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Before i begin let me unbiased whine you "what's Original" with the iPod touch Third generation" :
-Faster Cpu/Double the ram/Better graphic (faster Boot time/faster loading is all what i did spy)
-Double the storage for the same obsolete mark
-Voice control (I'll clarify it in a second)
-Latest firmware for free
-New Earbuds with built in remote+Microphone (So you can spend sing control)
And that is everything~ depends on your needs upgrading from 2G to 3G might be not worth it.
*Important Note* : only the Original iPod touch 32GB/64GB are third generation ~ (8GB is repacked 2G) Details below.
About the current Convey control function, if you fancy to seize your iPod with you to the Gym the fresh feature "Instruct control" is splendid frosty, it does allow you to control your music via your divulge, no need to catch the iPod out of your pocket you can simply say "Next" to recede to next song, say "dart" for hump, say "Cease" and music playback will terminate etc, that is why i recommend the iPod touch over iPod classic for gym users, my friend bought an iPod classic and now he complains that the iPod classic is too heavy for him when he goes to the gym and he will have to consume another iPod "properly Nano" for his Gym, for me i expend my iPod touch for the gym, it's so light that sometimes i forgot that it's even in my pocket.
After playing with my iPod touch 3g for a while i honestly did not inspect any dissimilarity from the outside or the inside compared to my worn iPod touch Second generation (It's supposed to be faster but i did not recognize anything during music and video playback or the menus, however browsing with safari and loading facebook was faster, same thing with boot time), you properly can only stare it being faster with heavy applications since video/music playback is already posthaste enough with 2G.
I got the 64GB iPod 3G for [...]$, if you mediate of upgrading your 2G iPod touch honestly do yourself a favor and attach yourself the money unless you really need that worthy of a storage (I do that is why i bought one), also remember that the 3G battery lasts less than 2G,(3G battery = 30 Hours of music playback versus 2G 36 hours of music playback according to apple official specs)
*VERY IMPORTANT* for the people who wants the fresh 8GB version, the unique third generation 8GB iPod touch is NOT 3G it's a second generation iPod touch but apple did repack it/renamed it to 3rd generation, which seems to be misleading by APPLE and it's not icy at all, it is IPod Touch 2G+Updated firmware and that is it.
The iPod touch 3rd generation 32GB/64GB versions comes with a free mic+remote with the earbuds while the 8GB do not (it comes with normal earbuds), the 32GB/64GB have the Fresh CPU+Graphic (According to apple the unusual cpu is twice as rapid impartial like the iPhone 3GS) while the recent 8GB expend the same feeble CPU/Chip from the archaic iPod touch second generation.
Here is APPLE description on the iPod touches page about the 32/64GB versions : """Appreciate all the big features of the 8GB model along with better performance, richer graphics and mumble control"""
The iPod touch 3rd generation is the same awesome iPod touch second generation was.
You can play your music/watch your videos/play games, even read your kindle books/etc "you can read amazon tall description of what it's suitable of if you do not know yet, it's better than what would i say because it has pictures and everything.
The iPod touch got the best browser i have ever seen in a portable method, i do not even need to carry my netbook with me anymore thanks to my iPod touch, if you hated browsing with lame browsers that wreck a lot or listless (many mobile phones) trust me on this one, the iPod touch browser is not a toy or a gimmick it is a browser you can depends on, it's smart posthaste and calm and after using it for like a chunky year it has only crashed on me once!
Short list of pros and cons about the iPod touch
Pros:
-Slick,limited and light diagram
-Great touch conceal
-The BEST web browser on a portable plan
-Amazing video/music playback
-App Store (Too many frosty applications for Free)
-Display shroud is definite and sparkling
-No bugs and annoying stuff a very ample hardware
-64GB Flash based mp3 player
Cons:
-Not remarkable of an upgrade over 2G (people were disappointed because they did not secure upgrades like camera/OLED/etc)
-Weaker battery, only lasts 30 hours for music playback versus 2G iPod touch 36 Hours music playback
-Expensive for the 64GB version
-Still no FM radio without the consume of online applications
-Bluetooth is calm half locked
I hope my review was beneficial 
This review could be summerd up in a short sentence: You are looking at the fresh killer appliance for personal entertainment. But I never, ever, do short reviews... So here's the long tale. Grab a cup of coffee, as this review answers questions you never knew existed.
I have to admit that there have been few items that have captured and kept my enthusiasm for as long as the iPod Touch. Two years ago, I purchased the novel Touch, last year I upgraded to the 32 GB, and now I have the 64GB version. Was the upgrade worth it? And what are the things yet to be imroved? Because even though the Touch is terminate to perfection, there are collected many shrimp things that can be improved.
