The Apple iPod Touch Review (4th Generation)

!±8± The Apple iPod Touch Review (4th Generation)

It seems that Apple products are everywhere, with the trendy iPhones and iPads racking up market attention like few other gadgets before them. One of Apple's more popular products has always been the iPod Touch and a new generation of this little guy is set to send tongues wagging yet again.

The Apple iPod Touch, now in its fourth generation of release, is the Cupertino company's personal media player and portable digital assistant. The Touch is essentially an iPod but with one significant advantage: the media player features graphical user interface access, which essentially accounts for the "touch" part of the product's name.

The Apple iPod Touch features a glass multi-touch display that allows for full interaction with the product's many features. The touch and display features have been designed by FingerWorks, a gesture recognition company founded by two researchers from the University of Delaware. The use of the FingerWorks tech in the new model is really what makes this product something special.

The fourth generation of the device features a front-facing camera for the video calling software known as FaceTime. The new Touch has support not only for crisp 720p video recording but 960 x 720 still photos using a back camera, making it a vastly flexible product that goes well beyond simply playing MP3s.

The new model also rocks an improved chip with the A4 - the very same A4 chip powering iPhone 4 and the iPad. This improved inner tech, along with the use of the retina display from the iPhone 4, helps make the fourth generation of the Apple iPod Touch one of the finest versions of this product to hit shelves. Even the battery's received an upgrade, with a full ten more hours support for audio from the third generation Apple iPod Touch unit.

Using a Wi-Fi only platform, the new model offers plenty of versatility in a useful, sleek-looking unit that may have BlackBerry owners reconsidering. With pre-orders racking up, the Apple iPod Touch's fourth generation will doubtlessly find its way into the hands of many right in time for the all-too-fast approaching holiday shopping rush.