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For the same reason, it also lacks a proximity detector, so the screen won't turn off if you slap it upside your head.
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The new touch also lacks the iPhone's earpiece speaker and integrated mic, as it isn't intended to be used next your your face. This may be because audio has to rattle past the metal back and (apparently) through the dock connector rather than being directed through a ported speaker opening as on the iPhone. Its speaker sounds tinnier and less pleasant than the one in the iPhone 3G, although it is about as loud. The sound output appears to be a bit of a mystery: it seems to radiate out the metal back, and certainly can't come through the solid glass front. While the iPhone 3G can be nearly silenced by placing a finger over its speakerphone hole, the volume on the new iPod touch barely even gets any softer if you cover the dock connector and headphone jacks with your hand. Unlike the iPhone's speakerphone, the new touch lack any obvious hole for the external speaker (below), so sound appears to be coming out through its metal back. It also enables the touch to play the same alarm and alert sounds as the iPhone, rather than just the simple beeps of the original touch. While it doesn't deliver great sound, the new speaker is serviceable for listening to music and decent for listening to podcasts in a reasonably quiet environment. The loudest change on the touch is its new integrated speaker. In other areas however, the touch catches up to the iPhone and even ups the ante with a few new tricks up its sleeve.įrom the front, the iPhone 3G and new iPod touch appear virtually identical, as this comparison between the touch and the thicker and slightly longer white iPhone 3G indicates (below). There's still a few differences the new touch lacks a camera, GPS, and of course has no mobile data network features.
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The new second generation 2008 version of the touch not only leaves the software gaps filled, but also rounds out the missing hardware features. The second generation touch feature rundown
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Those differentiations were later removed and the touch is now identical to the iPhone.
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Apple addressed these missing software features in a $20 package of apps that it offered months afterward, and later bundled the apps on all new iPod touch units.Īpple also differentiated the iPod touch from the iPhone by changing the home screen dock to appear more like the Mac OS X Leopard dock, complete with reflections (below: first generation iPhone and iPod touch). It also lacked Google Maps, Stocks and Weather, and Notes. The first generation iPod touch also lacked the iPhone's Mail app, and provided a read-only Calendar. It also lacked the iPhone's fourth conductor on its headphone jack, making it unable to work with the iPhone's mic-integrated headphones for both audio recording and the play, pause, and 'click to skip' remote control features. Instead, it just provided a simple piezo speaker capable of only making simple beeps. The original iPod touch, like all previous iPods but unlike the iPhone, lacked an audio output speaker and subsequently also had no volume rocker buttons or a silent switch.
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Apple seemed to be too wary of creating any product confusion between its new iPhone and the existing iPod line, and made a series of compromises on the touch intended to create artificial differentiation. When the iPod touch debuted last year, we warned that it wasn't really the "iPhone without the phone" that many assumed it would be. Missing features on the first generation touch
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It gets new audio input and recording features, volume controls, a speaker, and a full assortment of bundled apps, including Nike+ support. The 2008 iPod touch inches closer to the iPhone line while retaining its iPod branding.