Hardware
Physically, the modern (64GB) Touch is identical to it's 2nd generation brethren. It's polished crome backplate is slightly crooked, making it fit your palm perfectly. As before, the fact that it's made from polished chrome will guarantee that it attracts fingerprints and scratches almost magically. I'm no friend of any kind of protective covers, and my last (32GB) Touch had to live in my pocket with my keys, coins, and other stuff I threw in with it. After a year, the backplate did win up a lot of scratches, and I put a question to that the 64GB to fare no better. Personally, I would have preferred a brushed achieve for the backplate. This may have caused problems with the readability of the customized engraving that Apple applies to the Touch on the backplate for no additional charge (a nice 'touch' that becomes increasingly essential as the Touch becomes more ubiquitious) . This custom engraving you can only secure if you order the Touch through Apple (it's also not available in the Apple Stores) .
The front plate is made from one of the most impressive glass enhancements I've ever seen. After a year of heavy abuse, my dilapidated Touch's glass front has not a single scratch - not one. I don't know how Apple does it, but this is really impressive. Remember, I don't exercise any protective covers or films. The mask itself is bright, lustrous, and can easily be read outside, wich is a feat in itself. The Touch has an ambient light sensor, so it can sunless the mask when the surroundings are darker.
This time around, the screen's color temperature has remained unchanged (the 2G shifted all colors from a blueish to a more golden tinge) . Movie playback is simply fantastic. The image is crisp, and the on-screen controls natural. Again, there are niceties such as double-tapping the camouflage to change aspect ratio, or placing bookmarks etc. You calm can't spot a movie's inequity, but beyond that exiguous protest, movie playback is perfect. Viewing movies on the Touch simply works ample, but personally I contemplate that the shroud is too runt to gawk a rotund movie. Last week, I tried watching a TV episode while on a plane enroute to Hamburg (a 75 miniature flight), but fleet decided against it, opting instead to play a game of 'Luxor'. Somehow I steal a larger cloak for titillating video, while I have no problems doing something interactive on it. Tranquil, video plays spacious on the Touch.
Button and interface lay-out has remained the same from the last generation: volume controls on the left side, top holds the 'exit/on' button, buttom has dock and phones connectors, and the front holds the single home button. There is one thing that can be improved here: I would have preferred the audio connector to be on top (or either side), as the modern configuration precludes the consume of many applications (e.g. News- and eBook readers) when you want to region it good -- for example in the Gym. Some apps do utilize the accelerometers and can be mature positioning the Touch upside down, though.
The built-in speaker is unchanged from the last version. It's stale, tinny, mono, produces cross sound, has no volume to deny of -- and yet it's one of the best additions to the Touch (the current didn't have it, the 2nd gen did) . It simply makes casual gaming so noteworthy more fun. I don't care about the unpleasant sound quality, I unprejudiced admire the fact that it's there.
The signatory white earphones that Apple sells with the Touch may inspect pleasant, but I don't like them. In my ears they are too depressed. Since I'm no audiophile, I can't comment on their audio quality other than that it's satisfactory enough for me. Anyway, I replaced them with my popular non-Apple version. The hitch here is that Apple now delivers the 64 GB (and 32 GB) with earphones that sport a built-in mic and remote. And my head phones don't have that. While the remote is nothing noteworthy to write home about (the diagram it works is impartial too complex), the mic works well, and has fair the legal fidelity to grasp out negate over the background noise. So, for now, I withhold the white buds with me in case I want to employ the IP-telephony capabilities.
Battery life appears to have been reduced somewhat from the 2nd gen - at least on paper. During the past few days the fresh 3rd gen Touch certainly performed as well as or even better than my 2nd gen - but then again, that one's battery is already one year weak. One fact that I've become very fond of is the quick-charge ability, which works really well.
The built-in wireless connectivity is really nice, with astonishingly well executed integration. The touch does all it's wireless networking over WiFi and Bluetooth. WiFi works really well (especially here in Switzerland where Hotspots are particularely dense), and Bluetooth integration (which I tried on the 3rd gen for the first time) is flawless. WiFi reception (range) lags somewhat slack that of a Wintel laptop (no doubt due to the metal backplate) and is dazzling mighty on par with that of a 15" Macbook Pro (which is also somewhat lacking in WiFi reception range) . WiFi is quiet the 'g' variant though [interestingly enough, the built-in hardware does aid 11n, but so far Apple has chosen not to activate it, presumably to conserve battery. This is piquant also from the fact that in the 2G Touch, Apple initially included Bluetooth capabilities, but only activated it with a later OS release. Perhaps the same can be expected for 11n]. Bluetooth now also works with headphones and BT-based car integration kits (works well in mine) . I would have loved to try out BT-based printing from the Calender or Addressbook app, but hit a snag: it appears no Touch app supports printing...
