Apple iPod touch 8GB Features
Product Features
Play Music
Music played on the iPod i-touch not only sounds amazing, it looks amazing, also. Remember flipping through your CD or record collection? Bring that feeling back with Cover Flow. Just turn the Apple iPod Touch 16GB onto its side, then flick through your music to find the album you want to hear. Tap the cover to flip it over and display the track list. Tap again to start the music. You can view the lyrics while listening.
The new Genius feature finds the songs in your library that go great together and makes a Genius Playlist for you. You can listen to the playlist right away, save it for later, or even refresh it and try it again.
Play Media
Fill up your Apple iPod Touch 8GB with audio and video from your iTunes library. Choose the playlists, videos, and other content you want to sync, and iTunes does the rest. Movies and TV shows look awesome on this portable device. Carry many hours of video with you, and watch it on a crisp, clear 3.5-inch wide screen color display. For more ideas and favorites, there’s something for everyone at the iTunes Store. Download and watch movies with just a few clicks. Favorite shows from TV? Buy a single episode or an entire season’s worth all at once.
As you are watching videos, tap the display to bring up the onscreen controls. Play/pause, view by chapter, or adjust the volume. You may also use the new volume controls on the left side of the iPod touch. Tap the display twice to switch between widescreen and full screen.
Need a little entertainment for your next flight or road trip? With iTunes on your Mac or PC, you can sit at your computer and choose the movies and TV shows you want to sync to your iPod touch.
Play Games
With its new and updated technologies, Apple iPod Touch 8GB puts an amazing gaming experience in the palm of your hand. Stunning 3D graphics in many games, will immerse you in the action with the advanced technologies in iPod touch. A built-in speaker is included, so you can hear all the action.
Multi-Touch is used by many games for the iPod touch, to give you precise fingertip control over game elements. Use your finger to drag your pieces around the board in chess or dice games. Pinch to enlarge or shrink your view, rotate your character left or right, or simply tap to make a selection.
The built-in accelerometer acurately responds to your movements, tilt and turn your iPod touch to control the action. Perfect for racing games (where your entire iPod touch acts as a steering wheel) and for ‘tap and tilt’ games like Super Monkey Ball, where your character rolls to your movements.
The App Store
There’s an iTouch application for you. Many Thousands of applications in almost every category; entertainment, social networking, sports, photography, reference, and travel, are all a tap away at the App Store.
iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store
Discover new music where-ever you are. The built-in wireless capability in the iTouch allows you access to the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, where you can choose from millions of songs with ease. Browse What’s Hot, New Releases, and Genres. Check out Top Songs and Top Albums. Or, find exactly what you’re looking for with a quick Search. Play a 30 second preview of any song, then tap once to buy it. Your music starts downloading instantly, and you can check on its progress by tapping the Downloads button. If you’ve partially downloaded a song to Apple iPod Touch 16GB, your computer completes the download automatically
If you have an iPod touch, an iPhone, or a computer with the latest version of iTunes, you get free Wi-Fi access to the iTunes Store and to Starbucks’ Now Playing content. Stroll into a participating Starbucks, and you’re connected automatically. When you connect iPod touch to your computer, the music you bought on-the-go syncs to your iTunes library.
Customize Your Home Screen
Icons can be arranged on your Home screen any way you want. Even move them to another Home screen. Create up to nine Home screens for quick access to the games and applications you download from the App Store and to your Safari Web Clips. You can press the Home button to return to the Home screen at any time. You can also go back to what you were doing.
When you download an application from the App Store, a new icon appears on your Home screen. If you check the same websites every day, just create Web Clips and you can access the sites directly from your Home screen with a single tap. Want them organized? Reorder them how you would like by dragging them around the screen.
