Here I present a review of the new iPod Touch 2nd generation from Apple Inc. After waiting some time, finally arrived 2nd Generation iPod Touch in my hands. After using it more or less two weeks, I will share my experience with this iPod Touch 2nd Generation. Whatever advantages it offers and what deficiencies exist in this new product.
Standard features of the iPod Touch is 2nd Generation: Music, Movies + TV Show, Games, Wi-Fi iTunes Music Store, Home Screen, Safari, Mail, Maps, You Tube, Photos, Calendar, Contacts, Stocks, Weather, Notes, Calculator , and another feature that does not exist on the iPod Touch 1st generation is support for Nike + iPod.
Here’s the full review:
Design
Design of 2nd Generation iPod Touch is really very beautiful. Very thin and comfortable in the grip of my big hands. With a glossy black front panel, with anti-scratch screen brilliant, and the back that is really ‘polish’, shiny and can be made to look in the mirror. Home button is pressed soft enough and easily accessible, external buttons for volume which previously did not have the first generation, the Hold button on the left side, plug the data cable at the bottom, and next to the earphone jack plug the data cable.
But unfortunately, as beautiful as it was extremely luxurious appearance can be easily damaged due to a patch of visible fingerprints. iPod Touch really dirty easily. You should frequently clean it with a microfiber-cloth supplied in plastic box. My advice, use a silicon case (usually called ‘condom’) or a screen protector or the like to protect it from your fingerprints. In addition, the back of a shiny iPod Touch is very easy to be scratched! Even with nails, can provide a thin scratch marks. I’ve just got scrapes, until now disposable silicon case. Another weakness is the frequent rear panel when the changer. So, be careful.
Screen
IPod Touch screen do not match with other mobile devices that soft-soft when pressed, Ipod Touch screen is hard as glass. Even has an anti-scratch, so you want to lock the friction-wear friction motors or cutter, will not leave marks, unless you are too far. With the support of the Multi-Touch technology, operation is really fun and easy, unlike other mobile devices that must use the stylus, the iPod Touch, you are only allowed to use your finger to touch. So really only in touch. With Multi-Touchnya technology, you can enlarge or reduce images / photos just by touching two fingers of your hand, then widen the distance of your finger.
To play games or watching video, the iPod Touch screen gives excellent results. You can also adjust brightness on the screen, from the most somber to the most brightly lit. Shortcomings inherent only fingerprints on the screen.
Voice
The sound quality is very good served iPod Touch, although not the best. With standard earphones that white milk, it has been enough to get stereo sound quality. For quality iPod Touch internal speakers spelled out mediocre. Not too bad not too well. Maximum volume was loud and shrill inclined.
Applications & Games
Not only music, video, and photos that you can only enjoy on the iPod Touch second generation of this. You can also cram dozens of innovative applications and games-games fun into it. With the support of his Accelerometer technology, you can play games with the fun. For example, if you’re playing games, racing to turn the direction you just shake your iPod to the right or left. There’s even an application that asks you for iPod shuffle-cook to produce unique sounds. E-Mail With integrated applications that support Microsoft Excange – mobile me – Gmail – Yahoo! Mail – and others, you can read and reply to e-mails directly from the iPod Touch via Wi-Fi. Maps application that displays two-dimensional maps and satellite images of the earth, requires a Wi-Fi Internet connection. And other applications that exist in the iTunes Store you can download, some free some paid.
Performance
Performance of the iPod Touch in my opinion quite quickly. To play a video sized 1 GB more, require initial loading only 1-2 seconds. To display images in a large enough resolution was quite rushed, stay dragged your fingers. For business to copy data from your computer to the iPod Touch 2nd Generation, the process is really very, very fast. Copying files to iPod Touch 1 GB of not more than 1 minute! Really fast.
With such excellent performance which are, in my opinion ternyat disappointing battery performance. The batteries run out very quickly. To fill batereai of the state of 0% to 100% it took 4 hours! If from 0% to 80%, it took about two hours. When used for gaming, really batteries. To save battery, can be a way to dim the screen brightness. Update software version 2.2 with the size of the download reaches 277 MB is not too much to give improved performance.
Another deficiency is the iPod Touch 2nd Generation not as External Hard Disk, despite the use of technology SSD (Solid State Disk). It was useless if the hard disk has a super-fast SSD but could only be used for transverse multimedia files to iPod only. You can not see the directories in the iPod Touch is, therefore, to perform transverse non-multimedia data (music, video, photos), you have to use Wi-Fi connection. Quite cumbersome. Medium for multimedia files and applications, can pass to iTunes.