Missing Hardware
There is some hardware that I expected, or whished that it was included in the Touch - especially as (some) of them are now exhibit on other iPods:
No camera. I was somewhat ambivalent about this. No camera means no pictures and/or movies. But it also means that I can withhold handling it rough, as I do not have to difficulty abou the lens. Also, I don't have to pain about taking it to the Gym (my Gym has very strict rules towards camera-equipped items) . All things being equal, the addition of a camera (smooth and/or video) would have been nice, but I don't miss it grand (truth be told, I yet have to utilize the camera on my mobile phone) .
Unfortunately, there is also no built-in mic. This is worthy a more essential omission than having no camera. The Touch is a first class audio suppose recorder and (more importantly for me) a first class Skype client. There are third party solutions for this (a mini-micro that directly plugs into the headphone connector), but if the touch had a built-in mike, it would acquire using world-class applications like Shazam (and Skype) so distinguished easier
Likewise, there is no compass, nor a GPS receiver display in the touch. I understand that these are left out to better differentiate the Touch from the iPhone, but I would have welcomed them in the top-of-the-line (64GB) version of the iPod.
And, finally, there is no radio receiver. I'm definitely not a radio man, as I next to never listen to it. Smooth, some people do (as the ton of nicely selling IP radio applications shows), and anyway, the Nano has it now - even with a nice Tivoesque stay feature! Why not the Touch? Curious execute choice.
iPod & iTunes
The new iPod's strength was the sheer gleaming ease of exhaust - and the touch-based interface represented a mile-stone in improving on that. To date there simply is no better multimedia interface than that of the Touch/iPhone. It's natural after fair a few seconds. It's drop-dead graceful, with muted highlights, and cleverly accentuated by puny (if flashy) animations that snarl the different metaphors of the interface (e.g. the rubber-banded bouncing when you arrive the waste of a playlist) . Like no interface before you can instantly expend it to do even complex tasks with unbiased the flick of a finger. Using it is sheer, unadulterated fun. The 'Coverflow' album browsing may be one of the least useful, but it's definitely the most natural (and fun) device to flip though you music. And it is jaw-droppingly well executed (note: when you employ coverflow you should manufacture clear that you have installed the all mask art from any music you did not select from the iTunes Store) .
At the unfavorable of all iPod music playing is the Playlist, and using playlist on the Touch is a joy. The interface whileplaying is also stale, offering niceties such as displaying a song's lyrics on a single tap, along with singularily simple controls for inform and slouch play. Unfortunately, this playlist feature also aloof has one of the most glaring shortcomings: the Touch is unable to play playlist groups. I usually group a limited bunch of songs into very short playlist (e.g. '10 best Springsteen'), and then mix these playlist into larger ones by simply dropping a playlist into a group. Although iTunes supports this, all versions of the Touch have stubbornly refused to do that.
Also somewhat strangely missing on the Touch is the ability to search for an Artist or music title. Considering the fact that more than 10'000 songs fit onto the arrangement the need for an ability to search for something would seem positive (note: the Touch *does* have a global search function, which will also turn up songs - along with contacts and mails that match your search phrase. Having to leave the iPod app simply to contemplate for a song is against everything Apple's ease of consume is about, and it's not what I would put a question to) . And while we are at it, I'd fancy the ability to also search the lyrics, but that would be the icing on the cake.
What is explain, and what continues to amaze me is a function that I initially dismissed as some plot to sell song: Genius Playlists. What it does is that given a song it finds other songs you already hold that would play nicely together. Since I have lots of songs (else I wouldn't be purchasing the 64GB), this feature has helped me to find an fantastic amount of additional joy out of my music. There are lots of gems hidden that mass of music I never knew I owned. Of course, if you want to, Genius will also recommend songs you don't have but can select upright now on iTunes. That, of course, is the 'sell song' angle. But at least it's incredibly well executed (and yes, I've aged it)
The 64GB now also supports sing recognition - and I'm definite it's a marvel of technology. But (noteworthy like the auto-correction system for text) it mostly only works in English. If you have area your system to German, you must command english band names as they would be read aloud by a german-only speaker. Do it once, and everyone in the room stares at you. You'll never do it again. Plus, due to the greater complexity of the german language (I am german speaking), the commands only work half the time. A nice belief, and a boon while driving or typing. But *only* when plot to english.
