Apple iPod Touch 2010 (32GB)

The fourth generation Apple iPod Touch offers more updates, including a high-definition video camera, first in front of the camera, microphone, video calls, FaceTime, retinal screen, gyro sensor and a light slim design.
The bad Features:
The picture quality is not supported by iPhone 4, no GPS and no option for the 3G data service.
The final results:
The iPod Touch is the best iPod, yet offers all the fun of the iPhone experience without a support contract or monthly bills.Latest version of the Apple iPod Touch has changed since the first version, launched in 2007, but the world of technology. The time is
ripe for the "implementation", IPAD and smartphones, small and large come. The iPod Touch is no excuse for the Apple iPhone without the phone must be "equally valid to an IPAD, call the fits in your pocket.
Priced at $ 230 (8GB), $ 290 (32GB) and $ 390 (64GB), Apple's fourth-generation iPod Touch has everything you have in the latest version and makes it better. The screen is beautiful, the fastest processor, the sleek design and new features such as a video camera and HD video calls FaceTime, the iPod Touch more essential for those who are not armed with the latest iPhone or an Android smartphone.

Design

It is not easy to distinguish a fourth-generation iPod Touch earlier versions, but there is little change developers. The chromed steel back is a little flat, which is a bit narrower, which is less prone to wobble when they are placed on a table. More importantly, touch the back now has a camera in the upper left corner, with a pinhole microphone. The placement of the camera is almost identical to the iPhone 4 of the camera, but the cameras are different. The camera is used on the Touch exclusively for the video recording, but you can do to capture still images while the camera of the iPhone takes the same weight as that of a camera (5 megapixels, LED flash, support HDR) and a HD Camcorder .
Unlike the Apple iPod Nano video camera launched in 2009 or the Dell tablet serial camera bag, the camera system is not obscured by the hand if you hold the camera of course.
The same applies to the video camera to the front of the Apple iPod Touch, before and behind the glass, where the handset has generally made on a cell phone has to be said. A built-in speaker is part of the Touch, but is behind a small speaker grilles at the bottom of the device with a standard dock connector and headphone jack 3.5 mm.
The volume buttons are accessible at the left edge of the button, which is divided into two different buttons is now used instead of simply tilting the design in the previous two models. led us to new volume controls without setbacks design, but we learned a bit like Apple's decision, the eve of the screen power button on the left side of the upper left to spend. This is a victory for left-handers, we suppose, but it took a while to adjust.
Apart from the addition of the camera in the face of the iPod Touch, the rest is just as expected. There is a Home button on the capacitive touch screen that measures 3.5 inches diagonally always. The width of the Touch has grown from 2.4 inches to 2.3 inches, a slight acceleration of growth in height (up to 4.4 inches by 4.3 inches) fell. The depth of the Touch is now 0.28 inches, thanks to the flattening of the hump. Apart from design to the touch less subject to fluctuations flatter on a table, other subtle design adjustments to a real practical difference - even if it is not allowed to be reused for a touch of age.
oz with 3.56, is the iPod touch even easier. After a year with the third generation model in the bag, the thinnest and lightest touch of the fourth generation feels invisible in comparison. A place for skinny jeans.

Features

As expected, the iPod Touch is neck and neck race Specifications Specifications for the iPhone. The features have made the headlines when their debut 4 Flight iPhone to iPod Touch, without fanfare, but no less impressive. Please A4 the same processor, the same three gyroscope axes, and a screen similar to the retina, an impressive sports 960x640 pixel resolution at 326 pixels per inch thickness. There are no calls can be made to receive cell phone in the surf with 3G connection, or a GPS signal, but the difference between the Touch and the iPhone is smaller than ever before.
A basic function iPhone users have lost for some time a microphone. The key to the fourth generation solves the problem with a mono microphone on the back, which raises in all directions (ie, ball). The addition of the microphone is apparently there for the camcorder and FaceTime adjacent new video call feature (see below), but also works with features like Voice Memo application and VoIP applications, and the third audio-recording the previously required a compatible headset microphone or accessories.
If we were a defining feature of fourth-generation iPod was select Touch is the new video and photo functions. The camera on the back of the plate with 720p HD video at 30 frames per second. The resulting video file MP4 H.264 QuickTime, which can be edited directly on the device with the basic function of creation or the editor advanced iMovie (for $ 4.99). You can also synchronize your recordings to your computer through the USB cable or send the results directly from the touch with the MobileMe e-mail or upload it to YouTube. We have to give points of contact to integrate information on the estimated geotag your photos and videos, provided you keep WiFi antenna
The front camera is suitable for self-portraits and video calling, but the VGA resolution (640x480 pixels) can not compete with a high-definition camera on the back. A button on the touch screen you can switch between the two chambers.
Both cameras can also still images, but the results did not stand up to 5 megapixel camera (with LED Flash) displayed on the iPhone 4th In essence, these images are pictures of the video, simply equivalent to a resolution of 960x720 pixels with a camera in the back, or 640x480 pixels camera with auto-portrait. They have received the vaccines even close to the capacity on the iPhone 4, but the plans will not make your digital camera with jealousy.
In general, does the iPod Touch and a hand-held camcorder, but still prefer something like a flip UltraHD when it comes to video quality, audio quality, flexibility and decision-making and game. This means you can surf the Web, download applications or e-mail your friends at once, and product comparisons with a grain of salt.

