iPod Touch 2nd Generation

Size and weight  

• Height: 110 mm (4.3 inches)
• Width: 61.8 mm (2.4 inches)
• Depth: 8.5 mm (0.33 inches) 
• Weight: 115 grams (4.05 ounces)

Display

• 3.5-inch (diagonal) widescreen Multi-Touch display
• 480-by-320-pixel resolution at 163 pixels per inch

Audio 

• Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz
• Audio formats supported: AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3 and 4), Apple Lossless, AIFF and WAV

Input and output 

Capacity

• 8GB, 16GB or 32GB flash drive¹
• Holds up to 1,750, 3,500 or 7,000 songs in 128-Kbps AAC format²
• Holds up to 10,000, 20,000 or 25,000 iPod-viewable photos³
• Holds up to 10 hours, 20 hours or 40 hours of video⁴

Wireless⁵

• Wi-Fi (802.11b/g)
• Nike + iPod support built in
• Maps location-based service⁶

 

In the box 

• iPod touch
• Earphones
• USB 2.0 cable
• Dock adapter
• Polishing cloth
• Quick Start guide

Tv and video

• Support for 480p and 576p component TV out
• H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4 and .mov file formats; H.264 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 3.0 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4 and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4 and .mov file formats 

Languages 

• 17 languages supported: English, French, German, Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Russian, Polish
• 30 international keyboards supported: English (US and UK), Czech, Danish, German, Spanish, Finnish, Estonian, French (France and Canada), Croatian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese (QWERTY and Kana), Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Norwegian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Swedish, Turkish, Simplified Chinese (Handwriting and Pinyin), Traditional Chinese (Handwriting and Pinyin)
• 19 dictionaries supported: English (US and UK), Danish, German, Spanish, Finnish, French (France and Canada), Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), Russian, Swedish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

 

External button and control  

• Sleep/wake
• Volume up/down
• Home

Battery and power 

• Built-in rechargeable lithium ion battery
• Playback time
  • Music playback time: Up to 36 hours when fully charged
  • Video playback time: Up to 6 hours when fully charged
  
• Charging via USB to computer system or power adapter (sold separately)
  • Fast-charge time: about 2 hours (charges up to 80% of battery capacity)
  • Full-charge time: about 4 hours

Mac system requirements

• Mac computer with USB 2.0 port
• Mac OS X v10.4.10 or later
• iTunes 8 or later⁸

Windows system requirements

• PC with USB 2.0 port
• Windows Vista or Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 3 or later
• iTunes 8 or later⁸

Environmental requirements

• Operating temperature: 0° to 35° C (32° to 95° F)
• Nonoperating temperature: -20° to 45° C
  (-4° to 113° F)
• Relative humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing
• Maximum operating altitude: 3000 m (10,000 feet)

Page 1 : What's new in the iPod Touch 2nd Generation
Page 2 : Specifications
Page 3 : Pictures of the iPod Touch 2nd Generation
Page 4 : Links related to the iPod Touch 2nd Generation
Page 5 : What are the Reviewers Saying about the iPod Touch 2nd Generation

Posted by Desire Athow on 25 Sept. 2008

Désiré Athow is the Content Editor for ITProportal.com and has been writing tech articles for nearly a decade. You can follow him on Twitter.

Tags: apple, ipod

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