once the Apple TV was powered up, all I needed to do was to press Play on a video on the iPod touch 4G

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But chances are your current digital camera can't use Wi-Fi to geo-tag your pics, adding optional location data to the files so they can be organized by each stop on your vacation, for example. The apple peel iPod touch 4G can do that. touch-4g-back-and-side-WEB.jpg The latest iPod touch features video/still cameras fore and aft. Basic video editing software is pre-loaded, so we can pull up a filmstrip-style layout of scenes in our captured movies and pick start/end points to cut accordingly. We can also step up to the $4.99 iMovie application for apple peel itouch fancier post-production, all without ever connecting to a computer. That's pretty impressive for a handheld device, and that power comes from the Apple A4 processor chip, essential to the heavy lifting behind video editing, FaceTime calls and the touch 4G's ability to multitask. 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Along the way, some of us gave up waiting, because of all the difficulties--some unavoidable, some deliberate in an attempt to apple 520 "manage" our digital rights--that kept getting in the way. But Apple finally figured it out: With AirPlay, we can stream content from our iPod touch 4G to the TV by way of a properly updated Apple TV, over a wireless home network. No cables. No dock. No hassle. In fact, once the christmas lights Apple TV was powered up, all I needed to do was to press Play on a video on the iPod touch 4G, whereupon I saw a brand-new icon, like an arrow pointing at a TV screen. I tapped it and was asked if I wanted to switch the video playback from the iPod touch to the Apple ipad stylus TV and, after just a few seconds of buffering, the video continued playing where I left off, only now on my 50-inch TV. As usual, standard-def iTunes videos look okay at this size, while HD files look terrific. When I did the same with a song, AirPlay even pushed a little window onto the TV, over the Apple TV menus, with track info and thumbnail cover art. It's elegant, it's easy, and it worked exactly as I was expecting it to, which isn't always the case in consumer electronics. Streaming audio and video from the iPod to my home theater was absolute pleasure. santa hats touch-4g-flat-phones-WEB.jpg When you look this good, you don't have to do nothin'. The day-to-day operation of the touch 4G is pretty familiar, with neat grids of tappable icons that launch the various apps, easy scrolling of song lists and TV episodes, and of course the ability to flip christmas tree lights through photos and album covers with just the flick of a finger. The Multi-Touch display has key spy lost none of its charm, nor its ability to sense our fingertips by the use of sophisticated electrical fields. (And still no static shocks.) I would have thought that smaller was universally better, particularly when the screen doesn't lose any real estate  sim cutter and none of the myriad bells and whistles accumulated by the touch over several generations appear to have been dropped. But I found myself cradling li'l 4G rather delicately, perhaps because I've grown so used to holding his heftier older brothers, not to mention the iPhone 4. Loading it into a Speck Products CandyShell Grip Case made me feel a lot better, and it improved my game, too. Physically, the one detail I didn't care for in the hardware redesign was the way in which the tiny volume and power buttons now seem more difficult silly bandz to get a good hold of. Turn-Ons: * AirPlay: Coolest. Feature. Ever. * Retina display brings stellar quality to ipad mount all applications * FaceTime video calling to iPhone 4 and other iPod touch 4G's, over Wi-Fi... for free! Turn-Offs: * The still camera is a terrific addition, but not at only 960-by-720 quality * How small is too small when it comes to edge-mounted buttons? Final Thoughts/Conclusion My grousing dapeng t7000 about the buttons and the still camera resolution is somewhat ludicrous in the face of all the advancements obvious in the fourth-generation iPod touch. Apple has managed to make their best portable media player even better, with features that the faithful have been demanding in addition to some that come as game-changing surprises.