Safari
The Apple iPod Touch 8GB is the only iPod with 802.11b/g wireless access to the web. iPod touch features Safari, the most advanced web browser ever on a portable device. Whenever you’re connected via Wi-Fi, you can access your favorite websites to read news, pay bills, check scores, and go shopping. iPod touch will sync your bookmarks from your PC or Mac, so you can access favorite sites quickly. It has Yahoo and Google search built in, to easily find what you’re looking for on the web. Zoom in and out with a tap or a pinch of the Multi-Touch display to get a closer look at any web page. View websites in portrait or landscape. Rotate the iPod touch 90 degrees to see the website rotate, too. If you check a website frequently, you can create a Home screen icon for it. Make Web Clips with Safari, and then your favorite sites are always just a tap away.
Mail
Email on the iPod touch works and looks just like Email on your computer. Supports rich HTML emails, so images and photos appear alongside text. And you will see Email attachments in their original formats, not stripped-down versions. You are able to Rotate, Zoom, and Pan in more than a dozen standard file and image formats, including PDF; Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; and iWork. Access Email from popular providers including MobileMe, Microsoft Exchange, Google Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, and AOL, including most industry standard IMAP & POP mail systems. iPod touch recognizes Email addresses in many applications. If you find an Email address on a web site, page or a map listing, just tap it; iPod touch opens a new message and addresses it for you.
With its built-in dictionary, the intelligent iPod touch keyboard predicts and suggests words as you type, making it fast and easy to write Email.
YouTube
Love to watch YouTube videos? Apple iPod Touch 8GB gives you all the fun of the web’s best videos, with you in pocket-size. Explore Featured, Most Viewed, Most Recent, and Top Rated videos. Or search for the video you want with a keyword search. Once you find what you’re looking for, bookmark it to watch later. Email your favorite videos to your favorite people. Tap “Share” on any YouTube video detail page, and iPod touch creates an email with the video link already in it.
Maps
With a Wi-Fi connection, you can get directions, find local businesses, and check traffic. iPod touch finds your location using known Wi-Fi hotspots. It also finds points of interest by keyword: Search for “coffee” and iPod touch shows you every cafe nearby. Just type in an address and get directions from wherever you are. View a list of turn-by-turn directions, or see a highlighted map route. You also can mark specific locations and find the best route between them. Just like Google Maps on your computer, Maps on Apple iPod Touch 8GB lets you switch between views of Google map data, satellite images, and a hybrid of both. Maps will show you live traffic information, indicating traffic speed along your route in simple green, red, and yellow highlights. Multi-Touch makes navigating easy; Tap to zoom, pan, and change your view on the move.
Photos
Allows you to carry up to 25,000 of your favorite photos everywhere. Flick to scroll through thumbnails. Show thousands of photos from the palm of your hand. Tap to view full screen. Rotate to see a photo in landscape. Pinch to zoom in or out. Play slideshows, complete with music and transitions. Set a photo as your wallpaper, or share it in a MobileMe Gallery. If you receive a great image in an Email, save it to your photo library on iPod touch with all the other photos. You can set it as your wallpaper, share it on the web, or pass it on. iPod touch uses iTunes to sync images you have in iPhoto on a Mac or Adobe Photoshop Elements and Adobe Photoshop Album on a PC. Simply choose which photos or albums to sync to your iPod touch, then look at them (and share them) anywhere you go.
Calendar
With the Apple iPod Touch 8GB, it’s easy to make plans and to stay on schedule. Keep your schedule at your fingertips. Add events to your calendar. Set a custom alert. Write a note or two. Manage multiple color-coded calendars. You are able to do it all with just a few taps. Connect the iPod touch to your computer, and the events that you’ve created, automatically sync to Microsoft Outlook on a PC or iCal on a Mac. And all the events you’ve added on your computer can sync to the iPod touch. There are three ways to view your calendars. List view shows you all your appointments in the coming days as a comprehensive list, which you can scroll up and down. Day view displays one day’s worth of appointments visually. And Month view offers an at-a-glance look at an entire month.
Contacts
Save names, Email addresses, phone numbers, and more, all available at your fingertips. Build your contacts list on your Mac with Address Book or on your PC with Microsoft Outlook, then sync everything to your iPod touch using iTunes. You may also add contact information directly to your iPod touch from Email, maps, and web pages. Your computer is updated the next time you sync too. If you have a lot of contacts, a quick search shows you a list of matching names. Or scroll up and down your entire list to find the right contact. Just tap an Email address and the Mail application opens automatically.
