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Apple iPod touch 8 GB

Manufacturer : Apple Computer
In Stock : 86

List Price:	$299.99
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Features

Upgrade your player with the iPhone 2.0 Software Update for iPod touch via iTunes for an additional fee
8 GB of storage provides approximately 1,750 songs; includes earphones, USB cable, dock adapter/connector, polishing cloth, and stand
Battery life provides up to 22 hours of music and up to 5 hours of video
3.5-inch widescreen multi-touch display
New applications include email; maps; and widgets for weather, notes, and stocks

Product Description

(not the iPhone) With the Apple iPod touch, Apple has married the iPhone's revolutionary multi-touch interface to their popular digital media player. So instead of a Click Wheel, you just use your fingers to flick through your music, photos, and video. Two fingers can be used in a pinching or spreading motion as well, which zooms in and out of photos and web pages. That's right, the iPod touch is the first iPod to offer web access. It does this via built-in Wi-Fi support. There's even a special iTunes Wi-Fi Store, so you can browse and purchase new music and video while you're on the road. The latest iPod touch now offers a suite of new applications, including email, maps, and handy widgets for weather, notes, and stocks. The new iPod touch also features a customizable home screen that lets you rearrange buttons and create your own Web Clips. Ports - Dock Connector & Stereo Minijack Connects to a PC or Mac through USB (using the dock connector) 802.11b/g Wi-Fi Wireless / Safari web browser Charge Time - about 3 hours (1.5 hours fast charge to 80% capacity) Audio Support - AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, & 4), Apple Lossless, WAV, & AIFF Photo Support - Syncs iPod-viewable photos in JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, PSD (Mac only), and PNG formats Video Support - H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in. m4v,. mp4, and. mov file formats; H.264 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 3.0 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in. m4v,. mp4, and. mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in. m4v,. mp4, and. mov file formats Unit Dimension

Amazon.com Product Description

iPod touch has always been an amazing iPod. With great new applications, now iPod touch is even better. Watch a movie you rented from iTunes. View rich HTML email with graphics and photos displayed inline. Open PDF, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Excel attachments. With Maps, find your location and get directions from there. See where you are on a map, a satellite image, or a combination of both. Make Web Clips for your Home screen so you can visit your favorite websites in just one tap. Fill up to nine Home screen pages with Web Clips and arrange them however you like. Browse YouTube videos, follow your stocks, check the weather, and take notes. With the new iPod touch, tap into even more.

Glide through albums with the iPod touch's amazing Cover Flow technology. View iPod touch dimensions.

Browse the Web with the included Safari browser. Or fire up a YouTube video and enjoy the show.

The iPod touch responds to your movements; turn it sideways and your video is presented in widescreen mode.

Incredibly thin at just 8 millimeters.

The mail application lets you view rich HTML email with graphics and photos displayed inline, as well as PDF, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Excel attachments.

Rearrange the icons on your Home screen. Even change the Dock.

Mark specific locations, find the best route between them, and search for points of interest along the way with Maps.

Music, Movies, and More
Flick through album covers and find your music. Download and watch your favorite movies, rentals, TV shows, and more from the iTunes Store. Tap into thousands of photos. All using incredible multi-touch technology on a beautiful 3.5-inch display.

Music
If a picture says a thousand words, think of what all the album art in your collection might say. With Cover Flow on iPod touch, flick through your music to find the album you want to hear. When you do, just tap the cover to flip it over and display a track list. Another tap starts the music. Even view the lyrics while you're listening to the track.

Video
The 3.5-inch display gives you video like you've never seen on a portable device. Watch your favorite movie or rental from the iTunes Store. Catch up on TV shows anywhere. Enjoy video podcasts. Play music videos. All using multi-touch technology. With a tap, bring up onscreen controls to play/pause and view by chapter. Turn your iPod touch to switch between widescreen or full screen.

Photos
iPod touch holds up to 20,000 photos you sync via iTunes. Flick to scroll through thumbnails. Tap to view full screen. Rotate for landscape format. Or perform some sleight of hand by opening two fingers to zoom in. You can even play slideshows, complete with music and transitions. Set any photo as your wallpaper to personalize your iPod touch . . . with a touch.

iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store
With iPod touch, discover new music anywhere. Its built-in wireless capability gives you access to the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, where you can buy songs with a tap. Browse New Releases, What's Hot, Genres, and Top 10 songs. Or find exactly what you're looking for with a quick search. Tap a song to preview it, tap Buy to purchase it. Even redeem your iTunes gift cards and gift certificates. All from anywhere you happen to be.

