The iPod is a Portable media player developed by Apple Inc and manufactured by Foxconn (OEM). Apple developed iPod using Portal Player’s reference platform based on two ARM cores. The iPod is first launched on October 23, 2001. The music can be transferred to the device using Apple’s iTunes software or other open source software’s from computer’s using certain version of Apple’s Macintosh and Microsoft Windows operating system. The iPod can play many file formats, such as audio format like AAC/M4A, MP3, AIFF, WAV, Audible Audio Book, Apple Lossless, & Protected AAC and image format like JPEG, BMP, TIFF, GIF, & PNG. Some of the games like Brick, Solitary etc, can be played in it. There are various versions of it iPod touch is one of them.
The touch screen iPod Touch is a portable media player and Wi-Fi mobile platform. It was launched on September 5, 2007. The iPod Touch is the first one to have wireless access to the iTunes store and Apple’s App store, enabling to download or purchase the content directly to it. The iPod Touch gives the multi-touch graphical user interface to the iPod line. It has features like external volume controls, a built-in speaker, a contoured back, built-in Nike+, Bluetooth support, and the ability to connect a microphone. It is available with 8GB, 16GB, 32GB or 64GB of flash memory. It is available only in shady steel color. It has a slim rectangular shape with rounded edge and consists of 3.5-inch (diagonal) widescreen multi-touch display. In iPod Touch the user can play games, tap into their music, watch movies, run apps, and can take their email and the internet with them. Its capacity is up to 1,750 songs and 10 hours video. It has a battery life of up to 30 hours audio playback and 6 hours video playback. Its size is 4.3 x 2.4 x 0.33 inches
(110 x 61.8 x 8.5 mm) and weighs 4.05 ounces (115 grams). All iPod Touch models include applications such as Music, Videos, and Photos etc. It costs from 8GB $199, 32GB $299 to 64GB $399.