If you keep your contacts organized into groups (such as co-workers, friends, family, and so on), the iPod touch will, too. And iPod touch can hold more than just names, Email addresses, and phone numbers. You also can track birthdays, websites, nicknames, and notes.
Stocks, Weather, and Notes
You can stay on top of it all. Stocks on iPod touch shows you the performance information for any stock you select. For more details about a stock’s performance, tap the Y! for instant access to Yahoo! Finance.
Weather
Check on worldwide weather at home or away. Add the cities you want, then flick back and forth to get six-day forecasts for each. Tap the Y! to open a Yahoo! city guide that shows you what’s happening, rain or shine.
Take Notes
No need for pen and paper. Use Notes on Apple iPod Touch 8GB to write yourself a quick note and keep important information on hand. There is even a built-in Email function that allows you to send notes to yourself or others.
Calculator
A Calculator on the iPod touch helps you keep track of your budget, or settle the restaurant bill. When you tap the Calculator icon, the iPod touch shows you a simple but handy application with addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and memory functions. Just like a pocket calculator. Your simple calculator doubles as a sophisticated scientific calculator. Just rotate it to landscape to access dozens of functions for solving complex science and math problems.
Nike + iPod
iPod touch now includes built-in Nike + iPod support. Just slip the Nike + iPod Sensor (available separately) into your Nike+ shoe and start your run. The sensor communicates wirelessly with your iPod touch, tracking your time, distance, and calories burned. It even gives you voice feedback on your progress.
This feature also works with new cardio equipment available in many fitness centers. Just look for treadmills, ellipticals, stair steppers, and stationary bikes that are Nike + Apple iPod Touch 8GB compatible. When you get back to your computer, sync your iPod touch via iTunes and transfer your exercise data to nikeplus.com, where you can track your workouts, set goals, and challenge friends.
Multi-Touch
The Apple iPod Touch 8GB features the same revolutionary interface as the iPhone. Built to take full advantage of the large 3.5-inch display, the Multi-Touch touchscreen 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, zoom in and out on a section of a web page, and control game elements precisely.
The Multi-Touch display layers a protective shield over a capacitive panel that senses your touch using electrical fields. It then transmits that information to the LCD screen below it. Software in the iPod touch enables the flick, tap, and pinch abilities.
Type with the Touchscreen Keyboard
The Apple iPod Touch 8GB features an intelligent touchscreen keyboard which is perfect for browsing the web in Safari, getting directions on a map, finding music on the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, searching for videos on YouTube, or adding new contacts. It analyzes keystrokes to suggest words as you type and correct spelling errors automatically. Also because it’s software based, it changes its keys to support typing in multiple languages.
Accelerometer
The iPod touch responds to motion using a built-in accelerometer. It detects when you rotate it from portrait to landscape, then automatically changes the contents of the display. So you immediately see the entire width of a web page, view a photo in its proper aspect ratio, or can control a game using only your movements.
The accelerometer inside the iPod touch uses three elements: a silicon mass, a set of silicon springs, and an electrical current. The silicon springs measure the position of the silicon mass using the electrical current. Rotating iPod touch causes a fluctuation in the electrical current passing through the silicon springs. The accelerometer registers these fluctuations and tells iPod touch to adjust the display accordingly. Accelerometer technology will really shine when you play games because it immerses you in the action.
Wireless
Get connected to the Internet with the Apple iPod Touch 8GB anywhere there’s a wireless network. The iPod touch will locate nearby wireless hotspots, including protected networks. If you’ve never used a particular network, it asks you to enter a password the first time, and it remembers the password from then on. So next time you’re within range, it connects automatically. Now you can send Email from a coffee shop. Surf the web at the airport. Shop for games from your couch. Browse, buy, and download music from the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store while you are at any wireless hotspot in your area.