Rounding out the audiovisual feature station is the Touch's photo presentation ability, really showcasing the touch-based gesture interface. It was the pinch and flick gesture that originally sold me on the Touch, and it detached does today. On the Mac, iTunes ties into iPhoto's image management, greatly facilitating the task of sorting out which images to synch to your iPod (on windows, this task is slightly more pedestrian, as you'll have to manually manage the 'My Pictures' folder) . A queer quirk, though, is that during synch iTunes seems to downsample your images to a (to me unknown, but definitely) smaller size. Since I'm a photo nut (shooting with DSLR) this 'feature' annoys me somewhat, as iTunes currently does not provide any means to control the downsampling of photos.
The success of the unusual iPod has left some competitors scratching their heads, while it is blindingly positive to most users: the tight, seamless integration with iTunes. Now in version 9, iTunes has become somewhat complex and not always that intuitive to exhaust. It now also tries to manage Photos and Movies as well as Music and Applications. But iTunes is collected very easy to employ, and synchronizing the iPod Touch with iTunes is speedily and simple. A exiguous disappointment is the fact that you unexcited can't synchronize your Touch wirelessly, and that it tranquil refuses to mount as an external disk. Another disappointment is that although iTunes now allows you to part your music over the come by with multiple Macs, it can't stream your Music to the Touch (A runt, shining app from the AppStore can do this for you, though) .
And while we are speaking of iTunes - there is one feature that I'd worship to have on the Touch: the visualizer. iTunes' visualizer is really splendid, and I would have loved the same functionality on my Touch.
Internet
While by itself the iPod Touch is an impressive and fun way, it comes into accurate swing when connected to the internet. The always-on nature and exquisite handling of connection drops develop the Touch one of the best internet devices I've extinct to day. The included Safari internet browser performs stout - unless you try to load Flash-based declare, which is not supported. The email client works astronomical for receiving and viewing mail. Writing anything but the shortest of email is annoying, as the Touch is simply too runt for comfortably entering any primary amount of text. Calendar and Address Book are well executed (even if entering a novel date and merging multiple calenders is slightly more convoluted than principal) . Mail, Calendar and Addressbook can (if you have that service available) synch live to either mobile me (which Apple loves to sell you) or Exchange (which your employer loves to force on you) through a feature that is very similar to 'push' notification. In the past, using Exchange has been somewhat spotty, and mobile Me has had it's gain fraction of problems. All in all, though both work nice, and exceedingly hasty. You do need to be in range of a hotspot for this to function, though. Somewhat disappointing is the fact that notes are not synched. Another nice addition is 'Voice Memos' which is an audio recorder. Had the Touch an internal mic, this app would have been even better...
Applications
Next to the 'productivity' or 'PDA' suite (Mail, Calendar, Contacts) the touch comes with some other nice (but somewhat expressionless) apps (e.g. Maps, Stocks, YouTube) and two killer Apps: iTunes and App Store. While the stale gives you instant access to all songs and movies that are currently available on iTunes (Warning: that, plus the wonderful 'Shazam' can lead to unintented inferior music spending), the latter (App Store) gives you equal instant access to an fabulous number of applications that you can instantly download and exhaust. The quality of applications on the App Store is quite uneven, and tends to cluster around some rather puerile topics (as a veritable, uh, heap, of Fart applications proves) . That being said, there are a number of jaw-droppingly salubrious applications that are able to use the touch interface (and other capabilities such as accelerometer) in unusual and surprising ways. Honest to name a few are the aforementioned 'Shazam' that can identify a song being played and instantly link to iTunes (you have to behold it in action to possess it), Flight Control, where you manage an airport by drawing the flight path for each plane, Bloomberg that provides stock information in an exhaustive device, and Wemlin that shows an up-to-date timetable for when the next tram arrives at my space. No matter what, there probably is an application that supports you with it.
And then there are games. Apple had speedy recognized that the Touch represents an immensely aesthetic and great game platform. Performance, camouflage, connectivity and control capabilities design it the ideal casual gaming platform. Accordingly, games describe by far the largest category in the App store. While inevitably there are some truly awfully executed, or simply lifeless games, the majority of the available games are at least somewhat curious, while some rival and exceed those that can be had for thrice the mark on dedicated gaming platforms.
