The exceptional's most popular portable gaming device is even more fun. Now available in black and fair-skinned, iPod touch includes iOS 5 with over 200 new features, like iMessage, Notification Forefront, and Twitter integration. Send free, unlimited text messages over Wi-Fi with iMessage. CV HD video and make FaceTime calls. Visit the App Store to pick out from over 500,000 apps. iPod touch also features iCloud, which stores your music, photos, apps, and moreÑand wirelessly pushes them to all your devices.

On the front of iPod set off is a built-in camera perfect for making FaceTime video calls.

FaceTime. Oh, I see what you're saying.

Video trade on iPod touch means your friends can see what you're up to, when you're up to it. With a tap, you can call someone on an iPhone, iPad 2, iPod suggestion, or Mac over Wi-Fi. And come face-to-face with even more fun.

Tap for a more instant, instant message.

Take "LOL" to the next open and actually see friends laughing. Or bring "XOXO" to life when you squander someone a kiss from miles away. FaceTime on iPod touch makes it credible. FaceTime works right out of the box--just enter your Apple ID and email direct. Or create a new email account just for FaceTime. Using FaceTime is as serene as it gets. Say you want to start a video call with your best friend over Wi-Fi. Solely tap the FaceTime app and find her entry to start the call. An invitation pops up on her screen asking if she wants to weld you. When she accepts, FaceTime begins. It's all perfectly seamless. And it works in both portrayal and landscape. See how much fun you can have.

Two cameras make either side its fun side.

iPod touch has two built-in cameras, one on the front above the display and one on the back. The front camera has been tuned for FaceTime. It has unbiased the right field of view and focal length to focus on your phiz at arm's length. So it always presents you in the best possible light. Which is especially serviceable when you're talking to someone who's more than just a friend.

The back camera. See and share.

So your friend is indisposed with a cold and can't make it to the concert. You can share the encore with a FaceTime call. As the gather takes the stage and starts playing one of her all-time favorite songs, equitable tap a button. And before the lead singer can belt out his first note, iPod spark off switches to the back camera and to the sure-to-be-legendary performance. Another tap switches to the front camera and to you. Unassuming, fast, and fun.

Camera with HD Video Recording. Ready, and action.

The next serious Internet meme could be yours. iPod touch and its HD video camera go with you everywhere, so you can seize every "What the?" moment that comes your way.

Trim a little off the ends. Or the middle.

No poverty to wait until you're back at your computer to edit video. With basic editing built into iPod come, you can get right down to business. Just drag to select start and end points on a filmstrip. Keep only the parts of the video you yen, and turn it into something you and your friends will watch again and again.

iPod touch features a another camera on the back, which lets you shoot amazing 720p HD video.

Unusual guest star: iMovie.

You're on an epic road trip, and you thirst to create a video postcard of everything you've seen and done. Just use the iMovie app--pick it up on the App Preserve for just $4.99. Built for Multi-Touch, iMovie lets you join and edit video clips, give them that extra something with dynamic themes, add music and photos, and apportion your finished movies with the world.

This is so going on YouTube.

Maybe you're in the centre of texting a friend or browsing the web when you look up and suddenly see something that words impartial can't describe. Launch the camera and record on the fly. Then upload your HD movie directly to YouTube. Or choice some video from the Camera Roll and attach it to a new email message, handy to send. Posting to your Facebook page or blog is also just a tap to a different place.

Two cameras. Countless photo ops.

A really cool piece of graffiti art. A cupcake too adroit to eat. Your cat camouflaged by stuffed animals. If you want to take a quick photo to post on Chirrup, either camera on iPod touch can also capture stills. Use grid words, pinch-to-zoom gestures, and single-tap exposure lock to make up the perfect shot. Then tap to tweet at will.

Retina Display. Seeing is still not believing.

Thanks to the Retina show, everything you see and do on iPod touch looks amazing. That's because the Retina display's pixel density is so grand your eye is unable to distinguish individual pixels. Which means images in games, pictures, and photos pop off the screen. Text in books, web pages, and email is brittle at any size. And everything is sharper. No wonder it's called "cutting edge."

When iPod came on the argument years ago, it was all about music--and it still is. Enjoy your favorite tunes, whether it's on headphones or wirelessly over AirPlay.

More wow per inch.

Behind the shelter of iPod touch, there's some serious technology going on. By developing pixels a sheer 78 micrometers wide, Apple engineers were able to her business a get four times the number of pixels into the same size screen found on earlier iPod class as models. This many pixels packed this close together--326 per inch--deliver graphics and text look smooth and continuous at any size. Treat to be glued to the screen.

