7. Photos, Camera, FaceTime, and YouTube
Your iPod is an audio wonder, able to both record and play music, but it’s also a visual delight. And no, I’m not referring to its lustrous design. I’m talking pictures (both those you take and those you view), the moving pictures you can record with a 4G iPod touch, the video calls you can make thanks to the 4G iPod touch’s built-in cameras and FaceTime technology, and those movies and clips streamed from the free Web-based video-sharing service YouTube.
The grumps among us might grouse that these features are some of the iPod’s least necessary—after all, few of us absolutely require an iPod that can take a quick picture or movie, display gorgeous slideshows, participate in a video call, or stream videos ...
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