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what's up everyone John Ramsey from TechnoBuffalo here with a full review of the mid-2010 ipod touch a refresh let's see if it's worth the money so being a touch only device the first thing you're going to see and what you're gonna use most with the iPod Touch is the display which is now been completely updated to include the iPhone 4s Retina display which is going to give you a whopping resolution of 960 by 640 with 326 pixels per inch and that's just fancy talk for saying the screen is gorgeous I've talked about the Retina display on countless occasions and iPhone for videos but devices to say it looks just as good on the iPod touch looking at older generation iPod touches and all the generation iPhones for that matter you really can't see it different to the screen it's a highest resolution screen right now on the market and really really really does show and just pops images and texts really look very crystal clear text you can zoom all the way and you get no pixelation on images I mean they're high-res really do look quite nice on the screen so one of the cool things always touches then how thin they are and this generation iPod Touch got even thinner which is super crazy coming in now at 0.28 inches thick and this is I mean razor razor thin to give you a comparison the iPhone 4 is certainly no fat boy but it looks downright chubby next to its touch cousin really really really very very impressive however this thin design does bring some annoyances that I found while using the eye pop that's something to keep in mind if you flip it over we'll talk about some of the stuff on the back a little bit it is tapered so it's rounded on the sides and rounded on the top so the lock and power button we're using the device the expected surge is push here to be able to hit it you actually have to almost lift up the device and hit the button down below see it's right there so you hit the top you're not going to make them contact so that's become a little bit of annoying if you're used to using an iPhone for example you have to sort of reconfigure how your fingers are something that I just found to be a bit of a pain and the same thing is going to be true with the volume buttons on the so this is also packing the 1/4 system-on-a-chip clock being it just about 1 gigahertz and this thing is very very very fast certainly it's capable of handling you know all the multitasking that's iOS 4 is going to bring but it also now is going to be very capable of handling the 3d games then making their way into the App Store so a lot of the racing games and all the sites are now going to build up the form as they would on an iPhone 4 you're gonna be able to really get that is immersive graphics on a mobile device so certainly kudos to Apple for doing that now I think one of the big change that most people are talking about are the addition of two cameras we've got one guy on the front you can see them right there and we've got one guy on the back and they both serve similar yet different purposes the one on the front is primarily good use for FaceTime video calls which has finally made their way to the iPod touch we've been hearing rumors of a front-facing camera on an iPod Touch for it seems like eons now the fact this mythical unicorn is finally here it's probably gonna make some people quite happy you may have seen my demonstration video I did on FaceTime it works it very well you just register an email address and essentially call that email address and it works from iphone forward ipod touch vice versa and hopefully someday we'll have a desktop client that'll worked with this as well we'll take VGA quality photos and so you know not too bad not great you're not gonna want to blow these things up put them on a wall but you know we'll take some pictures on the front on the back we have a camera capable of taking HD video and that is HD at 720p recorded to 30 frames per second out of audio and we'll take still photos as well at a 960 by 720 with the back camera this case you were wondering there's no LED flash here anything just the little camera but kind of lonely on the back we do have an all new aluminum design you don't have that little black plastic panel for the Wi-Fi suppose the aluminum is going for the single to come in and out and it's not an iPhone enough you have signal drop issues because it doesn't have to sell you their radio just probably why this sucker is so thin speaking of cellular radio this is now very much more iPhone 4 like - the phone everything the iPhone 4 to do this guy can do as well except for make phone calls however if you couple this with a Skype or voice over IP application and using the built-in microphone that this suckers got you pretty much have a phone with you all the time if you have sort of a MiFi or any device others going to kick out a Wi-Fi signal I've never been the biggest fan of the iPod Touch line primarily I've been using an iPhone so I very much of a need for an iPod Touch however this is a first generation iPod Touch today I think really feels a very big niche first for FaceTime you're not gonna have people acting video chat really more widespread for example this unit here I'm going to let my sister and brother-in-law use my dad has an iPhone 4 and my sister and brother-in-law do not and they live a little far apart so now my dad will be able to see his grandchildren all the times I having to tell him how to use Skype which devera tried to teach your parents that a new computer you know can be quite difficult so that's just some personal experience however if you are an iPod Touch spam you're given getting much more of what you love with the iPod Touch you're getting the great multi-touch browser based on the WebKit open standard so it's gonna work very very very well it's probably one of the best browsers around if compare this to other Android devices BlackBerry devices and Palm webOS devices still the iPhone has the best browser around still I find it a bit weird the 3.5 milimeter headset jack is on the bottom but I guess we're using an iPod touch you're probably used to that so we've been looking to get an iPhone and you want an iPhone we don't want to switch pairs to AT&T the iPod Touch is probably going to be a perfect way for you to go however if you decide to do that it is not going to come cheap the eight gigabyte model is gonna cost you 229 the 32 gig is gonna bump you up to just about $300 if you want to go for the granddaddy of iPod touches you want 64 gigs for $399 so not cheap not cheap at all but you're not stuck with a contract so this isn't getting very view of apples product lines of what you think of Apple this is review of just a product itself this product itself is still the best and the preeminent media player on the market and it's very hard to not like it it just works very well be App Store adds kind of functionality addition of FaceTime the cameras and now that you've crossed in the retina display really just our nice value adds so it already was a very solid product so on a one to five scale the iPod Touch in the realm of portable media players really comparing the likes of the zoom and some of the sandesh players and some others it's very hard to not give this a perfect five stars this is a very extensive as tend to be an apple products but you know you're getting a decent amount their price aside this really has everything you could want from a media player so on a one to five scale they just mentioned this is going to get a five do you agree or disagree am i drinking Apple kool-aid or am i right on target love to hear what you guys have to say I am John writer from TechnoBuffalo be sure to check out the website for all your tech news for exclusive content check me out of Twitter twitter.com slash John for Lakers and all those links stuff will be right down below so be sure to check those out I will see you in the next video bye-bye you