We understand. It’s hard to ignore the stink of hype. It’s difficult
to disregard the dancing silhouettes, and the Steve Jobs smirk, and
Bono, and “I’m a Mac”, and the saturation media coverage every time
something stumbles out of Cupertino with a lowercase i before its name.
You’d be perfectly within your rights to permanently X Apple from your
world the way Charles Manson X’ed himself from ours. We’re tempted to
do the same, pretty much every day.
But the thing is…the iPod Touch is actually, well, not too bad.
Maybe even good.
Possibly even awesome.
Hey,
believe us, it hurts us more to say than it hurts you to hear. We’ve
tried and tried to find some reason to hate the damn thing on its own
merits. But man. A full web browser, a 3.5” widescreen display, that
super-scientific-gyro-atomic motor that rotates the screen content when
you turn the iPod Touch, all in a sturdy and attractive package? The
best we could come up with hate-wise was the fact that people look kind
of goofy when they do that little pinchy-finger navigation move, and
the high price. And we just killed that last reason ourselves by
offering it for eighty bucks below list.
So while we’re
standing by our ridicule of the pinchy-finger maneuver, it’s just not
enough. We give up. Fine, iPod Touch, you win. You’re wonderful, you’re
marvelous, you’re God’s gift to media pirates. But don’t get too smug,
Apple – you’ll never win us over to the iPod Shuffle.
Warranty: 60 day Third Party Limited Warranty
Features:
- 8gb of storage space for music, videos, and photos that can fit in your pocket
- Multi touch interface lets you control everything using only your fingers
- 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
- Connect to the Internet anywhere there’s a Wi-Fi network and see websites the way they were designed to be seen with Safari
Specifications:
- Up
to 22 hours of music playback and, up to 5 hours of video playback
after about 3 hours of charge time (1.5-hour fast charge to 80%
capacity)
- 3.5-inch (diagonal) widescreen Multi-Touch display
- Wi-Fi (802.11b/g)
- Audio Support – AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4), Apple Lossless, WAV, and AIFF
- Photo Support – Syncs iPod-viewable photos in JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, PSD (Mac only), and PNG formats
- Video
Support – H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per
second, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC
audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file
formats; H.264 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per
second, Baseline Profile up to Level 3.0 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats
- Size – 4.3×2.4×0.31 inches (110×61.8×8 mm)
- 4.2 ounces (120 grams)
In the box:
- 8gb iPod Touch
- iPod USB Cable
- Earbuds
- Warranty Information