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The revolutionary technology that made iPhone a hit is now on one amazing iPod. Gorgeous 3.5-inch widescreen display. Touch your music in Cover Flow and watch video on a stunning widescreen display. Wi-Fi web browsing . Browse the web with Safari and watch YouTube videos on the first-ever Wi-Fi iPod. Music downloads from iTunes. Download music wherever you are - free yourself from the Desktop. Take a Video Tour of the New Touch 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 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. iPod touch ambient light sensor iPod touch accelerometer 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. 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 you can flick through your music to find the album you want to hear. And when you do a quick tap of the cover flips it over to display a track list. Another tap starts the music. Video The 3.5-inch display gives you video like nothing you’ve seen before on a portable device. Watch your favorite movie. Catch up
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38 of 38 people found the following review helpful
By George Smeg
It's black, it's shiny that's all you need to know! Well not quite. Moving through the menus of the itouch is what it's all about. It is the easiest, most intuitive and fun way of navigating that I have ever seen. Other than the power and "Menu" switch all other actions are controlled by touching, wiping, tapping or pinching the screen. Touch the Music icon - touch Albums - turn your itouch through 90° - wipe across the screen to select the album from the covers displayed - touch the album - touch play. It just doesn't get any easier. The same principle applies to your photos. Once you are in the album you see the thumbnails. Touch a thumbnail and you get the picture in full size. Rotate your itouch to see the photo in landscape or portrait. Then comes the really good bit when you use two fingers moving apart to zoom in on the picture. To fully appreciate this feature you must try it yourself.
The sound and picture quality are excellent and movies are very easy to watch on the big screen. Apple do not supply any software with the itouch, all of the content control of the itouch is via Apple's itunes software. If you have had a portable media player before, you are probably used to just dragging and dropping your files through Windows Explorer. I am warming (slowly) to itunes and some of its features but am still uncomfortable with the restrictions such as uploading files from your itouch. Itunes is making me discriminate about what music I download to the itouch and as such I am avoiding filling up the precious memory with my usual dross. That said, it is very easy to find other software out there that bypasses the Apple police.
I used DVDDecrypter to extract a movie from a DVD and videora ipod converter to convert the file to the itouch's MP4 format.... Read more ›
The sound and picture quality are excellent and movies are very easy to watch on the big screen. Apple do not supply any software with the itouch, all of the content control of the itouch is via Apple's itunes software. If you have had a portable media player before, you are probably used to just dragging and dropping your files through Windows Explorer. I am warming (slowly) to itunes and some of its features but am still uncomfortable with the restrictions such as uploading files from your itouch. Itunes is making me discriminate about what music I download to the itouch and as such I am avoiding filling up the precious memory with my usual dross. That said, it is very easy to find other software out there that bypasses the Apple police.
I used DVDDecrypter to extract a movie from a DVD and videora ipod converter to convert the file to the itouch's MP4 format.... Read more ›
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
By L Hatfield
Never before having had an mp3 player of any kind, I'm not one used to listening to music from a nifty pocket device, but when I saw the iPod Touch I finally took the plunge.
What can I say that you haven't already heard? Well here's a few things to sum it up:
Design:
The iPod Touch looks and feels twice as expensive as it actually is, just 8mm thick (slimmer than a standard CD case) with a nice 3.5 inch widescreen display and only two physical buttons on the whole device and its glossy black finish and chrome back make it something you'd like to own even if it wasn't an mp3 player.
Interface and Userbility:
The touchscreen lets you navigate absolutely everything besides turning it on and off, returning to the home screen, and bringing up the music menu wherever you are. Simple actions like selecting Music or Video are done with just a touch of a finger, as you'd expect. But where the iPod Touch really impresses is the features like browsing through your photos by flicking your finger, and zooming in and out by pinching your two fingers, or browsing through your music by scrolling up and down or flicking through cover flow. This is where the accelerometer comes in. Simply by rotating the iPod the screen will automatically switch to landscape or Cover Flow. It's trully incredible.
Features:
While the iPod Touch is not quite the counterpart of its bigger brother the iPhone, it keeps about 95% of the features without the ridiculous £35 per month contract. The iPod touch, having no phone application and other hardware misses out on these features:
Full wireless capability through mobile internet: instead using wi-fi to connect to the web.
Bluetooth: For connecting wirelessly to a headset but not much else.... Read more ›
What can I say that you haven't already heard? Well here's a few things to sum it up:
Design:
The iPod Touch looks and feels twice as expensive as it actually is, just 8mm thick (slimmer than a standard CD case) with a nice 3.5 inch widescreen display and only two physical buttons on the whole device and its glossy black finish and chrome back make it something you'd like to own even if it wasn't an mp3 player.
Interface and Userbility:
The touchscreen lets you navigate absolutely everything besides turning it on and off, returning to the home screen, and bringing up the music menu wherever you are. Simple actions like selecting Music or Video are done with just a touch of a finger, as you'd expect. But where the iPod Touch really impresses is the features like browsing through your photos by flicking your finger, and zooming in and out by pinching your two fingers, or browsing through your music by scrolling up and down or flicking through cover flow. This is where the accelerometer comes in. Simply by rotating the iPod the screen will automatically switch to landscape or Cover Flow. It's trully incredible.
Features:
While the iPod Touch is not quite the counterpart of its bigger brother the iPhone, it keeps about 95% of the features without the ridiculous £35 per month contract. The iPod touch, having no phone application and other hardware misses out on these features:
Full wireless capability through mobile internet: instead using wi-fi to connect to the web.
