolling much easier.

The other thing I really like about the iPod Touch is that Apple included WiFi capabilities. This means that if you’re near a WiFi hotspot you can connect and surf over to YouTube to watch videos. It’s small things like this that really impress me. The final thing that I like is the fact that the iPod Touch notices when you switch the device on its side. If you’re watching a video you can turn the iPod Touch on its side and it will automatically switch to wide-screen mode.

Things I don’t like
The iPod Touch is meant to be a MEDIA DEVICE. This means it’s supposed to store more than just music. It’s supposed to be able to store pictures, videos and music but Apple only gave it 16GB worth of space. I realize that these are flash drives and are more expensive than normal hard drives but 16GB is just not enough to store all of your pictures and videos. For an example, I have 12GB worth of music, 16GB of pictures and over 200GB of movies. I realize that all of this couldn’t fit on a player but you should be able to fit at least some of it.

Other than the fact that the iPod Touch doesn’t have enough space to store all of your music and videos I can’t seem to find anything else wrong with it. I’ve been using it for a while now and I’ve found no glitches in the software and no areas where I would improve it.

Pros:

• Very nice design
• Multi-touch capabilities are awesome
• WiFi

Cons:

• Not enough space
• A little expensive

Final Thoughts
The iPod Touch is a very nice device. The multi-touch capabilities are a very cool and make browsing your music and video files a lot easier than the old way of doing things. I think that the device is a little expensive and there should be more storage included but over all it is definitely a solid media player. If you don’t have an iPod Touch I would totally advise getting it.