iPod Touch

Launched in October 2001, the iPod mp3 player captured the attention of millions around the world. Each year, Apple, who makes the iPod, released better models incorporating color displays, the ability to display pictures, video, and better and better storage capacity and battery life.

At the Wheatley household, we watched 14 different classes of iPod come through the development pipeline, but we never purchased one because we knew there would be one that would be worth waiting for.

The only mp3 player we had ever purchased was purchased in 2002 or 2003 and was a Rio 128 Megabyte mp3 player. Very small compared to the iPods being released then, but at least it was something within our price range.

When the iPod Touch was released in September of 2007, we knew that was the iPod we wanted. The iPod Touch has the ability to connect to the Internet using the Safari web browser, has a direct interface into YouTube, the ability to play videos (on a much larger screen than the previous iPods, play music, and much, much more. One of the most attractive features is the ability to touch the icons on the screen to navigate through menus instead of a click wheel as seen on older iPods.

We scrimped and saved using birthday and Christmas money to get the iPod Touch, and we give it an A+.

Not long after getting the iPod Touch, we got an iPod 1GB Shuffle for free for opening a bank account (we had the chance of getting a Nano or another Touch, but ended up with the Shuffle which has been great for exercising. Both have been fun and have made us into Apple fans.

Reference:

IPod. (2008, January 12). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 14:50, January 12, 2008, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IPod&oldid=183754100