Bluetooth: For connecting wirelessly to a headset but not much else.... Read more ›
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
By P. Place
I'm in gadget heaven. A truly great product that does everything so well and feels well made and very robust in your hand. It is a fantastic music player (so long as you don't need loads of memory) - the cover flow on the large, bright and clear screen is superb - it is great for viewing podcasts/videos/TV shows and it is also an excellent photo viewer.
A few tips to make it even better...
1. The first thing you should do is add a clear plastic film to the back as the stainless steel which looks amazing does scuff and scratch very very easily. Do this the minute you take it out of the box because trust me the back can scuff so easily. I did this on someone else's advice and it stays looking great
2. Upgrade the headphones - the apple ones supplioed are not bad compared to ones supplied with other players but they don't do justice to the music especially, if like me, you choose to have some of your music in apple lossless or 256kbs or above. I went for the Shure SE110 and they are an excellent upgrade
3. Don't bother with a clear film for the front as it is very difficuly to scratch as it is made partly from quartz. Yes you need to polish it and you get a great little polishing cloth supplied.
All in all I am over the moon with this purchase and would recommend it to anyone
A few tips to make it even better...
1. The first thing you should do is add a clear plastic film to the back as the stainless steel which looks amazing does scuff and scratch very very easily. Do this the minute you take it out of the box because trust me the back can scuff so easily. I did this on someone else's advice and it stays looking great
2. Upgrade the headphones - the apple ones supplioed are not bad compared to ones supplied with other players but they don't do justice to the music especially, if like me, you choose to have some of your music in apple lossless or 256kbs or above. I went for the Shure SE110 and they are an excellent upgrade
3. Don't bother with a clear film for the front as it is very difficuly to scratch as it is made partly from quartz. Yes you need to polish it and you get a great little polishing cloth supplied.
All in all I am over the moon with this purchase and would recommend it to anyone
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By Milly Moll
I love this new ipod and think it's great, but, it soon eats up space when loading it with videos or the odd film, especially if you want to take advantage of the larger screen. You'll soon wish it had the capacity of the other ipods. I already have a 30 gig video ipod which I still love, so this one at 8 gig now seems small on storage. Other than that, I can't fault it.
If you require more storage, wait till they produce one with a much larger capacity, otherwise you may wish you had.
People who own two ipods and wish to use the old and new one in itunes, may have trouble trying to figure it out.
One simple solution is to create two libraries. To do this, open a new user account in windows, via control panel, log on as that new user, install itunes in the new windows account, and use and register your new ipod in the new itunes. That way you get two different libraries that don't clash or cancel each other out.
If you require more storage, wait till they produce one with a much larger capacity, otherwise you may wish you had.
People who own two ipods and wish to use the old and new one in itunes, may have trouble trying to figure it out.
One simple solution is to create two libraries. To do this, open a new user account in windows, via control panel, log on as that new user, install itunes in the new windows account, and use and register your new ipod in the new itunes. That way you get two different libraries that don't clash or cancel each other out.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
1.0 out of 5 stars
unsatisfactory
it does not look at all like the way it looks in the picture ... this is an old shabby i-touch.... the usb cabale given with it is also pathetic doesn't work at times need to... Read more
Published 1 month ago by ashiqur rahman
4.0 out of 5 stars
APPLE IPOD (RECON)
GOOD SERVICE THE PRODUCT ARRIVED WITHIN A FEW DAYS IT WAS IN REALLY GOOD CONDITION AND WAS BETTER THAN THE ONE I LOST! Read more
Published 14 months ago by oliviamae
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good iPod, bad charger.
Apart from being very scratched on the back-which to be fair my son would have done 5 minutes after having it, it is a great buy. Read more
Published 14 months ago by T
1.0 out of 5 stars
Can I have a refund, please?
Unfortunately, the back of the Ipod is all scratched with a dent and does not match the seller's description of 'like new'. Read more
Published on 26 Dec 2010 by Lisa Evans
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best Thing Since Sliced Bread!
Anyone who has one of these will know there's nothing better on the market. Excellent price, better than the Apple Store.
Published on 9 April 2009 by sie
1.0 out of 5 stars
5 Star Product - 1 Star Problem
I bought this iPod back in November '07 and it was great. However a year later the headphones socket stopped sending sound to the left ear, something thats expensive to fix myself. Read more
Published on 20 Jan 2009 by Mr. S. M. Tracey
1.0 out of 5 stars
Vista
I actually think the ipod touch is a fabulous piece of technology, but, I've judged on the weakest link, vista compliance. Read more
Published on 8 May 2008 by Dr. Ian Montgomery
5.0 out of 5 stars
the best thing I have bought in a very long time!
at first I was worried at the price of the touch ipod and was sceptible that it wasn't 'that' good. how I was wrong! So many functions and it looks amazing as well!
Published on 1 May 2008 by Mr. D. J. Arnold
5.0 out of 5 stars
So sexy.. I love it.
I got the 8GB iPod touch for christmas and keep discovering more great things as I use it.
The music player is the least important function for me. Read more
The music player is the least important function for me. Read more
Published on 18 Feb 2008 by M. Anderson
5.0 out of 5 stars
So cool, it almost seems unreal
This is such an amazing product, in every aspect. It's almost like something from the future. This slim, sleek gadget does so much, and so much so well: music, videos, Internet... Read more
Published on 3 Feb 2008 by R L
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