• • Manufacturer: Apple

• Designer: Jonathan Ive

  • Generation: 3rd Generation

  • Bits: 16

  • Year Released: 2007

  • Units sold: 20 million

  • Media: Flash Memory, 8, 32, 64 GB

• Summary:

  • Working off the success of it's iPod series, Apple released the iPod Touch. It branched out from just being another mp3 player by allowing access to the internet, email, games, and more. It also has touch and tilt capability for more a different type of gaming experience for a handheld device.

History

The first generation of the iPod Touch was launched on September 5, 2007. It was the first in the line of iPods that had a multi-touch graphical user interface, allowing wireless access to the iTunes store as well as accessing Apple's App store. This allowed users to purchase and download content directly onto the iPod Touch. The 2nd generation came out on September 8, 2009, adding several updates to its hardware with a follow up iPod Touch, which is unofficially reffered to as the 3rd Generation or 3G. It has been making headsway in the gaming market, ganing 5% of the total market revenue in the last year and a half. Its potential could reach other handheld devices success because of its versatile arrangement of games to choose from, most price ranged under 10 dollars. It has had the success of its other counterparts, like the iPod and iPhone.

Hardware

CPU: 1st generation: ARM11 620 MHz (underclocked to 400 MHz, then 412 MHz)

2nd generation: ARM11 620 MHz (underclocked to 533 MHz), with internal ARM7 core for Jazelle acceleration

3rd generation: ARM Cortex-A8 833 MHz (underclocked to 600 MHz)

Graphics: 1st/2nd generation: PowerVR MBX Lite

3rd generation: PowerVR SGX

Memory: 1st/2nd generation: 128 MB DRAM

3rd generation: 256 MB DRAM

Display: 320 × 480 px, 3.5 in (89 mm), 2:3 aspect ratio, 262,144-color LCD at 163 pixels per inch (ppi)

Input: Multi-touch touchscreen display

ambient light sensors

3-axis accelerometer

volume buttons on 2nd generation

voice control

Connectivity: Wi-Fi (802.11b/g)

USB 2.0/Dock connector

Bluetooth

-2nd generation: Bluetooth 2.1+EDR

External Hardware

There has been many different types of external hardware for the iPod Touch.

Universal Dock

Composite AV Cable + USB Charging Sync Cable

iTrip Style FM transmitter with Car charger & Remote

Microphone

Apple Headphones (or any headphones)

Notable Qualities

Any 3rd party developers can release games through Apple's App store, charging either a free or releasing their game for free.

The iPod Touch has more features than just a normal handheld console by being a mp3, having internet access, wi-fi, bluetooth, and multiple apps.

Uses its touch capability to go through menus and for actually gameplay and has a tilt function.

More than 30,000 games have been released for the iPod Touch since July 2008.

Notable Titles

Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor

Doodle Jump

Flight Control

Zen Bound

Space Ninja

Meteor Blitz

Pac Man CE

Space Invaders Infinity Gene

Soosiz

Rogue Touch

Sword of Fargoal

Toki Tori

Canabalt

N.O.V.A.

Battle Bears

Minigore

Pocket God

Zenonia

Underworlds

Peggle

iBlast Moki

References

http://www.macworld.com/article/135484/2008/09/ipodtouchfirstlook.html?lsrc=rss_main

http://gizmodo.com/5447391/the-53-best-iphone-games

http://toucharcade.com/

http://blog.flurry.com/bid/31566/Apple-iPhone-and-iPod-touch-Capture-U-S-Video-Game-Market-Share