LED backlighting.

The Retina display includes LED backlighting and an ambient window-pane sensor that automatically adjusts the brightness of the screen for the best viewing and mobile life possible. So you can focus on more important things. Like destroying aliens.

AirPlay. Radio live to your HDTV and speakers.

With AirPlay, you can wirelessly stream what's on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod class as to your HDTV and speakers via Apple TV. That's gonna go over big.

Give your photos and video the big-interview treatment.

You have great photos on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod dash and some friends on your couch. Or you're in the middle of an epic action scene that could use a teeny-weeny more screen. Tap the AirPlay icon on your iOS 5 device from a specific app--Photos, Videos, or Safari, for norm--and everything streams to your HDTV via your Apple TV.* Make sure both your device and Apple TV are useful to the same Wi-Fi network, and the AirPlay icon appears automatically.

DJ wirelessly.

AirPlay isn't equitable for photos, movies, and apps. It's for your music, too. A song, an album, a fondness playlist--if it's on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, you can stream it to your make clear entertainment speakers via Apple TV. Because rocking out is always more fun in surround sound.

Your speakers and AirPlay. To the letter in tune.

Conduct a symphony, chill with an indie band, or put on a escarpment concert--anywhere in the house. Connect any speaker you own to an AirPort Express. Or cascade directly to AirPlay-enabled speakers from manufacturers like Denon, Marantz, B&W, JBL, and iHome. Your iOS slogan automatically detects your speakers: Just tap the ones you want to use. Since it all happens wirelessly, you have the liberation to cue the tunes from wherever you happen to be sitting, standing, or dancing.

Music. The DNA of iPod strike.

Your workouts, your cram sessions, your commute, your late-night skip party of one, your ever-present need to drown out the noise around you. It's your music that keeps you succeeding. And you know what respects that? iPod touch.

Turn iPod get on its side and glide through your music by album art with the flick of your finger.

A work of recording art.

What a song does for your ears, Cover Flow on iPod eat does for your eyes and fingers. Turn iPod touch on its side and coast through your music by album art with the flick of your finger. Tap an album cover to flip out it over and display a track list. Tap again to start the music.

From one great at a bargain price a fuss comes an even greater playlist.

Songs in your library get a newfound throbbing thanks to Genius. When you're listening to a track you love and want to learn others that go great with it, let Genius take over. It finds complementary songs you own and makes a Maestro playlist for you. Listen to the playlist right away, save it for later, or even renew it and give it another go. Count on Genius to create a playlist you wouldn't have thought of yourself.

A talent of a mix.

Genius acts as your personal DJ. All you do is sync iPod touch to iTunes, and Expert automatically searches your library to find songs that sound great together. Then it creates multiple mixes you'll ardour because it's entirely your music. Genius Mixes are like stations tuned minutely to your taste. They're a great way to rediscover songs you haven't heard in forever--and some you forgot you had.

Undermined it like you mean it.

The next time you're listening to your tunes, turn on Quaking to Shuffle, then give iPod touch a shake to shuffle to a different tale in your music library. It's just another way iPod touch keeps your music sensibility fresh.

It's hard to be bored when you have instant access to over 500,000 apps, including the latest in gaming titles.

If it's comic, it's on iTunes.

Add songs and music videos to your iPod touch from iTunes on your computer. Or buy and download new music on your iPod put one's hand on over Wi-Fi with the iTunes app. When you do, iCloud automatically downloads it to all your devices over Wi-Fi or 3G. So everything new appears everywhere--on your iPad, iPhone, Mac, or PC. You can also scan your purchase history and choose specific songs or albums to download again at no supplementary cost. Sign up for iTunes Match and you can access all your other music from iCloud--including music you've imported from CDs or purchased somewhere other than iTunes. For by a hair's breadth $24.99 a year.

Games + Apps. What iPod touch was made for.

It's hard-boiled to be bored when you have instant access to over 500,000 apps. Available in almost every ranking, they're just a tap away at the App Store. And when it comes to games and entertainment titles--over 100,000 and counting--no other stand comes close to iPod touch. Which probably explains why it's the in the seventh heaven's most popular portable gaming device.

iOS. The world's most advanced motorized operating system.

