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iPod touch is a portable media player and Wi-Fi mobile platform designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The product was launched on September 5, 2007 through an event called The Beat Goes On. The iPod touch adds the graphical user interfaces Cover Flow and Multi-Touch to the iPod line and is available with 8, 16 or 32 GB of flash memory. It includes Apple's Safari web browser and is the first iPod enabling wireless access to the iTunes Store. Beginning in June, the iPod touch will also have access to the App Store.

The iPod touch has the iPhone's multi-touch interface, with a physical home button off the touch screen. The home screen has a list of buttons for the available applications which include Music, Videos, Photos, iTunes, Safari, YouTube, Mail, Maps and Widgets. Software upgrades sold by Apple expand the iPod touch's functionality by adding more features.

As supplied new, the iPod touch needs a connection to a computer for initial configuration. Officially, Apple requires iTunes to be installed on either a Mac OS X or Windows operating system based computer for programming the iPod touch. On either operating system, the iPod touch needs a USB 2.0 port on the computer for data communications. The first time the iPod touch is turned on, the "cable to iTunes" graphic will be displayed continuously until the iPod touch senses iTunes.

To use the iPod touch for buying products at the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store via Wi-Fi an iTunes account is required, and can be created and programmed into the device via iTunes during the iPod touch registration process.

Apple states that the following are required for the iPod touch:

A computer running either:

Mac OS X 10.4.10 or later

Microsoft Windows XP with SP2 or Vista (32 or 64-bit versions)

iTunes 7.6 or later (7.4 and 7.5 support only 32-bit XP/Vista)

Available USB 2.0 port

The iPod touch is equipped with Wi-Fi 802.11b/g, and, like the iPhone, includes the Safari browser and a viewing client for YouTube. The device's Wi-Fi capabilities can also be used to buy music from the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store. Like the iPhone, the iPod touch does not support the 802.1x authentication method, making connectivity to some business, college/university, personal, and hospital networks impossible. The iPod touch 2.0 Software Update will reportedly support 802.1x authentication.

Here are some estimated prices of IPOD’s in the Philippine Stores.

iPod Touch 8GB
Introductory Offer…..P14,999
iPod Touch 16GB
Introductory Offer…..P19,999

iPod Classic

iPod Classic 80GB
Introductory Offer…..P12,999
iPod Classic 160GB
Introductory Offer…..P17,999

iPod nano (the one that can play videos)

iPod nano 4GB
Introductory Offer…..P7,999
iPod nano 8GB
Introductory Offer…..P9,999

Ipod Shuffle 1GB
Promo Price…..P3,999