32 GB capacity for 7,000 songs, 40,000 photos, or 40 hours of video
Up to 30 hours of music playback or 6 hours of video playback when fully charged
3.5-inch widescreen Multi-Touch display with 480 x 320 pixel resolution
Supports AAC, Protected AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible, Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV audio formats; H.264 and MPEG-4 video formats; JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF
One-year limited warranty with single incident of complimentary telephone technical support
Product Description
iPod touch is a great iPod, a great pocket computer, and a great portable game player. Listen to a mix of songs automatically put together by the new Genius Mixes feature. Watch a movie. Surf the web. View rich HTML email. Find your location and get directions with Google Maps. Discover games and apps you're sure to love with new Genius recommendations for apps. And since iPod touch now comes with the latest 3.1 software already installed, you can start using fun, convenient features right out of the box.
What's in the Box
Apple iPod touch 32 GB (3rd Generation), Apple Earphones with Remote and Mic, USB 2.0 cable, Dock adapter, Quick Start guide
Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews
"Great buy"2009-11-03
By Anthony J. Burks
Before I bought the 32 GB 3rd Gen. I had a 100 GB Zune. I was pleased with it, but it took way to long to upload music/videos to it. It took on average an hour to load one video onto my Zune, where as the same video takes only 1-3 min. to put on my Itouch. The video quality is great, and is very user friendly when it comes to browsing through the menus. I watch a lot of music videos, so one thing that I have noticed with the ITouch, is if you're watching a video and say you want to adjust the brightness, or anything outside of the video. As soon as you leave the video/audio stops, and when you go back to watch the video you either have to search for the video or scroll clear through the list to find it again... All in all, this is a great buy very fast, clean, easy to use.
"A Palm user's view of the iPod Touch"2009-11-02
By Gus Smedstad (Boston, MA)
I've been a heavy Palm user for some years now. Primarily I used my Palm TX as an eBook reader. That may seem pretty specialized, but I read a lot, and the Palm gave me a large selection of books and magazines in a package that was smaller and easier to handle than a single paperback. You'd think I'd be the Kindle's target audience, except that the Kindle is larger than what I want in an eBook reader.
I had a few other applications I used regularly, like a RPN calculator and a shopping-list utility. I played a few games on it, but nothing terribly memorable. What I did not use it for was the traditional "day planner" functionality that first sold PDAs. I kept addresses in it, but rarely needed them. The TX has a wireless web browser, but I gave up on it rather quickly. It simply could not handle the vast majority of internet pages at all, let alone gracefully.
Gradually, I talked myself into purchasing an iPod Touch. The truly functional web browser than sold the iPhone was sexy, but I didn't want to pay an iPhone's monthly fee. Sure, I have a cell phone, but I'm on an annualized prepaid plan because I spend less than $50 in air time a year, let alone $70 / month. Amazon now had a Kindle app for the iPhone / Touch, which meant I'd have a larger selection of books. The app store ads demonstrated the very large software support available for the iPhone / Touch. And Apple had decided that gaming was going to be a major focus for the Touch, which was quite different from the fringe areas that games always occupied for the Palm.
I've been using it for 3 weeks now, and I can say without question I made the right decision.
It's easier to use as an eBook reader. The Kindle reader is seamlessly integrated with Amazon, so it's trivial to get new books on the Touch, where it was a multi-step mild headache to do so with the Palm. The Touch is smaller and lighter, and the touch sensor is much more sensitive than the Palm's. The touch screen is capacitance rather than pressure based, so a light brush registers, where the Palm needed a definite tap, and frankly required the hard buttons to turn pages reliably.
My main regret in this area is that Amazon's Kindle app is so dead-set on letting me read only Amazon books. There's simply no way to transfer unprotected mobi-format books from other sources, unlike the physical Kindle device. Yes, I know this can be circumvented with Jailbreaking, but that's not available for 3rd generation Touches yet, and shouldn't really be necessary anyway. Other Touch applications that need to transfer files have found a way.
This has pushed me to using Stanza for all non-Amazon books, and I've really come it like it. It's just as seamlessly integrated with online book sources as the Kindle app, including the electronic book store I'd used upon until now, and some free sources for classic works like Feedbooks. Mobipocket, on which Kindle is based, was the best reader for the Palm, but frankly Stanza is even more polished.
