iPod Touch is a portable media player designed and marketed by Apple and that was released on September 5, 2007 as part of an event dubbed "The Beat Goes On", which featured the introduction of Coverflow to the iPod line and The Beatles to the iTunes Store.
It is the 5th model in the iPod line released by Apple.
It is wider than the 2nd generation iPod Nano, but has the same aluminam casing.
More Newton than iPod, more tablet than music player, the new Apple Inc. iPod touch unveiled this week by CEO Steve Jobs breaks into a new hardware category that should scare the ultra-mobile PC/Nokia Tablet world.
Apple's much-anticipated launch of the iPod touch this week heralds a new era for Apple's
wildly popular line of music and video players. The iPod, which emerged
first as nothing more than a portable music player -- albeit one
dripping in cool -- grew up to become a music and video device in
adolesence and is now a semi-full featured Internet tablet device.
The iPod is a mass market device, an international device. One that every high school kid from Tokyo to Paris to Albuquerque absolutely “needs” to have. Presidents use them, grandmothers use them, soccer moms and NASCAR dads all have used iPods for listening to music, looking at photos and watching videos. Now, for $299 Stateside and slightly more abroad, this device can also take a bigger bite of the workload from the population’s laptops and televisions.
Unlike the U.S.-only iPhone, the new iPod touch is a true mass market
device with international appeal. Every high school kid from Tokyo to
Paris to Albuquerque -- and a lot of their parents -- will decide they
absolutely "need" one. Presidents use them, grandmothers use them,
soccer moms and NASCAR dads use them. All have used iPods for listening
to music, looking at photos and watching videos. Now, for $299 and
$399, depending on whether you're drooling over the 8GB model or the
16GB model, this device can also take a bigger bite of the workload
from the world's laptops and TVs.