Running the show on every iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad is iOS. It lets you flick through, read, and see everything just by touching the screen. It also includes all the fun, powerful, and inventive built-in apps you use every day, many times a day. And the latest version, iOS 5, is jammed with over 200 exciting new features that will make you say, "Best. iPod. Ever." Here are a few of our penchant new features in iOS 5:

iOS 5 is packed with over 200 exciting new features--such as iMessage, pictured above--that will skedaddle you say, "Best. iPod. Ever."

• iMessage
  Now you can be all "I was allÉ" and "She was allÉ" all you want. Send numberless text messages to any iOS 5 device free over Wi-Fi with iMessage.


• Notification Forefront
  You're about to beat the final boss. Now's not the time for an alert to get in the way. And it won't, thanks to Notification Fore.


• Game Center
  Get ready to rumble. Game Center lets you soft-soap against friends and people you don't know. And it recommends new games and new opponents.


• Snicker Integration
  Twitter users rejoice. iOS 5 adds Twitter capabilities to Safari, Photos, Camera, YouTube, and Maps, so you can tweet soon from them.


• Reminders
  Forget much? Reminders can fix that for you. Create lists of things to do or retain, set a deadline, and Reminders sends you an alert.


• Safari
  Web articles minus the ads. What delight. Tap the Reader button in Safari and ads disappear. Add article links to Reading Index and read them later.


• Photos
  Photo Stream in iCloud stores all your latest photos and pushes them wirelessly to your other devices. So every pic is everywhere.


• PC Rid
  You can activate and set up your iPod touch wirelessly, right out of the box. Without the need for a Mac or PC.


• Newsstand
  A publication rack that's just for you. That's the idea behind Newsstand. Find all your publications here and even subscribe to new ones.

iCloud. Your capacity. On all your devices.

Thanks to iCloud, your iPod touch has an even tighter shackles with your Mac or PC (and your iPhone or iPad). iCloud stores your music, apps, games, latest photos, and more and makes them ready on your other devices. And it keeps your email, contacts, and calendars up to date across them, too. It's all unconscious. There's no syncing required, no management required, no anything required. iCloud does the travail for you.

iTunes in the Cloud. Your music and TV shows. Wherever you want them.

You never know when you'll rapidly be in the mood to listen to a favorite song or rewatch that hilarious sitcom incident. With iCloud, you can have iTunes automatically download new music purchases to all your devices the prominence you tap Buy. You can also access past music and TV show purchases from any of your devices--wirelessly and without syncing.

Photo Torrent. Snap. And it's everywhere.

With Photo Stream, you can take a photo on one iOS device and it automatically appears on all your other devices, including your Mac or PC. Purport new pictures to your computer from a digital camera, and iCloud sends copies over Wi-Fi to your iPhone, iPad, and iPod make use of. You can even view recent photos on your big-screen TV via Apple TV. There's no syncing, no email attachments, no interfile transfers. Your pictures are just there--on whichever device you happen to have at one's fingertips.

Buy a new book from the iBookstore, and iCloud makes sure it appears everywhere--your iPhone, iPad, and iPod ignite.

Documents in the Cloud. Start here. Finish there.

You can create amazing papers and presentations on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. And now with iCloud, you can keep your labour up to date across all your iOS devices. You don't have to save your work or transfer any files. Your travel document--with all your latest edits--automatically appear everywhere. iCloud is already built into Apple iOS apps like Keynote, Pages, and Numbers. It can also line with other iCloud-enabled apps. So you can do things like create a spreadsheet on your iPad and elect edits to it on your iPhone. Or start sketching on your iPod touch and add the finishing touches on your iPad at adept in.

Apps. All your apps. Always at hand.

If you have an iPhone, iPad, or iPod be a match for, you have apps. And you probably download new ones all the time. iCloud lets you unconsciously download new app purchases to all your devices at once. So the app you need is always right where you need it. If an app you bought some time ago isn't on one of your devices, not to worry. You can download it again from your purchase history--at no additional imputation.

iBooks. All your devices are on the same page.

Buy a new book from the iBookstore, and iCloud makes accurate it appears everywhere--your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. So if you have to put it down, you can pick it back up on another cognizance, in exactly the same place. In addition to the best seller you're glued to at the gravity, the iBooks app keeps a list of titles you've read before. And just like with apps, you can download them again to any of your devices.

Slate, Mail, and Contacts. Up-to-date everything.

iCloud stores all the stuff you can't function without--your contacts, calendars, and email--and keeps it up to date across all your devices. Say you eliminate an email, add a calendar event, or change some settings. iCloud makes all your changes everywhere. Same with your notes, reminders, and Safari bookmarks.

