Apple iPod touch 8 GB without Software Updates
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Manufacturer: Apple Computer
Model: MA623LL/A
Binding: Electronics
Publisher: Apple Computer
Label: Apple Computer
Features for Apple iPod touch 8 GB without Software Updates:
- (not the iPhone) Does not ship with the new software applications announced at MacWorld 2008; software upgrades are available via the online Apple store for $20
- 3.5-inch widescreen display
- Wi-Fi web browsing
- Music downloads from iTunes
- Measures 4.3 x 2.4 x 0.31 inches (H x W x D), weighs 4.2 ounces
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Editorial Review
The iPod touch features Apple's revolutionary multi-touch user interface that enables you to find and enjoy all of your music, videos, and more on its gorgeous widescreen display with just the touch of a finger. First introduced on iPhone, the multi-touch interface uses pioneering new software to present the perfect user interface for each application.
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 iPod touch also includes Wi-Fi wireless networking, the first on any iPod, and three amazing applications that use it: Safari, the most advanced browser on any mobile device, lets you wirelessly view web pages just as they look on your computer, and features Google Search or Yahoo! oneSearch; Apple's YouTube application lets users wirelessly watch over 10 million free videos from the Internet's most popular video website; and the new iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store lets you wirelessly browse, preview and buy songs and albums from the most popular online music store in the world. And to top it all off, the iPod touch is an unbelievable eight millimeters thin.
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 on television shows, anywhere. Enjoy video podcasts. Play music videos. All using multi-touch technology that lets you bring up onscreen controls and go widescreen (or back to full screen) with a tap.
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.
Safari
With Apple's Safari browser built in, iPod touch is the only iPod that gives you wireless access to the web, everywhere you go. See websites the way they were designed to be seen. Sync your bookmarks or add a few as you go. Search the web using the touchscreen keyboard. Zoom in and out by tapping the multi-touch display.
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.
iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store
With iPod touch, you can discover new music anywhere. 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, and Just Added lists. Or find exactly what you're looking for with a quick search. Tap a song to preview it or tap Buy to purchase it. From anywhere.
Starbucks Music
You walk into a Starbucks. Order your latté. 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.
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, entering calendar events, 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.
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.
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Customer Reviews
Got this for my wife for her Birthday... 
2008-06-14
She doesn't use all the features, but what she does use she in the envy of everyone around her. COOL GADGET!
She really liked this gift.
I-Touch 2008-06-13
I bought this as an after thought for my husband for Christmas. It was the best present ever. He can't get enough of it. He uses it for music, phone book, notebook, photo album, surfs the web, and uses it at work to run an important reference program that he accesses on the web. He didn't even notice that I got him any other Christmas presents for at least a month.
Love it!! 2008-06-11
Bought this as a gift for 'myself' so that I could put training material on it, and half the time I can't find it because one of my kids is using it! Great product and graphics. Quick delivery. Would definitely do business with this vendor again.
IPOD Touch 2008-06-02
My daughter doesn't put it down. Don't like the internet connection. Hard to read the screen at times.
Cream of the crop music and video player 2008-05-30
These are expensive yes, but worth every penny. Great music playback, excellent small screen video playback. No problems so far after 6 months use. Only beef is Apple charges for features updates, that really should be free in my thinking. The software update adds only mail for me in the way I want to use the Touch and $20 is to much to pay for that feature when I can read e-mail online too. Itunes also will not allow you to re-download a paid for title so make sure you back up by syncing to the computer and back your music up to DVDs.
Mr. 
2008-07-10
I have to recharge the battery evey 4hrs after less than 40 min. talking time, and the WiFi is real slow. I CALL THIS A DESIGN WITH NO COMMON SENSE. Do not buy it yet! Wait until Apple fix the battery major problem first hand.
very cool but be prepared to buy other neccesities for it! 
2008-06-28
This is my first Apple product. I used to own a Creative Zen (very cool device) but I cracked the screen and needed a new mp3/video player.
I was planning on spending $150 for another 8 gig Zen but I had some extra cash and decided to try this.
This device is very cool. The touch screen is nice (but gets dirty easily) I had to buy some clear covers (.50 each) and you definitely need a case. I recommend the DLO HipCase Leather Folio for iPod touch. Great case.
The biggest problem I find with this device is iTunes.
iTunes sucks.
With my Zen I could dump anything on to my device. Dealing with iTunes is a headache.
Unfortunately you pretty much have to use itunes unless you want to jump through a 1000 hoops.
But the product is great. I recommend it. Highly.
daughter loves it 2008-06-27
got this 4 my daughter and she loves it one of the cool things is that you can get internet on it i didnt know that when i got it 4 her. she loves it
I love this thing 2008-06-27
it works like every other new ipod coming out but with wifi. its kinda like an iphone without the phone and the edge internet. has a few glitches and freezes sometimes though.
Cool Idea but a little tough to use at times 2008-06-15
This is a really cool toy and is very useful at times especially the built in web browser and wireless antenna. Only drawbacks ive found so far is that it is nearly impossible to use while driving, running, walking, chewing gum, breathing... etc... the touch screen is clever but is frustrating at best. I also wish i had held out and got a 16 GB or even the 32 they offer now since it is almost full already.