Starbucks Music
You walk into a Starbucks. Order your latte. While you wait, you hear a song wafting from the loudspeakers. You love it. So you get out your iPod touch and buy it over Wi-Fi. Just like that. The iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store on iPod touch tells you what's playing in select Starbucks and lets you buy it along with other featured Starbucks content. So you can sip, shop, and listen.

Home Screen
Make the iPod touch Home screen your own. Change what's in the Dock. Rearrange the icons. And make room for even more. You can add up to eight Home screen pages and fill them with Web Clips.

Internet
Surf the web. Send email. Get directions and find your location with Maps. Check stocks, weather, and more. iPod touch is not just an amazing iPod. It's the Internet in your pocket.

Safari
iPod touch is the only iPod with wireless access to the web. Safari is built in, so you see websites the way they were designed to be seen. Search the web using the touchscreen keyboard. Zoom in and out by tapping the multi-touch display. Switch between portrait or landscape view, depending on how you hold your iPod touch. Sync your bookmarks. Better yet, add them to your Home screen. iPod touch can automatically create a Web Clip on your Home screen from any of your favorite websites. So just one tap takes you directly there.

YouTube
Got a bit of a YouTube addiction? iPod touch feeds it from anywhere with a special YouTube player built right in. Watch featured videos, check out the most viewed, search for something specific, then bookmark your favorites for future reference. It's all the fun of YouTube--pocket-size.

Mail
iPod touch is the first iPod with Mail. And it's the best email you've ever seen on a handheld device. This mail application lets you view rich HTML email with graphics and photos displayed inline, as well as PDF, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Excel attachments.

Maps
Get directions and check traffic with Google Maps. Even find yourself, wherever you are. Using some local Wi-Fi networks (if Wi-Fi is turned on), iPod touch finds your approximate location and gives directions from there. Mark specific locations, find the best route between them, and search for points of interest along the way. With a hybrid map and satellite view, you can see major street names on top of satellite images.

Widgets
Widgets are small, incredibly handy applications you can use every day. Three of the most useful widgets now live front and center on your Home screen:

Weather
Get a five-day weather forecast, including highs and lows, for cities around the world. Save your favorite locations so you can check the weather anytime.

Notes
Take notes, make a to-do list, or jot down a reminder using the easy-to-use touch keypad. Then save or email them.

Stocks
Check your stocks and track the market over one day, one week, one month, three months, six months, one year, or two years.

High Technology
iPod touch features the same revolutionary interface as iPhone, the most advanced software ever engineered, and state-of-the-art technology. With the multi-touch display, you can control everything using only your fingers. If you rotate your iPod touch from portrait to landscape, the accelerometer automatically changes the way the content is displayed. And with wireless technology, you can connect to the Internet from any Wi-Fi network, anywhere you are.

Multi-touch
iPod touch features the same revolutionary interface as iPhone. Built to take full advantage of the large 3.5-inch display, the multi-touch interface lets you control everything using only your fingers. So you can glide through albums with Cover Flow, flick through photos and enlarge them with a pinch, or zoom in and out on a section of a web page. And iPod touch features a touchscreen QWERTY keyboard perfect for browsing the web in Safari, getting directions on a map, searching for videos on YouTube, finding music on the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, or adding new contacts.

Ambient Light Sensor
The iPod touch display has an ambient light sensor that automatically adjusts brightness to suit the ambient light in your surroundings. The result? A better experience for you and battery-saving efficiency for iPod touch.

Wireless
Connect to the Internet anywhere there's a Wi-Fi network. Send email from a coffee shop. Surf the web at the airport. Browse, buy, and download music from the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store at select Starbucks locations or other wireless hot spots in your area. iPod touch finds wireless networks and connects you to the Internet.

Accelerometer
An accelerometer detects when you rotate iPod touch from portrait to landscape, then automatically changes the contents of the display, so you immediately see the entire width of a web page, your music in Cover Flow, or a photo in its proper aspect ratio.

What's in the Box:
8 GB iPod touch, earphones, USB 2.0 cable, dock adapter, polishing cloth, stand, quick start guide.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating of 4.00 out of 242 reviews

Rating :
Love It! Defiantly Worth It! - Sikandar Porter-Gill, Jul 28, 2008

The Apple iPod Touch is extremely easy to use, and it's sleek and modern look is wonderful!