Stalemate. iCloud saves the day.

iCloud backs up your iOS device daily over Wi-Fi when it's of interest to a power source. From your Camera Roll and messages to your device settings and ringtones, everything is backed up right away and efficiently. And since iCloud is built into iPhone, iPad, and iPod disturb, you can restore your personal data on a new iOS device or one you already have without using a single Mailgram. iCloud does it all for you over Wi-Fi.

Find My Friends. Friend-spotting.

For finding your way to the dinner party, keeping track of family at a crowded amusement park, or getting picked up at the passenger terminal, Find My Friends is your app. You can give friends and family permission to see your whereabouts. And vice versa. When you don't necessity to be found, a single switch takes you off the grid. Simple as that.

Find My iPhone, iPad, iPod intimation, and Mac. Lost. And found.

If checking all the usual spots hasn't turned up your missing iOS machinery, Find My iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Mac can help.4 Just put in at icloud.com or use the Find My iPhone app on another device to locate yours on a map, display a message on its cull, remotely set a passcode lock, or initiate a remote wipe to cancel your data.

AirPrint. Wireless printing, right from your iPod get to.

Late for a concert? Quickly print your tickets from your iPod set off. Stumble upon a list of cheat codes for the RPG you've been struggling with? Print it and percentage it with your friends. A few taps is all it takes to go from onscreen to on paper.

Hard copies made peaceful.

AirPrint on iPod touch makes it simple to print your email, photos, web pages, and papers. There's no software to download, no drivers to install, and no cables to connect. With decent a few taps on your iPod touch, you can go from viewing something onscreen to holding a printed duplication. And because all the printing takes place in the background, there's no waiting around. Instead, you can start printing and then go back to flicking through photos, browsing the web, or doing whatever you were doing before.

Exact wireless printing.

"No cables required" means exactly that. AirPrint printing is 100 percent wireless. iPod employ automatically locates and connects to AirPrint-enabled printers on your wireless network. Whether you're on the other side of the board or on another floor from your printer--or you're walking from one room to the next--you can still print what you need, when you demand it. In fact, it's all so easy and fast that by the time you finish reading this punishment, you could have printed it from your iPod touch.

What you see is what you print.

If you can open it on your iPod brush, chances are you can print it with AirPrint. AirPrint works with Safari, Despatch, Photos, PDFs in iBooks, and third-party apps with built-in printing. Pull a proof pix that hilarious photo of your friend dressed up as an '80s rock star. Unceasing late for a movie? AirPrint lets you quickly print your tickets as you're heading out the front entrance, so you won't have to miss the previews.

Game Center on iPod touch lets you add more players to your gaming network.

Works with AirPrint-enabled printers.

Many AirPrint-enabled printers are handy. Just visit the Apple Online Store and find one that's right for you.

Built-in apps. Fun from the get-go.

iPod class as gives you serious game. But there are so many other things you can do with it that are just as entertaining. Make a FaceTime call to your first-class friend. Shoot HD video of your favorite band. Take and post plenitude of planking photos. Check out your go-to celebrity gossip blogs. All this and you can check into email, watch a movie, listen to music, and more. Impressed? That's objective how iPod touch rolls.

Messages with iMessage

Your two-thumb typing skills are about to be put to some serious use. Say h-e-l-l-o to iMessage, the new passage messaging service for all iOS 5 users. It's free over Wi-Fi, so you can say as much as you want, and then say more. iMessage also lets you send a envisage, share a video, or text a location. This is definitely going to have population talking.

FaceTime

FaceTime on iPod touch lets you persevere out, catch up, and goof off with friends when you can't be there in person. With just a tap, your iPod ignite can make a FaceTime call to someone else's iPod touch, iPad 2, iPhone, or Mac over Wi-Fi.1 Watch a prank in action. Or watch your friend on the other side of the country crack up at your stories from last twilight. All you need to get started is an Apple ID and an email account. You can choose an email plan you already have or, if you prefer, set up a new one. You'll never see fun the same way again.

Game Center

Game Center on iPod tap lets you add more players to your gaming network. Invite friends to yoke. Then totally dominate them. See how your score ranks against your friends and other players of each round. Compare achievements. Put together a select group of friends to play with or have Contest Center suggest some new friends based on the games you play. You can even select to go up against people you don't know in a multiplayer game. So get in the game. And get your friends in it, too.

