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iPod Touch

Author Thomas

Launched in October 2001, the iPod mp3 player captured the attention of millions around the world. Each year, Apple, who makes the iPod, released better models incorporating color displays, the ability to display pictures, video, and better and better storage capacity and battery life.

We watched 14 different classes of iPod come through the development pipeline, but we never purchased one because we knew there would be one that would be worth waiting for.

The only mp3 player we had ever purchased was purchased in 2002 or 2003 and was a Rio 128 Megabyte mp3 player. Very small compared to the iPods being released then, but at least it was something within our price range.

When the iPod Touch was released in September of 2007, we knew that was the iPod we wanted. The iPod Touch has the ability to:

• Connect to the Internet using the Safari web browser.
• Has a direct interface into YouTube.
• The ability to play videos (on a much larger screen than the previous iPods.
• Play music and display the lyrics to the song being played (if you’ve added the lyrics through iTunes.
• Scroll through your songs by touch.
• Access iTunes
• Check email
• Display pictures
• Take and email notes
• Open documents from emails such as Word documents and Excel documents
• Use Google Maps

Some features were not included in the early release of the iPod touch, but many for sale now include all the updated features. To update ours, we had to pay $20 through iTunes; however, the updates were worth it.

The iPod touch does not have a click-wheel like other iPod versions, so if you take it running, it’s a little harder to skip through songs. There is however a little trick with the iPod touch, if you quickly press the “Home” button twice on the iPod Touch (even if it’s locked), you can pause or continue your song that was playing. You can also adjust volume and skip through songs. You can use this option no matter where you are in the iPod’s menu system.
Not long after getting the iPod Touch, we got an iPod 1GB Shuffle for free for opening a bank account (we had the chance of getting a Nano or another Touch, but ended up with the Shuffle which has been great for exercising. Both have been fun and have made us into Apple fans.