Pros:
-WiFi, automatically finds and displays networks available, extremely useful on travel. I've used it several times traveling, and it comes in handy!
-Mail, the mail app is extremely easy to setup, and the download of mail is extremely fast. It does not download the entire email if it is to large; however, you can tell it to download the remaining part of the email. Attachments are extremely easy to view, and once again if it is to large it will not download, unless you ask it to.
-The Music and Video on here are WONDERFUL! The video is very detailed and clear (same goes for Internetnet video, and YouTube video). Music seems the same as my 5G iPod. I love the CoverFlow that lets you easily navigate through all your music. It was very tedious to try to figure out which album you were choosing on older editions of iPods.
-Safari, the internet application is very easy to use, and lets you make favorites, just like your computer's explorer.
-Quick reaction time when tilting the iPod (for CoverFlow, games, Safari)
-AppStore is extremely easy to use, and is constantly updated with new apps that are very helpful
-iTunes is also very easy to use, with search, categories, and the most popular songs/albums
-Keyboard is also very easy to use. I prefer to use the keyboard in the horizontal mode, because I find it easier.
-The "Remote" App lets you wirelessly control your iTunes library on your computer, which is very nice if you have a home theatre system.
-The touch screen is extremely easy to use, and is very responsive to your finger...I do wish you could use a stylus, which is a drawback, but I do believe the made one specifically for touches and iPhones.

Cons:
-Sometimes, when email is downloading, and you go on (lets say to another email Account, like I do), the iPod freezes temporarily-but it comes back after a few seconds.
-No built-in radio; however, with the new AppStore there is the Pandora App which is "online-radio" which in a way makes up for it!
-No "hard" volume, or pause button, which is kind of inconvenient, but it is easy to get use to.

I would highly recommend getting a case to protect your little investment!

Hope this helps in your decision!

Rating :
OK, Here's my explanation. - Janet Mieses De Nuez, Jul 28, 2008

pros.
-slick
-small
-not to heavy
-nice screen size
-nice little gadgets

but, what's all the fuzz about?

I got two of these, the software upgrade is only to take it from 1.1.4 to 1.1.5, it takes 165mb to download from itunes and 3 min to install, what's the difference? well i actually can say nothing, i ended up jailbreaking , but i got to the conclusion that after you jailbreak it, many problems begin to rise. (IF YOU LOVE YOUR INVESTMENT PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING) (IF YOU LOVE TO HACK AND DESTROY AND CRACK STUFF THIS MIGHT MAKE YOU MAD, BUT BTW, I DONT CARE, I JUST CARE FOR THOSE WHO WOULD LIKE TO JAILBREAK BUT I MAKE THIS REVIEW AS A WARNING FOR THE CONSEQUENCES THAT MIGHT COME TO HAPPEN)

JAILBREAKING CONSEQUENCES

-WI-FI begins to take a more disconnected turn than connected even been close as 1 inch of your router, AND SAYING CONNECTED TO WI-FI. YEAP...

-GET'S SLOWER AND SLOWER.. AND SLO . W .. ER...

-SOME APPS WILL NOT WORK, I REPEAT, SOME APPS WILL NOT WORK, EXAMPLE, CONTACT'S WILL NOT OPEN AND CALCULATOR ALSO.

-BOOT TIME WILL BE MUCH MORE SLOWER

-BATTERY LIFE ONLY 2 HOURS USE TIME (HEARING MUSIC ONLY) . ETC....

SO YOU MIGHT ASK WHY JAILBREAKING? WELL BECAUSE IT'S VERY BORING TO HAVE SUCH AN INCREDIBLE DEVICE IN YOUR HANDS AND YUST HAVE WI-FI TO SURF SAFARI, YOUTUBE,MAIL MOBILE ME APPS DOWNLOADS AND HEAR MUSIC AND WATCH MOVIES, YOU MIGHT SAY, NOPE, OR MAYBE SO WHY YOU BOUGHT IT?, WELL I BOUGHT IT TO MAKE THIS REVIEW ONLY (YEAP). KNOW IM USING THE OTHER ONE THAT I HAVEN'T VIOLATED, YUST AS FACTORY RESET 1.1.4 AND IT'S PRETTY FUN TO HAVE YOUR LEGAL STUFF, MANY WILL SAY YOU CAN YUST MAKE A FACTORY RESET AND BOOM, IT'S ALL OK, NOPE, I TESTED BOTH OF THEM AFTER I MADE THE REST BACK TO 1.1.4 AND IT WAS NOT THE SAME IPOD TOUCH SUCH AS THE OTHER ONE I ALSO PURCHASED.

