iPod Touch

• Playing music is just one of the features of personal music players like Apple iPods and Sandisk Sansa Fuze. On the surface, it is hard to tell what's new about the 2nd generation iPod Touch.

• The standard iPod features, such as playing music, audio books, podcasts, video and displaying photos, are all there.

• The big new features in the latest Apple Nano and Touch players is the built-in accelerometer, which finds expression mainly in the new games and 'shake' to shuffle feature and Genius playlists that are also a feature of the required iTunes 8 software.

• Turn the iPod on its side while you are playing music and the display automatically changes to cover view mode, so you can flick through your album covers using the click wheel. Videos also play in landscape mode by default.

• Even with all the new features, the new Nano delivers upwards of 24 hours of battery time for audio and 5 hours of video playback time. The tiny battery can charge up to 80 per cent in about 90 minutes.

• The Apple iPod Touch 8GB is priced at Rs 12,800, Rs 16,100 for 16GB (around 3,500 songs) and Rs 21,100 for 32GB (around 7000 songs). The Nano 8GB and 16 GB cost Rs 8,200 and Rs 10,500 respectively.

• What makes the new iPod players winners are impeccable looks and plethora of accelerometer-based games