Is It Worth It Getting The New iPod Touch?

Apple will also be announcing the release of a newtouch as a gaming device this time around, too -
iPod Nano 4 G on Tuesday. Apple says it maythanks to the arrival of the Wi-Fi accessible App
offer the feature in the future. Apple'sstore. I would pay good money for a few
much-anticipated launch of the iPod touch thisminutes in a locked room with whoever thought
week heralds a new era for Apple's wildly popularcalling it's the funnest iPod ever was a good idea
line of music and video players. The iPod, whichbut I at least agree with the sentiment, if not the
emerged first as nothing more than a portablegrammar. Apple quickly recognized that some
music player -- albeit one dripping in cool -- grewcustomers didn't necessarily want cellular service
up to become a music and video device inon their iPhone and created the iPod touch-
adolesence and is now a semi-full featuredessentially an iPhone minus the phone. The iPod
Internet tablet device.touch was available in 8GB and 16GB models
Apple addressed these missing software featuresinitially , and later a 32GB model. Apple hasn't done
in a $20 package of apps that it offered monthsanything strikingly wrong with the second
afterward, and later bundled the apps on all newgeneration Touch. At the same time, they haven't
iPod touch units. Apple also differentiated the iPoddone anything all that striking.
touch from the iPhone by changing the homeApple has integrated an accelerometer that
screen dock to appear more like the Mac OS Xenables the device to flip into landscape mode
Leopard dock, complete with reflections (below:when displaying pictures and video. What's more,
first generation iPhone and iPod touch). Apple isApple has used the accelerometer in another way
calling the new iPod Touch "the funnest iPod ever.a shaking the new nano shuffles to the next
I purchased the 32 GB version last week, andtrack. Apple gaming hasn't really caught on that
after playing with it for awhile, I'd have to agreemuch, but it looks like this time Jobs and company
with them. I use it to play music in my car, toare really putting a lot behind marketing the iPod
play games at work, and to surf the web whenTouch as a gaming device. The iPod Touch
I'm away from home. Apple's inclusion of thecertainly looks like it packs some considerable
Nike+ receiver and software on the touch will begraphical power under its hood. Apple was having
a big . It certainly does a good job of basics --a special where you got the ipod touch free with
what you've come to expect on an iPod (withthe purchase of a macbook. I was fortunate
maybe a slight bit more flair), but frankly, weenough to get in on that deal on the last day of
were hoping for more.the offer.
Apple is making a pretty big deal of the iPod