Apple i. Pod touch (2. Review & Rating. In 2. 01. 0, Apple's fourth- generation i. Pod touch got two cameras—one for shooting HD videos and photos, one for Face. This is a pretty ridiculous article. You claim that the iPod Classic is the best MP3 player, yet the only thing you've ever compared it to is a phone. Zune was a brand of digital media products and services marketed by Microsoft. Zune included a line of portable media players, digital media player software for. At Microsoft’s Build conference, the dorkiest of companies put on a big show, complete with fog machines and fancy lights, in order to show it’s a cool competitor. AVC Windows products include Any DVD Converter, Any Video Converter, Any DVD Cloner Plaitnum, Any DVD Cloner Express, Any Video Editor, NoteBurner Audio Converter. ![]() Time chats. In 2. Pod touch are all based on the new i. OS 5, which brings with it i. Message, i. Cloud, notifications, and Game Center enhancements. Physically, the player is unchanged, except now it's offered in white. The high- res Retina display remains crisp, colorful, and highly responsive to touch. Since the i. Pod nano ($1. GB touch is the least- expensive video- playing i. Pod, starting at $1. The other two models remain $2. GB) and $3. 99 (6. GB). Despite the hefty price, the i. Pod touch is still, by far, the best portable media player you can buy—and it retains our Editors' Choice. Design. There's a new white model, which is white on the front face and mirrored on the back, but the touch retains its 2. HWD) and 3. 6 ounces. Apple's custom A4 chip powers the device, and the super- sharp Retina display remains 3. The touch's left- hand panel houses two Volume buttons. A headphone jack, a speaker, and a 3. USB computer syncing are on the bottom of the player. The Power button sits up top, and the Home button remains below the display on the front panel. There are two camera lenses—one toward the top of the display, and one on the back, in the top left corner, which is accompanied by a mic. The mirrored back panel is excellent for checking your teeth on the sly, but it picks up fingerprints very easily. In the box, you'll find a Quick Start Guide, a proprietary USB cable for connecting the touch to your computer, and a pair of Apple signature earbuds. It's a good idea to upgrade those bass- deprived, ill- fitting earbuds to earphones, and our Ultimate Guide to Headphones is a good place to start your search for the right pair. User Interface. With the inclusion of i. OS 5, the i. Pod touch now becomes a messaging device. It can also use the new i. Cloud function, which features i. Tunes in the Cloud, Photo Stream, and Documents in the Cloud, so you can share content wirelessly between your computer, your i. Pod touch, your i. Phone, and your i. Pad. Another useful new feature is Notifications, which works with just about any relevant app to keep you informed about updates and friends' responses. For more about what i. OS 5 can do, check out PCMag's full review, or read on here to discover some of the nuances that improve the i. Pod touch's performance. Audio and Video. Navigating the music menus on the i. Pod touch is completely intuitive. First off, there are so many ways to do it—using Cover. Flow, searching Artist or Song, or perusing playlists. Apple has made everything fast and easy—scroll song or artist lists by dragging a finger or skip ahead to a letter on the scrollable alphabet on the right side of the screen. The Now Playing view is a showcase for album art, and you can play music while you surf the Web, view photos, or even play games. By itself, the i. Pod touch is a fine audio device—plug in a pair of good- quality headphones and you won't be disappointed with the frequency range and overall audio quality. To my continuing disappointment, Apple still offers its stock, subpar earbuds. Audiophiles listening to Lossless tracks on the touch will be best served by leaving the EQ off. The settings Apple provides are presets; there's still no user- customizable EQ. Extra features like Shake to Shuffle, Volume Limit, and Sound Check can all be enabled or disabled easily. The i. Tunes Store can be accessed via Wi- Fi for on- the- spot music and video purchases. Video looks fantastic on the Retina display. You. Tube and Netflix will not look as sharp as video purchased from the i. Tunes Store, of course, but the speed with which video can be cued up without stuttering is impressive. Again, this is dependent on the strength of your Wi- Fi signal. The touch integrates Bluetooth 2. EDR and 8. 02. 1. Wi- Fi, though 8. GHz band. Nike+ i. Pod support is also included for those who want to use the touch to help keep in shape. Camera. The rear- facing camera records video in HD (7. Still photos max out at 9. This amounts to less than a megapixel, and compared with the i. Phone 4. S ($1. 99. An onscreen slide control toggles between still and video camera modes, and an icon in the lower left takes you to your gallery, where you can peruse your photos and videos. Video footage plays back onscreen with a scroll tool that shows a thumbnail timeline of your footage, making skipping to a certain spot easy. You can trim your footage on the player by dragging your finder over the thumbnail timeline of the footage and selecting segments to cut. Capturing video is achieved by pressing the red Record button onscreen when in video camera mode, and tapping it again to end recording. The screen acts as your viewfinder and everything moves along in real time without stuttering. Low- light situations will make for some noisy footage, but in well- lit scenarios, the touch's video looks colorful and crisp. Uploading your video to You. Tube or sending it as an email attachment, provided you have a Wi- Fi connection, is made easy with a button in the lower left- hand corner of the screen that walks you through a streamlined process to do either. Unlike the i. Phone 4. S's camera, the i. Pod touch's has no flash, which makes low- light—particularly back- lit—scenarios rather challenging. You get 5x digital zoom for photos, which is activated by moving the slider on the screen above the on- screen shutter button, but zooming in creates noticeable artifacts. Landscape shots in adequate lighting look decent for a camera built into a player, and well- lit portraits look sharper than you'd expect, provided you don't zoom in too far. Like videos, photos can be sent out immediately via email, or you can assign a photo to be your new wallpaper or a friend's contact photo, all by pressing the lower left- hand button when viewing your image. Message and Face. Timei. OS 5 brings i. Message to the i. Pod touch. If you use an i. Phone, the difference between an i. Message and a text message is pretty much undetectable—they appear the same in your Messages app. However, i. Message uses Wi- Fi rather than a carrier's signal, which means that Wi- Fi devices, like the i. Pod touch, are invited to the party. Not invited: Devices not running i. OS 5. Still, any friends of yours with an i. Phone, i. Pod touch, or i. Pad can now be sent virtual texts via i. Message—all you need is a wireless signal. This means you can send them photo and video straight from your i. Pod touch, too. Face. Time still works quite well—images are fairly crisp and clear, aided by the smaller screen, and it's easy to understand what your chat partner is saying. Of course, this is contingent on your Wi- Fi signal being strong, but in ideal scenarios, it's not much different than video chatting on a laptop. However, Google Talk has a bit of an advantage over Face. Time, in that it works across multiple operating systems. You can, for instance, chat on Google Talk between a Motorola Xoom ($5. Apple laptop; Face. Time, like i. Message, only works between i. OS devices and some Apple computers. But what began as a portable media player with no camera now has video chat and virtual text messaging capabilities—even with its i. OS 5- only limitations, that is quite impressive. Gaming and Apps. In 2. Apple introduced Game Center, a feature that encourages you to find a friend—either someone you know or a stranger with an i. Pod touch or an i. Phone—to play real- time games. Your success (or failure) earns you a ranking you can use for bragging rights or to seek out opponents with similar skill levels. With i. OS 5, Game Center gets a few new features, like the ability to purchase new games from within the app and add photos to your profile. Meanwhile, the App Store, which is accessed via Wi- Fi, is loaded with single- player, accelerometer- driven games like Zombie Highway, that look fantastic on the Retina display. There are more than 5.
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