Features
The iPod Touch 4G comes in 3 different models. They are the 8GB, 32GB, and 64GB models.
They come with the A4 proccessor chip. They are all 4.4 x 2.3 x 0.28 inches. They weigh 3.56
ounces. They have a high resolution retina display. They can perform multi-tasking. They have
both a front and rear facing cameras. The camera is 5 mega pixels and it can record HD video.
They do have wifi and bluetooth capabilities. With the new 4.3 firmware update they can even print
wirelessly and use airplay. They come with a built in rechargeable litium ion battery that can last
up to 40 hours of audio time or 7 hours of video time. Apple also added a mic on the bottom of
it so you can use it for Facetime, voice control, and other apps that use it.
Apps
The iPod Touch supports a wide number of apps. There are over 350,00 apps in the Apple app store.
These range from games to guides. You can find an app for just about everything. A new feature
with the iPod is the ability to make app folders. You can name these folders and each can hold 12 apps.
With the A4 proccessor chip the iPod Touch can run apps smoothly and make it look amazing. Since the
iPod Touch uses multi-tasking it uses the least amount of energy possible to run apps in the background
still at top speed so you can have something downloading in one app and go play a game or do something
else while you wait without a downgrade in performance. The iPod Touch comes with 21 pre-installed
apps that were customized by Apple for maximum ease-of-use.
They are:
- App Store: The app store is where you go to download all of your apps. It is organized by many different sections. You can look at the newest, the most popular, search by catagory, or just search for an app that you saw on tv or somewhere.
- iTunes Store: The iTunes store is the place to go if you want to download some new music or a movie. You don't have to go onto your computer and download the music or movie you want and then put it onto your iPod anymore. You just go to the iTunes app and select whatever you want to download and then just wait for it to finish and it will show up in your music or video app.
- Camera: The camera app is new to the iPod Touch. Here you can take high quality videos and pictures. You can even look at other videos and pictures that you have taken.
- Facetime: Facetime is also a new addition to the iPod Touch. It is a video chatting app that lets you video chat with other Facetime users over a wifi connection.
- Voice Memos: The voice memos app lets you make your own notes by using your voice. You can save them and listen to them later, trim them, and send them via email.
- Safari: Safari is the standard web browser for the iPod Touch. With the new 4.3 firmware update that was released, Safari became a whole lot faster. In Safari you can manage your history, make bookmarks, and even add web apps to your home page that will take you directly to that page whenever you click on it.
- Music: The music app is where all of your music is stored. You can sort it by song title, author, genre, composers, or compositions. It even allows you to make playlists of you music. Another feature is the music genius. The music genius feature lets you pick a song and then it will select other songs from your music library that are like it and make a playlist of about 20 songs that are like it.
- Video: The video app is where all of your videos are stored. It seperates them into movies, tv shows, and music videos.
- Game Center: Game Center is a new addition to the iPod Touch. It keeps track of you scores in games that are Game Center enabled and post them so that everyone can see. You can add people as friends and challenge them in games to see who is the best.
- Youtube: Apple designed an app for Youtube specifically for the iPod. They made it easy to use and to find whatever video that you want,
- Mail: The mail app is designed to be extremely organized. You can add all of your email accounts and look at each of them seperately or all at once. You can send, reply, and forward messages. You can even open up and view most document formats.
- Pictures: This app shows you all of your pictures and videos. It even lets you make a slideshow of all of your pictures.
- Notes: The notes app lets you create and edit as many notes as you want.
- Stocks: The stock app lets you follow and check up on whatever stocks you have invested in or are looking at in a user friendly interface.
- Contacts: The contacts app lets you store all of your contacts and tons of different information about whoever you need to contact.
- Settings: This app lets you change some of the general setting and settings for some of the main apps. It also lets you set up parental controls if needed.
- Weather: The weather app uses Yahoo weather to give you up to date weather. You can add as many cities as you like and scroll through them with ease.
- Calendar: The calendar app lets you create events on a calendar, add notes about the event, and it even notifies you when you come to day of the event.
- Clock: The clock app has a world time section, an alarm clock section, a stop watch section, and a timer section.
- Maps: The maps app lets you see your location and also lets you explore the world as well. You can even use it to find a certain place and get directions to there.