Gaming

Play on the iPod Touch is better than ever before, A4, thanks to the improved display, gyro sensor further three axes and increased processor performance. At the time of this review, there are many applications and games that take advantage of the capabilities of the new money by certain height, roll control movement and orientation of the accelerometer, and existing multi-touch controls. However the extent of choice of games in the App Store is well integrated. On the selection of fun awaits, addictive casual games like angry birds, Scrabble and plants against zombies, a growing number of titles with the console-quality, such as Mirror's Edge, Assassin's Creed and Madden NFL 11th
However, it should be noted that many of the most intense games iPod important in the life of the battery in your. In our first tests of causality, a new game like Mirror's Edge leak battery to 20 percent in an hour. If the game is your primary use of an iPod Touch, which probably is worth the investment is in a package of external backup battery.
Another feature of the game with the fourth-generation iPod Touch Set is an application developed by Apple called Game Center, which is pre-installed. The game Application Center functions as a league table that contains your progress and achievements of all the games installed on the iPod. It also shows the notes and reviews of game play and new friends in wireless mode, multiple players among his friends, or random car match with a player. If you are tired to play Scrabble or racing games against the computer, then Game Center is the way for Apple to make its offer more social game. Of course the cynic to believe in ourselves, that play Apple a way for people to buy more games, but we have no doubt it will suddenly zap productivity.

Music & Video

True to the heritage can provide the iPod as a media playback device, imagine the iPod Touch almost all of the experience of music and video. Apart from the third-party applications like Pandora Radio, Rhapsody subscription music or video streaming of Netflix, the basic music and video playback capabilities are impressive in itself. With Apple iTunes free software on your computer, sync your music library, podcasts, audiobooks, music videos, movies, television and educational lectures and videos from iTunes U.
If you want to download music or videos, there is a direct link to the iTunes Store on the main screen of the iPod Touch, which offers everything from albums and podcasts, TV shows and rent movies. The same shop is located in the iTunes software on your computer (though the version of the application is to load much faster), and all equipment purchases or the software but in the end, sync it to your computer.
With the introduction of the fourth-generation iPod Touch and a new box of 99 million set-top, Apple offers the rental of television for the first time, following a review of the contents of the rental on selected items from Fox and ABC will be limited, but all the contents to a attractive price of 99 cents per episode. Television rented a period of 48 hours taken after it shows the playback, or 30 total days, even if not started to play the show. In comparison, film distribution stricter rent a 24-hour window after you start playback, or 30 days if you have not seen.
What is the music and video services over iTunes, the iPod Touch much more flexible than the iPod in the past. Any unprotected MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, AIFF, WAV or audio to be transferred to a button, without problems, and Audible audio book files with DRM-protected work, too. If you have a complete collection of music files to unprotected WMA, Apple's iTunes software can manage transcoding format. If you have a large number of files protected WMA DRM files (or shop, such as Ogg Vorbis or FLAC), which has only to do with happiness. That is, if the protected WMA files is the result of a music subscription service only for PC, such as Rhapsody or Napster, it is now possible to hear and sometimes to save these files in other applications.
The same situation is more or less valid for the video. A handful of popular video types, without protection, such as H.264 and MPEG-4 are based on a number of versions (MOV, MP4, M4V) and resolutions. Some types of files such as AVI, DivX, XviD, and can be third-party applications. And some video services like YouTube, Netflix, and others can be used to provide content to provide on applications and includes the Safari Web browser. That is, if you synchronize a file protected by DRM WMA from Amazon or CinemaNow downloaded, you will probably have no luck.

