Low-cost iPod gets iSight cam

Apple has announced that its 16GB iPod touch with a 4″ Retina display is now equipped with a 5 megapixel iSight camera which offers 1080p HD video recording.

The entire iPod touch lineup features a 5 megapixel iSight camera with 1080p HD video recording, 4″ Retina display, Apple’s A5 chip and FaceTime camera. The iPod touch features an ultra-thin and light anodised aluminium design and is available in pink, yellow, blue, silver, space grey and red.

iPod touch comes with iOS 7, offering more than 200 features including camera app filters that let you easily add real-time photo effects. Additionally, the Photos app offers ways to automatically organise photos based on time and location. With iCloud Photo Sharing, it’s simple to share photos and videos, allowing anyone to comment on them and access their shared streams from any iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac or PC. Later this year, iOS 8 will be supported on the entire iPod touch lineup.

With the App Store on iPod touch, users in 155 countries have access to over 1.2 million apps for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, including hundreds of thousands of games. More than 75 billion apps have been downloaded from the App Store. Customers also have the iTunes Store at their fingertips, giving instant access to an incredible selection of music, TV shows, movies and books to purchase and download directly to their iPod touch.

Availability

iPod touch 16GB is available starting in the US today and worldwide in the coming days, in pink, yellow, blue, silver and space grey through Apple Authorised Resellers. Starting today, the 32GB and 64GB models have been repriced worldwide. iPod touch requires a Wi-Fi connection or a Mac with a USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 port, Mac OS X v10.6.8 or later and iTunes 10.7 or later: or a Windows PC with a USB 2.0 port and Windows 7, Windows Vista or Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 3 or later and iTunes 10.7 or later. An Apple ID is required for some iPod touch features.

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