Apple iPod touch 8 GB, Old (1st Generation)

Product Description:

The iPod touch features Apple's revolutionary multi-touch user interface that enables you to find and enjoy all of your music, videos, and more on its gorgeous widescreen display with just the touch of a finger. First introduced on iPhone, the multi-touch interface uses pioneering new software to present the perfect user interface for each application.



Glide through albums with the iPod touch's amazing Cover Flow technology. View iPod touch dimensions.


Browse the Web with the included Safari browser. Or fire up a YouTube video and enjoy the show.


The iPod touch responds to your movements; turn it sideways and your video is presented in widescreen mode.


Incredibly thin at just 8 millimeters.
The iPod touch also includes Wi-Fi wireless networking, the first on any iPod, and three amazing applications that use it: Safari, the most advanced browser on any mobile device, lets you wirelessly view web pages just as they look on your computer, and features Google Search or Yahoo! oneSearch; Apple's YouTube application lets users wirelessly watch over 10 million free videos from the Internet's most popular video website; and the new iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store lets you wirelessly browse, preview and buy songs and albums from the most popular online music store in the world. And to top it all off, the iPod touch is an unbelievable eight millimeters thin.

Music
If a picture says a thousand words, think of what all the album art in your collection might say. With Cover Flow on iPod touch, you can flick through your music to find the album you want to hear. And when you do, a quick tap of the cover flips it over to display a track list. Another tap starts the music.

Video
The 3.5-inch display gives you video like nothing you've seen before on a portable device. Watch your favorite movie. Catch up on television shows, anywhere. Enjoy video podcasts. Play music videos. All using multi-touch technology that lets you bring up onscreen controls and go widescreen (or back to full screen) with a tap.

Photos
iPod touch holds up to 20,000 photos you sync via iTunes. Flick to scroll through thumbnails. Tap to view full screen. Rotate for landscape format. Or perform some sleight of hand by opening two fingers to zoom in. You can even play slideshows, complete with music and transitions. Set any photo as your wallpaper to personalize your iPod touch...with a touch.

Safari
With Apple's Safari browser built in, iPod touch is the only iPod that gives you wireless access to the web, everywhere you go. See websites the way they were designed to be seen. Sync your bookmarks or add a few as you go. Search the web using the touchscreen keyboard. Zoom in and out by tapping the multi-touch display.

YouTube
Got a bit of a YouTube addiction? iPod touch feeds it from anywhere with a special YouTube player built right in. Watch featured videos, check out the most viewed, search for something specific, then bookmark your favorites for future reference. It's all the fun of YouTube--pocket-size.

iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store
With iPod touch, you can discover new music anywhere. Built-in wireless capability gives you access to the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, where you can buy songs with a tap. Browse New Releases, What's Hot, and Just Added lists. Or find exactly what you're looking for with a quick search. Tap a song to preview it or tap Buy to purchase it. From anywhere.

Starbucks Music
You walk into a Starbucks. Order your latté. While you wait, you hear a song wafting from the loudspeakers. You love it. So you get out your iPod touch and buy it over Wi-Fi. Just like that. The iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store on iPod touch tells you what's playing in select Starbucks and lets you buy it along with other featured Starbucks content. So you can sip, shop, and listen.

Read Kindle Books on the iPod touch

Read Kindle books on your iPod touch.

Shop for Books on the Kindle Store on Your iPod touch


Multi-touch
iPod touch features the same revolutionary interface as iPhone. Built to take full advantage of the large 3.5-inch display, the multi-touch interface lets you control everything using only your fingers. So you can glide through albums with Cover Flow, flick through photos and enlarge them with a pinch, or zoom in and out on a section of a web page. And iPod touch features a touchscreen QWERTY keyboard perfect for browsing the web in Safari, searching for videos on YouTube, finding music on the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, entering calendar events, or adding new contacts.

Ambient Light Sensor
The iPod touch display has an ambient light sensor that automatically adjusts brightness to suit the ambient light in your surroundings. The result? A better experience for you and battery-saving efficiency for iPod touch.

Accelerometer
An accelerometer detects when you rotate iPod touch from portrait to landscape, then automatically changes the contents of the display, so you immediately see the entire width of a web page, your music in Cover Flow, or a photo in its proper aspect ratio.