FaceTime

The first symbol is on the main menu of the iPod touch a new label application FaceTime. Is a feature that makes its way to the iPhone that you make or receive calls for free real-time video over the Wi-Fi network can FaceTime calls from your iPhone to iPhone, Touch Touch or between work done can touch and iPhone owners.
FaceTime calls on your iPod Touch to as good as on the iPhone do, but the mechanism is different. Since iPods are not appropriate phone numbers to them, the iPod Touch users to create your account on the device and attach it to an e-mail. A contact list that appears in FaceTime can add and edit. An outgoing call on an iPod Touch FaceTime, select a contact from the list and select whether you want to call the phone number of a contact or e-mail. Whenever the person receiving the call an iPhone or iPod Touch compatible fourth generation has been connected to Wi-Fi, the call must happen without problems.
Once connected, the camera is turned on head and you can see and hear the caller and vice versa. Like the iPhone 4, there is a button on the screen to switch between the front and back of the camera in front of the camera. You can also press the start button to the video stream and perform various tasks on the iPod Touch, signals while maintaining the call.
However, face time is a very handy feature. In our initial limited testing, we noticed a very low latency in audio and video FaceTime. The integrated microphone and speakers can be connected to the top of the fourth generation to speak and hear their calls without a headset or microphone adapter plug. The function works with headphones, though. If you connect the headset connected, the audio is fundamental in touch to send the headphones and the internal speaker is disabled, but the microphone still works. If you connect a compatible headset with microphone (as in-ear headphones for Apple), the listener is in control. Unfortunately, as with the iPhone, a Bluetooth wireless headset will not work with FaceTime calls. We are not complaining, but because the feature is free, runs well, and surprisingly 99 percent.

IOS

So far we have focused this review primarily on improvements that Apple has with the equipment and skills of fourth-generation iPod Touch did. The elephant in the room is for all existing and continuous improvement of the capabilities of the Apple platform IOS (formerly known iPhone OS).
Central functions such as e-mail remain, web browser Safari, Maps, YouTube viewer, photos, calendar and notes, in the heart of the device. installed features are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the available capacity. An iTunes App Store, Internet from your computer or directly from the iPod touch, you can download and install thousands of applications, including Internet radio players, games, voice recorders, networking tools and more.
Updates in the last iOS4 like folders screen enter the e-mails and multithreaded applications compared to most of the criticisms we have made the unit over the years. For more information on the capabilities of the IOS upgrade from Apple, read CNET's full review of Apple's fourth iOS

Performance

Apple rates the battery life of fourth-generation iPod Touch within 40 hours of audio playback or 7 hours of video, what an improvement over the previous generation estimate of 30 hours of audio playback and 6 hours of video. Our official test results from CNET Labs, an average of 49.3 hours of audio playback and 7.9 hours of video, making it the longest in the history of the iPod.
But as the functions and capabilities of the iPod Touch continue in the industry and communications, performance audio and video play may not be the best measure of the resistance of the battery in the real world. In our experience, 3D games tend to have the battery to drain faster. Measures such as disabling audio equalizer, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi can save battery life and reduces the brightness of the screen.
The sound quality for the latest iPod Touch is good and right in line with earlier models. Apple can always do more on this front, offers customized EQ settings or a variety of audio accessories on the parameters of the equalizer, but we are not holding their breath. If you mentioned to update values ​​in general hated white helmets, you should be able to convince a great audio experience from your iPod Touch.
IOS 4.1, iPod Touch now adds full support for his current role AVRCP Bluetooth 2.1, allowing users to pause and skip songs or adjust the volume with Bluetooth remote control (if any). Sync iPod Touch with Bluetooth accessories such as headphones, the speaker system or car stereo simply enough, and a register of paired devices previously stored in the iPod settings menu. The audio quality and range (30 feet) Bluetooth is what you expect from most Bluetooth mobile devices, and we are pleased that the applications of audio and video via Bluetooth as simple as reading to transfer music. However, it should be noted that the continuation of active Bluetooth in the iPod Touch is a toll on the battery life time.
The video quality on the retina of the Apple display is excellent. Throw in some television programs, a movie or a video game high quality and experience of rent is so smooth and clear, it's hard to believe. Last year we were a little reluctant to recommend the video iPod Touch experience the beauty of high definition OLED screen, Microsoft Zune. At this time, but we believe it is fair to say that anyone who can improve games and the current screen technology Apple is a difficult time for Apple, the kind of rich graphics and video content to play the game, the pixels sing.

The iTunes factor

If you are considering buying an iPod for the first time that the installation of Apple's iTunes software for your computer is required. The software is free and available for Mac and Windows, and encourage potential iPod owners who are familiar with the software in advance if it works well for you and your team. For more information on iTunes, we recommend a visit to Download.com 's most recent revision and feedback from users who are connected.

Concluding Remarks

The iPod Touch is probably the last shot in the war of portable media players. Just do not have much to do in terms of quality and capacity. Laughter In fact, sometimes at CNET on the number of product categories were accidentally touch, mutilated, including Internet radios, PDAs, handheld gaming devices and GPS receivers.
In fact, the size and power capabilities to grow the touch, yet continue to play a role in the war of Tablet PCs. Apple iPad has an early lead in this space with which almost all the features of the Touch shares only on a much larger screen. To not consider the touch like a Tablet PC based on the small screen seems a bit arbitrary, especially as Android-based competitor Dell, Archos, Samsung and other similar agents investigated.
Time will tell how consumers define the new class of Tablet PCs, but do not be surprised if the iPod is beginning to take on new competitors view the ever-shrinking world of portable media players.

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