Review: iPod touch 8GB
iPod touch 8GB
Junior iPhone gets achingly curvy
Price R3298
When Apple’s original iPod touch hit the market in 2007, it set new benchmarks as a portable entertainment device and delivered a whole new paradigm in the interface of the handheld PC.
The world is now more familiar with this sleek interface with the rapid explosion of iPhone users spreading across the globe, as the touch features the same large, crisp Multitouch screen and OS environment, just updated to version 2.2 with a few key additions which we’ll get to soon, but is if anything even more appealingly styled. It’s slimmer than an iPhone, although this second-generation model is actually half a millimetre thicker than its predecessor, but the contour of the shiny silver backplate fools both your eyes and hands into thinking it’s shrunk.
A couple of consistent criticisms of the original touch just kept on recurring in user reviews across the globe when it launched, so Apple took an altogether evolutionary approach in creating this version, addressing all of these shortcomings and adding a ton of stuff users hadn’t even realised they really wanted as yet. The aesthetic redesign was subtle but effective, while the addition of a pair of slim buttons along the edge now make adjusting volume on-the-go a cinch. Meanwhile the headphones jack was made capable of accepting microphone input as well, and a built-in speaker was inserted, although you’d never know to look at it.
Although cosmetic or elementary user interface enhancements, these changes make the latest-generation iPod touch even more of a pleasure to use – surely the best portable entertainment device available on the planet in fact. But beyond just the hardware, it’s the new software environment which really thrusts the touch into a competitive plane upon which it finds itself completely alone, unrivalled and unchallenged, as the leader of this particular technology pack.
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