iPod touch Features

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Sleek new design
iPod touch feels even better in your hand thanks to the stunningly thin, contoured enclosure made of polished stainless steel.

Built-in speaker

A built-in speaker lets you hear the music, dialogue, and action without headphones, perfect for casual listening.

Rock ’n’ run with Nike+

iPod touch offers built-in wireless support for Nike + iPod. All you need to do is insert a Nike + iPod sensor into your shoe and start running.

Volume controls

Volume buttons are built into the left side of iPod touch, giving you easy access to the most frequently used controls.

Longer battery life

Now you can keep on rocking (and watching and playing) even longer. Improved battery life means iPod touch provides up to 36 hours of audio playback or 6 hours of video playback — enough to watch three or four movies between charges.

Touch your music.

Remember what it felt like to flip through your CD or record collection? Cover Flow brings that feeling back. Just turn iPod touch on its side and flick through your music to find the album you want to hear. Tap the cover to flip it over and display a track list. Tap again to start the music. Even view the lyrics while you’re listening.

A musical Genius

Say you’re listening to a song you really like and want to hear other tracks that go great with it. 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 give it another go. Count on Genius to create a mix you wouldn’t have thought of yourself.

Movies and TV shows

Carry hours of video with you and watch it on a crisp, clear 3.5-inch color widescreen display. Need ideas? From Hollywood blockbusters to independent favorites, there’s something for everyone at the iTunes Store. Download and watch movies with a few clicks. Prefer TV shows? Buy a single episode or an entire season’s worth all at once.

While watching your video, tap the display to bring up the onscreen controls. You can play/pause, view by chapter, and adjust the volume. You can also use the new volume controls on the left side of iPod touch. Want to switch between widescreen and full screen? Simply tap the display twice.

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iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store

The built-in wireless capability in iPod touch gives you access to iTunes, where you can choose from millions of songs and podcasts with a tap. Browse New Releases, What’s Hot, and Genres. Take a look at Top Songs and Top Albums. Peruse podcasts. 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. Stream and download podcasts for free. Everything starts downloading instantly, and you can keep tabs on its progress by tapping the Downloads button.

Sync it back

When you connect iPod touch to your computer, the music and podcasts you downloaded on the go sync to your iTunes library. If you’ve partially downloaded a song or podcast to iPod touch, your computer completes the download automatically.

iPod touch at Starbucks

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.

Games on ipod touch

Developers all over the world are creating exciting games unlike anything you’ve ever seen on an iPod or mobile device. Many games come alive with stunning 3D graphics and immerse you in the action with the advanced technologies in iPod touch. There’s even a speaker built in, so you can hear all the action.

Many games for iPod touch use Multi-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. Or pinch to enlarge or shrink your view, rotate your character left or right, or just tap to make a selection.

The built-in accelerometer actually responds to your movements, so you can tilt and turn your iPod touch to control the action. It’s perfect for racing games, where your entire iPod touch acts as a steering wheel, and for tap-and-tilt games such as Super Monkey Ball, in which your character rolls to your movements.

Even if games aren’t your thing, there’s an iPod touch application for you. Thousands of applications in almost every category — entertainment, social networking, sports, photography, reference, and travel — are a tap away at the App Store.

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Home Screen

Arrange the icons 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.

No matter where you are on iPod touch, one press of the Home button takes you to the Home screen. You can also take a shortcut from any Home screen back to your first Home screen by pressing the Home button.

Whenever you download an application from the App Store, a new icon appears on your Home screen. And 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. Not happy with how they’re organized? Reorder them any way you want by dragging them around the screen.

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Safari
iPod touch is the only iPod with 802.11b/g wireless access to the web. Whenever you’re connected via Wi-Fi, you can access your favorite websites to read news, check scores, pay bills, and go shopping.

iPod touch syncs your bookmarks from your PC or Mac, so you can access favorite sites quickly. It has Google and Yahoo! search built in, so it’s easy to find what you’re looking for on the web.

Get a closer look at any web page by zooming in and out with a tap or a pinch of the Multi-Touch display. View websites in portrait or landscape. Rotate iPod touch 90 degrees and the website rotates, too.

If you check a website frequently — a favorite newspaper, blog, or sports site — why not create a Home screen icon for it? Make Web Clips with Safari, and your favorite sites are always just a tap away.