it'S

-SLOWER
-TOUCH SCREEN TIMING SLOWER TO RECOGNIZE WHAT IM TOUCHING
-AND SOME APPS STILL WILL NOT OPEN CORRECTLY
-WI FI STILL SAYING SERVER CANNOT BE FOUND, BUT AS IM USING THE UNVIOLATED ONE, THE WIFI WORKS IMPRESSIVELY GOOD, EVEN 150 FT OF DISTANCE FROM THE ROUTER, WILE THE OTHER ONE BEING AS CLOSE AS ONE INCH IT WILL NOT WORK AS FACTORY DEFAULT, PEOPLE, PLEASE UNDERSTAND I LOVE THE IPOD TOUCH, AND I LOVE TO MAKE IT JAILBROKEN BUT I DO UNDERSTAND THAT A REVIEW LIKE THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE A LONG TIME AGO.

A THE END I HAD TO PUT THE 2.0 SOFTWARE, IT FIXED MANY PROBLEMS, SPECIALLY WI- FI AND THE CONTACTS. AND LASTLY I DO NOT WORK FOR APPLE, I DONT GET A PAYMENT FOR THIS REVIEW, I ONLY USE UBUNTU AND LINUX SOFTWARE ALL THE TIME AND BOOT TO WINDOWS TO IMPLEMENT MOVIES AND MUSIC TO THE POD.

STAY LEGAL AND YOUR POD WILL BE A GREAT MACHINE, IF YOU LOVE TO SEE THE PODS HACKED YUST LIKE IN YOUTUBE, WITH INTERNET EXPLORER, FIREFOX, MESSENGER , GPS MAPS, AND MANY MORE COOL APPS WITH THE INSTALLER GO AND DO IT, BUT...., YOU'LL SEE THAT WHEN YOU TRY TO FIX SOMETHING THAT WAS ALREADY FIXED, YOULL REMEMBER THIS.

Rating :
Awesome gadget - Adam F., Jul 28, 2008

My only complaints are the high price and only ~32GB of storage. I haven't upgraded to the 2.0 software yet, but this is one cool little gadget. The larger screen for watching movies is awesome -- you can now read subtitles and small print in the movies!

If you're able to reload your content often, then a cheaper 16GB model is probably fine. A movie takes up about 1-1.5 GB, so space gets eaten up quickly with these things. Something Apple will probably be improving this Fall with the next iPod updates/upgrades (typically come out before the holiday season).

Rating :
WONDERFUL - Mary, Jul 28, 2008

I purchased the 32 GB Apple Ipod for my boyfriend and he absolutely loves it. It works great and the best part is that now he does not have to carry a bag of hundreds of CD's. He is a musician and loves music. It was the best gift he has ever received and the best one I could have purchased. Amazon is Great.

Rating :
Nearly perfect - Ronald Kinney, Jul 28, 2008

Apple did a great job with the Touch. Its sleek, light weight, and easy on the eyes. I thought the touch screen and motion sensitive controls would be a novelty but they're anything but.

Pros:

Ease of use: I'd never used any of the Pods before (I'd used Sansa Players before), but after watching a couple of tutoral videos I quickly got the hang of it.

The APP Store: Wow. These apps make the Itouch more than an just an MP3 player, its a mini computer.

The Screen: Is made of a heavy duty glass that is scratch resistant, enough said.

Cons:

I-Tunes: You're pretty much stuck using I-Tunes.

Headphones: Could they have possibly made more uncomfortable ear buds? I also wonder why they made the buds white when the player is black and silver? My advice is to buy something better, Apple needs to redesign these earphones. My Final gripe is that the headphone jack is on the bottom of the player.

The 2.0 update: I spent over $200 on this I-Pod and they want me to pay $10 for a software upgrade? This is the reason I've been reluctant to buy Apple products, they really like to squeeze every dime they can outta you.

The APP Store: They have alot a nice stuff on there, but an awful lot of it is overpriced.

Overall this is a fantastic player, most of the cons are minor. I'm still miffed over being asked to spend $10 for an update, I've never had to pay for one with any of my previous electronics. Apple is making plenty charging for the apps themselves there was no reason to charge so much for the upgrade.

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