Camera with HD Video Recording

"You should have seen it!" is a element of the past. Because with iPod touch, you'll always have a great HD video camera with you. So when your dog does that sentiment where he sounds like he's talking, you're ready to capture it in all its glory. In elated-definition 720p video. You can record video in low-light settings, thanks to the modern backside illumination sensor. You can even edit and create your own mini blockbuster bang on on iPod touch using the iMovie app--with Apple-designed themes, titles, and transitions. It's present on the App Store for $4.99.

App Store

Tap App Store and you'll find over 500,000 apps--including over 100,000 heroic and entertainment titles. With more added every day. Thanks to iCloud, new apps you buy on your iPod arouse automatically download to your iPad or iPhone. There are apps for anything and everything--from giving videos you let fly a vintage feel to letting you take on the role of a cunning secret factor. You can download them fast. Many of them are free. And all of them make your iPod touch that much more can't-red-hot-without-able.

Music + iTunes

With iPod touch, you don't just participate in your music. You hear it, and see it, in entirely different ways. Let Genius form a mix or a playlist for you automatically with music you already own and love. Flick through albums in Bedding Flow. Or give iPod touch a shake to shuffle your songs. Enthusiasm some new music? iTunes is only a tap away. Browse millions of songs you can buy and download veracious on the spot. And thanks to iCloud, your purchases automatically download over Wi-Fi to your iPhone, iPad, Mac, or PC, too.

Videos

Your fondness movies and TV shows are now playing on a subway train or plane intimate you. Because you can buy or rent movies and purchase your favorite TV shows right on iPod pertain to. Shop the iTunes Store and choose from thousands of must-see titles.

Correspondence

Whether you have one email address or five, iPod touch lets you manage it all. Notion and open attachments. Format text. Drag to rearrange names in give a speech to fields. Add or delete mailbox folders. Search the body of messages. And with iCloud, you get a gratuitous email account that stays up to date on your iOS 5 devices and Mac or PC.

Tap App Store and you'll find over 500,000 apps--including over 100,000 game and diversion titles.

Safari

Safari on iPod touch now includes Reader, a serviceable feature that removes annoying ads so you can read articles without distractions. In need of to read a story but don't have time? Add it to Reading List and read it later. iCloud keeps your Reading Roll updated across all your devices, in case you want to check out the story on your Mac or iPad as contrasted with.

Photos

So many hilarious, unforgettable, I-can't-believe-you-just-did-that moments are in the photo library on your iPod stack up to. And new features in iOS 5 give you more control over the photos you take. Crop, rotate, enhance, and take off red-eye right on iPod touch. Even organize your photos in albums. With Photo Emanate in iCloud, all the photos you shoot on iPod touch automatically occur on your other devices.

Maps

Maps on iPod touch shows you where you are and how to get to where you after to be. Or maybe you're craving something sweet. Type what you're looking for--"ice cream," for eg--and see what's nearby.

Reminders

A new feature called Reminders makes iPod have a bearing on seem like a sticky note come to life. Create a liber veritatis for whatever you don't want to forget--homework assignments to finish, chores to do, narration tickets to buy. Set a deadline and Reminders will send you a notification to keep you on track.

YouTube

From tweens with amazing vocal skills to bizarre-but-real TV commercials, YouTube is a video wonderland. And with the YouTube app on iPod suggestion, you can keep yourself entertained for hours on end.

Nike + iPod

Get the most out of your workouts with the Nike + iPod Sensor (sold alone) and iPod touch. The sensor slips into your Nike+ shoe and wirelessly transmits statistics about your workout to your iPod touch. The Nike+ app even works with cardio paraphernalia in many fitness centers.

Voice Memos

If you have something to say, say it. Voice Memos on iPod use will record it. Whether it's a lecture on covalent bonds or your friend's goofy made-up ado, you can keep it for posterity. Trim your memos on iPod touch, then sync them to iTunes to use in your podcast or serving.

Find My iPod touch

You know your iPod touch is here somewhere because you had it like 10 minutes ago. Don't anomalous out. Find My iPod touch was made for situations like this. When you first get your iPod touch, set up Find My iPod touch. Then if you misplace it, you can find its simulate location on a map. Display a message or play a sound to help you find it. You can even remotely wipe it reveal of your personal information, if you need to.

More Built-in Apps

Keep all your news and armoury apps in Newsstand. Write about anything and everything in Notes. Do quick math with Computer. Check the weather. And watch your investments with Stocks.

What's in the Box

iPod ignite (8GB, Black), Earphones, Dock Connector to USB Cable, Quick Start Mentor