Product Details
  • Feature:
  • This player is the iPod touch, not the Apple iPhone
  • Upgrade your player with the iPhone 2.0 Software Update for iPod touch via iTunes for an additional fee
  • 8 GB of storage provides approximately 1,750 songs; includes earphones, USB cable, dock adapter/connector, polishing cloth, and stand
  • Battery life provides up to 22 hours of music and up to 5 hours of video
  • Music downloads from iTunes, Wi-Fi web browsing, and 3.5-inch widescreen multi-touch display
  • BatteriesIncluded: 0
  • Binding: Electronics
  • Brand: Apple
  • Color: Black
  • EAN: 0123456789012
  • HardwarePlatform: PC
  • IsAutographed: 0
  • IsMemorabilia: 0
  • Label: Apple Computer
  • Manufacturer: Apple Computer
  • MediaType: None
  • Model: MA623LL/A
  • MPN: MA623LL/A
  • PackageQuantity: 1
  • ProductGroup: CE
  • ProductTypeName: MP3_PLAYER
  • Publisher: Apple Computer
  • ReleaseDate: 2007-09-30
  • Size: 8 GB
  • Studio: Apple Computer
  • UPC: 885909121472
  • Warranty: 1 year warranty

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Customer Reviews

Great unit2009-06-10
The kids had this for probably years now - just got around to the review. I just wish I would see them use it more.

Way too many electronic toys these days.
Exciting to explore - unrefined overall2009-05-28
A friend gave me one for my birthday last year (!) and as an avid/budding interaction designer, I enjoyed exploring the brave new iWorld.

But other than for playing around, I would trade it for a similarly-priced Apple iPod classic 120 GB Black (6th Generation) without hesitation.

I currently use a Blackberry Pearl 8100 Unlocked Phone -- International Version with No Warranty (Black with Silver) as my regular phone and other than its senility in old age, it's a great device. GMail, for example, works much better on the Pearl than the iPod Touch - I can navigate between messages and pages faster on the Pearl, the Blackberry GMail client pre-loads the messages so I'm not constantly waiting for them to download, and typing with real buttons is faster (even with the Pearl's funky multi-keyed button layout) than the Touch's virtual buttons.

GMail is just one application - more broadly, I'm frequently forced to click the home-button (which quits whatever application I'm running), go to Settings and reconnect to a wireless network, and then re-start whatever application I was trying to use in the first place. If there's a network available, why can't the iPod Touch automatically connect to it when the application makes a request? Otherwise, the (virtual) volume button on the Music application is squirrely and requires a fair amount of practice and patience - I'm baffled as to why the iPhone has a real/physical volume button and the iPod Touch does not. Another oddity with the volume slider is its side-to-side orientation, every other virtual and physical volume control in the world is oriented up-and-down.. "please turn the volume left a little"?

For all the usability bugs in this product, I am genuinely impressed by the speed, reliability and usability of the Safari web browser on such a tiny screen. My "flow state" moments with the iPod Touch have been using the web browser - it's amazing how well Apple worked this out - I wouldn't believe it without experiencing it myself.

I will get an iPhone when the next version comes out (because I'm building iPhone apps), but I'm nervous about switching based on my experience with the iPod Touch.
Did not work but great customer service2009-05-22
The ipod did not work when it arrived and shipping was veryyyyy slow, but it was an easy return. I would reccommend this seller.
Apple Success Again2009-04-28
I have owned the first generation iPod Touch since they first came out. I ordered mine from Amazon and was very pleased with the price. I had some issues early on but the issues were related to syncing the iPod with iTunes. I no longer have to power up my computer to read email, get directions, or find out what's going on in my area. I chose not to purchase the iPhone because AT&T does not work well in our area.

The App store has made my iPod Touch so enjoyable that I am never bored with it. If you don't own an iPod Touch, you should buy one. I would buy the second generation over the first generation because the 2nd generation has an external speaker and external volume control which the 1st generation doesn't have.
iTouch - More than Just Cool2009-04-05
Mine is a 1st generation 8Gig iTouch. Sure, I'd like a 2nd generation and more Gigs, but this unit works fine, sounds fine, and is holding up fine.

My battery does not hold a charge as long as I'd like, and it never did. I'm not sure if I didn't condition the battery right when it was new, or if I over charged it too much early on, but that's about the only issue I have with it. I didn't pay the costly service fee to Apple for the protection, and I see that a replacement battery costs a lot to have done at Apple. So, I've done my research, and when it's time, I will get a battery from the internet and I will install it myself.

There's enough reviews that discuss all it's options so I won't go on and on about those. I will day that I love the way that iTunes keeps my iTouch and all of my applications that are on it updated. I have games, online Wifi tools, utilities, movies, TV shows, pictures, and of course music on this thing. It works great.

I use a DLO Leather Folio Case to keep this protected (click on that link to see my review of the case). I also have a clear screen protector on it - and that has worked fine too.
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