In the past, my Touch fast filled up with app after app that I simply couldn't live without any more, and an unforseen limitation of the Touch's perform surfaced: app management. Applications are arranged as icons on a 4x4 grid per page, with multiple pages that you can flick left and apt to navigate. Unfortunately, re-arranging apps, although possible (and quite ingeniously implemented) is serene a chore. Apple has done the suitable thing, and integrated a noteworthy nicer app manager into the (PC/Mac) iTunes application.
Speed Improvement
The iPod Touch, although seen by some as the 'iPhone's smaller sibling' was always either as nible as the phone, or even faster. The unique, 3rd gen Touch is said to be 'up to 50% faster' than the previous generation. To be unbiased, I'm not obvious that I behold that race improvent translate to worthy performance increase. That may be due to the fact that my Touch seldom maxes out on processor throughput or (for example when browsing) that WiFi bandwidth is the limiting factor. Some apps appear to be 'snappier' during start-up (smaller apps) or execution (games, mostly), but all in all, the Touch delicate powerful seems to be as rapidly as the last generation. This leads me to occupy that the exact bottleneck is it's internal execution memory (i.e. not the 64 GB storage, but processor memory), and ony applications that are specifically written to grasp advantage of original technology (e.g. OpenGL ES) . Or in other words: the overall hurry has not been improved that worthy.
SDK
So you want to be a geek? Already are? You can write your fill applications for the Touch if you like. I've taken the fall and downloaded the SDK. Stamp that you can download the SDK and make for the Touch/iPhone without actually owning one. The development system comes with a iPhone simulator that you can utilize to test your applications without downloading them unto an dependable map (it does have some limitations: for example, the accelerometers are not simulated, and you have no indication of the moral execution race) . Well, you do need a Mac for this (although it can be a few years worn) . The SDK is impressive - overwhelming even if you are not archaic to Mac programming (and almost prohibitively complex if you are not archaic to frameworks like Cocoa and object-oriented programming) . Smooth, crunching out your first (very basic) appliction is surprisingly easy, and if you roll that arrangement, you'll accumulate addicted fleet.
Summary:
It's the killer personal entertainment blueprint. Occupy it. You know you want it -- especially if you have read this far. If you have the 2nd gen iPod, you may need to ask yourself if the tiny accelerate bump and the additional storage is worth the hefty heed note. To me it was, but your mileage may vary.
pros
+ world class touch/gesture interface
+ best iPod audiovisual experience around (music, video, photos)
+ killer feature: app store and application availability
+ killer feature: internet integration (browsing and push technology)
+ broad movie playback
+ really apt casual gaming device
+ slightly improved accelerate (allegedly, only for some games)
+ sizable integration with mobile me (calender, mail sync) or Exchange
+ really salubrious SDK if you are geeky enough to roll your bear apps
cons
- no built-in mic (headphones do have them)
- polished chrome backplate (I would have preferred a brushed do)
- no gps, camera, compass
- no radio (nano has it? )
- no sync of notes, no wireless sync of music/movies
- spotty swear recognition in languages other than english
- no control over downsampling of photos
- no search function for music inside the iPod app
- no visualizer
In anticipation of the eventual death of my Olympus M:Robe mp3 player, I purchased the Ipod Touch (3rd gen) yesterday. So far I have found things that I really like about this plan and things that I despise about this plot.
What I like: pleasing design; lightweight; relatively easy to region up and expend even if, like me, you have never owned an ipod before; energy efficient; nice graphics; passcode lock capability
What I don't like: I wish that I could multitask ie- have a Safari window originate and jet over to another application with the flick of a finger and approach attend to Safari without having to relaunch Safari. Articulate control is not all it's cracked up to be. You can't impartial say a relate into the mic. You must push on the headphone remote or contain down the HOME button, wait for Suppose Control to pop up and then say your sing. The headphone remote is quite useful, but I examine no need for Deliver Control if you constantly need to push buttons anyway to activate it. While I have only conventional my Ipod Touch at home so far I have found it difficult to retain a sincere wifi signal. I am running my iPod Touch beside my MacBook and my iPod Touch cannot catch up the signal. Finally, Apple offers you the choice of a number of colossal Backgrounds but you can't actually exhaust them the blueprint you deem you should be able to. Obvious you can rob the "Wallpaper" you would like, but it will not appear on your Home Conceal. Instead it will appear only on the "Unlock" page which you will encounter every time you need to unlock the device
Overall I mediate that this is a comely contrivance and I would probably recommend this product to a friend... with a few words of caution about the aforementioned things that I don't particularly like about the Touch at the moment