The Touch really works as a web browser. I'm an information junkie. I like looking things up and chasing down stray threads. My pattern used to be that I'd think of something I wanted to know, and I'd make a mental note to look it up on the web later, and then I'd forget. Then I'd think of it again later, and I'd be annoyed that I hadn't looked earlier. Now the Touch is almost always in reach, and I simply look it up immediately. You wouldn't think the convenience factor would be that important, but in practice it's been great. It gracefully handles pages that are expecting much larger, higher-resolution displays.
It's in web browsing that the sloppiness of the human finger as a pointer is most evident. More than once I've wanted to select a specific block of text, such as in a search dialog, and found it difficult or impossible because the end of my finger is just a big, fat blob compared to a stylus or a mouse cursor. Still, I can see how the advantages of abandoning the stylus have outweighed the drawbacks.
The app store drives me a little crazy. It's great that there is so much software available, and that it's so easy to transfer to the Touch. While you can certainly transfer apps via iTunes, it's so much easier to just find it on the Touch directly and tell it to install. The problem is that it's very, very difficult to sift through that software, and that even the PC version of iTunes provides inadequate tools to search through it.
It's great that iTunes has Amazon-style user reviews, but you can't see the overall score for something on the search page, and you can't sort your search results by rating. And contrary to what I had heard, it's fairly obvious that Apple isn't acting as a draconian gatekeeper, since so much of it is, to be blunt, junk. This not to say good software doesn't exist. It's just that there's so much poor-to-iffy software hiding it.
This should be understood to be praising with faint damnation. The iPod Touch is a really slick device. It's a first-rate PDA, eBook reader, and web browsing device. And oh, it plays music, too.
- Gus
"A Great PMP"2009-11-02
By Seussboy
I have now had the iPod touch for about 2 weeks and I really enjoy using it! It has incredible features, the screen looks fabulous, and there's enough space in it to put 5 times the amount of music I currently own! Own of the features that I found really helpful was the Windows compatibility, because most of my music was on a Windows computer which was transferred flawlessly from the PC iTunes program. I have found so many fun apps and also many apps, such as Rhapsody, which I find myself using constantly to listen to songs I don't own. One unfortunate thing that seems to be a common trait in the iPod touch (I have used two and both had this flaw) is that there is space between the screen and the sides, which, when you are in a dark room, makes the light from the screen visible through those cracks. This may not bother you, but I am very picky about these kind of things and I find it a bit annoying when watching a video in a dark room; it's certainly not enough to make me give back the iPod but it is something to think about if that kind of thing bothers you.
The apps, the web browser and iTunes on the iPod are all features which I find myself using a lot. The apps, with more than 100,000, are so varied and extensive in choice, you can find apps which turn your iPod touch into everything from a practical alarm clock to, my personal favorite, a fart machine. Also, with the new processor, the speed difference loading games is very noticeable as I have a friend with an iPhone who, when I began playing a game, immediately exclaimed, "Wow! Yours is so fast!" The web browser is a great, fast browser and it loads complex pages in very little time. If you don't have a computer with you, this is a great alternative. iTunes on the iPod is one of the coolest things ever, as I use it mainly for podcasts which you can download directly onto the Touch. I have also used it to download a TV show, which looked fantastic on the 480:320 screen. Music quality, with myself not being an audiophile, sounds great to me, even on the included earphones with which many people seem to have a problem. The remote control on the included earphones is extremely helpful if you do not want to take the iPod out of your pocket.
I love my iPod touch. It is a great music, video, and game player, and with such an extensive app store there are so many uses for it. It can even send free text messages to cell phones! I highly suggest it for everyone who wants a product which, as everyone seems to say, does everything you need and more!
"iPod Touch 32 GB"2009-11-02
By CDS (WV)
I bought this for my daughter and she started using it immediately after it arrived. She loves it.
"Fun product"2009-11-02
By LaRae Perry (Taylorsville, UT USA)
This is a fun little toy!!! My husband loves it and I gave it to him for his birthday. He liked it so much and showed me how much fun you can have with it as well has having a calender to keep track of what you are doing each day, an alarm to wake you up or remind you of upcoming events, that I had him buy me one for my birthday. It is in the mail as I speak.
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