New iPod Touch has better camera, faster – The Universal

Apple updated its iPod Touch music player for the first time in nearly three years at a time when the company tries to refocus on music as a substantial part of its business of electronic devices.

The new iPod Touch has a faster processor and better camera. It also has a software update that lets you use the music streaming service online Apple Music, which costs $ 10 per month and allows unlimited play millions of songs. The service was launched on June 30 at the increasing number of subscriptions to systems similar payment to iTunes from Apple itself.

The update is announced when the popularity of the iPod has waned.

The iPod was the first successful foray of the company in different fields to computers and opened the way for the iPhone launch six years later, in 2007. Although there were music players, the iPod was the first to simplify synchronization with music collections in digital format on personal computers.

However, in recent years many people use smartphones instead of listening music. The last time I gave Apple iPod sales figures for the July-September quarter of last year, said it sold 2.6 million, down 24% from the previous year and only a fraction of the 39 million iPhones that He sold in that quarter. Given the decline in demand of the iPod, Apple iPods are no longer updated each year as you usually do with their best sellers.

But the announcement shows that Apple has not rejected the iPod . The updated device has almost the same functions as an iPhone except cellular capabilities and uses the IOS operating system that lets you use most of the applications of that. Available to teenagers and other young people who may not need cellular phone or can not pay for it, services and applications Apple Music iPhone.

The device is available in the United States at a price of $ 199 is the cheapest, the same as an iPhone 6 with a service contract two years but the iPod Touch does not require a monthly fee for voice, text and data. You can make calls using the FaceTime application when a Wi-Fi connection is available.

is available in silver, gray and gold, like other Apple products, plus pink, blue and red. There is a 128-gigabyte model priced at $ 399. The basic model has a capacity of 16 gigabytes, enough for thousands of songs, but can also store photos, video and applications.