![]() Actually recording with the thing was fiddly, and you only got VGA ( 640×480) output, but it’d be another year before the iPod touch line would blaze past with its fancy HD video recording. The revised unit added radio and iPod tagging, VoiceOver, Nike+ integration, and – for the first time in an iPod – a video camera. With the fifth-gen, the case remained fairly similar to that of its immediate predecessor, but the technology within was much more interesting. Whereas the second-generation iPod had Windows compatibility through Musicmatch, now iTunes moved to Windows, enabling the 95 per cent or so of people who weren’t Mac users to enjoy its charms.Īnd what a list of charms it had: that lovely, rounded case, a throne-like dock, plus an extra five minutes of skip-protection (up to 25 minutes), a minor miracle for those still used to babying their CD Walkmans.īetween 20, the iPod Nano had gone all colourful, turned into a squat credit-card-sized device, and then became ultra-streamlined. And it was also a future that Windows users were now properly invited to. ![]() Glowing buttons and a touch wheel on the third-generation iPod made you feel a bit like you were living in the future. ![]() Trying to cram an iPad into our jeans just isn’t going to be the same. Coupled with the tiny form factor, it was great for kids or for slinging in a pocket. And it was absurdly light – the final iteration weighed just 88g. But why’s it so high up in this list? Because it was brilliant.įor a relatively small outlay, you got the iPhone’s most important bits – a touchscreen display and access to the App Store. Sorry, purists – we’ve decided the iPod Touch is a ‘proper’ iPod and not an old-school iPhone someone ran over with a steamroller and hacked the Phone app off of using a chisel.
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