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Ipod touch
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iPod touch – Pocketwatch MP3 player from Apple Inc.. essentially multifunctional palmtop operating system iPhone OS, presented on September 5, 2007. It is the first iPod with built-in Wi-Fi, with direct access (wireless only) to the Internet, including through the network browser, as well as a special browser YouTube without the help of Adobe Flash plug-and shop online iTunes Store.
It is available in 3 versions: 8, 16 and 32 GB (32 GB added 5 February 2008), all measuring 110 x 61.8 mm x 8 and 3.5-inch LCD touchscreen resolution of 480 x 320 pixels (163 ppi).
This recalls the appearance of iPod and similar iPhone is operated with a touchscreen interface Multi-Touch. The player is based on the same iPhone OS operating system, now in version 1.1.4, and includes a browser, Safari.
iPod has a touch interface located in the following languages: English, Polish, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Danish, French, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, German, Swedish and Italian, as well as keyboards for English (in U.S. or British version), Polish, Danish, Finnish, French, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, German, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish and Italian. In addition all versions are equipped with the keyboard in addition to the Japanese in the letter whether the Turkish Icelandic, with the disregard of ð and þ.
The device differs from iPhone’a in lack of a built-in GSM phone, Bluetooth, speaker (for that is able to emit sounds as simple navigational aids or notifications), a microphone, a mechanical control with volume, and the camera. Also, a set of applications supplied by the manufacturer was poorer in a set of applications delivered from iPhone remunerated until the installation of additional applications (E-mail, maps, notes and weather Stock Exchange), after a possible upgrade the firmware version for at least 1.1.3. It is much thinner than iPhone’a and its structure is simplified newer and at the same time, and unlike iPhone, has a standard audio output.
iPod touch has only two mechanical switches – in principle, the programmable home (back to the main menu; and sleep / wake (standby return to work). Both pressed and held simultaneously for 10 seconds causes disabling the device and return to base without losing files and data (deep reset). iPod touch also has two connectors – a standard iPod connector, linking it through cable attached to the PC in a USB 2.0 or other device such as power supply, car, a set of speakers with amplifier, a microphone (or all at once), and mini audio output jack 3.5 mm.
Regardless of the official iPod touch and its equipment and the original destination, there are already available unofficial modifications and adaptations in order to use it to carry out telephone conversations on the Internet or use software no released by Apple, including, for example, OpenSSH or some widgets available so far only on iPhonie. The situation with software touch the iPod is now in flux, as it has already been made available from 6 March 2008, version 2.0 beta 1, a joint iPhone OS & iPhone SDK for iPod and iPhone’a touch, allowing the provision of software by anyone, although only through a repository maintained in Apple Inc. responsibility. For example, Sun Microsystems has already announced the possibility of making available the use of software in Java for iPhone’a and touch through the SDK, and Electronic Arts has revealed the proposals games using a built-in accelerometer, originally built-in automatic change to the vertical image depending on whether the orientation of the iPod touch iPhone’a terms of the land (or other local acceleration).
Due to technical changes introduced by Apple Inc.., There is incompatibility between the iPod touch the 2005 model of Apple’s Universal dock (stand / adapter with video output). While the iPod touch inserted into the 2005 Universal dock Apple will continue to effectively powered, plug into a separate video screen requires a special cable now and 2007, Apple’s Universal dock. The situation was caused by the introduction of a special integrated circuit in iPod touch.