During the Apple Press Event held last September 1, the New iPod Touch was revealed by Steve Jobs in Californa.
As in years past, the iPod touch has followed in the footprint of the iPhone. The new iPod touch is almost like an iPhone 4, without the phone. Even thinner than the original. The latest iPod touch incorporates Apple’s Retina Display, the Apple A4 CPU, and three-axis Gyroscope, and a digital camera, both on the back and in the front for FaceTime.
What was mentioned by Jobs was that the iPod touch is now the number one selling iPod, having now surpassed the iPod nano. Apple sells around 10 million iPods most quarters, double that during the holiday season, so we are talking iPhone levels of sales.
Further, according to Jobs, the iPod touch is now the world’s leading handheld gaming platform, outselling both Sony and Nintendo devices combined. To that end, Apple’s Game Center will also be coming to the iPod touch.
In terms of battery life, Jobs declared the iPod touch will have 40 hours of playback.
Quoted from apple.com,
Apple® today announced the new iPod touch®, packed with incredible new features including Apple’s stunning Retina™ display, FaceTime® video calling, HD video recording, Apple’s A4 chip, 3-axis gyro, iOS 4.1 and Game Center—all combined in the thinnest and lightest iPod touch ever. The new iPod touch features up to 40 hours of music playback and seven hours of video playback on a single battery charge.*
“We’ve put our most advanced technology inside the new iPod touch,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Whether you’re listening to music, playing games, making FaceTime video calls, browsing the web, capturing HD video or watching TV shows and movies, the new iPod touch with its Retina display, A4 chip and 3-axis gyro is more fun than ever.”
You can watch Steve Jobs official presentation of the new iPod touch at Apple.com.
Here are the main features of the new iPod touch:
- It has the iPhone’s Retina Display, a 3.5-inch IPS-based that has a razor-sharp 326ppi resolution, that’s 960 x 640 pixels.
- It can record 720p high definition video and take photos with its back camera.
- It can FaceTime with other iPod touches and iPhone 4s, using its front camera.
- It runs at the same speed of the iPhone 4, using the same Apple A4 chip.
- It incorporates the same 3-axis gyroscope of the iPhone 4, which makes motion tracking more precise than just the accelerometer.
- It will have iOS 4.1 built-in.
- It has a built-in speaker and microphone.
The back camera can record H.264 video at 720 lines of resolution (720p) and 30 frames per second but the resolution for photography is not as high as the iPhone 4. Just the same 960 x 720 pixels of the video, far from the gorgeous sensor of the iPhone. also, it has the front camera, which is identical to the iPhone 4, capturing VGA at 30 frames per second for videoconferencing action.
A not-so-obvious change is the microphone. The new iPhone is there for FaceTime, but it will have other users as well, like Skype. This new feature may turn the iPod touch into an phone replacement, for those people who don’t need to be in constant voice contact—a collective that is increasing quickly, as younger generations move from voice to text-based communication, either via chat, Twitter, or Facebook. (via Gizmodo)
The new iPod Touch sells for $229 (8GB), $299 (32GB) and $399 (64GB) models and will be available next week through the Apple Store® (www.apple.com), Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers.
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