The first-generation iPod Touch, (colloquially known as the iPod Touch 1G, iPod Touch 1, or original iPod Touch) is a multi-touch mobile device designed and marketed by

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with a touchscreen-based

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. The first device of the

iPod Touch The iPod Touch (stylized as iPod touch) is a discontinued line of iOS-based mobile devices designed and formerly marketed by Apple Inc. with a touchscreen-controlled user interface. As with other iPod models, the iPod Touch can be used as a po ...

series, it was unveiled and released at Apple's media event on September 5, 2007. It is compatible with up to iPhone OS 3.1.3 which was released on February 2, 2010. Unlike the iPhone, the iPod Touch does not have a speaker or a camera. A speaker was added in the second generation, while a front and rear camera were added in the fourth generation.

History

The first-generation iPod touch was released after the first-generation iPhone as a companion device. It had similar features, but a thinner design with an all-metal back except for a small corner cut out for WiFi 802.11 b/g, allowing it to use

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to browse websites. It used the same 30-pin connector as the first-generation iPhone and previous

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s, allowing most iPod accessories to work with the iPod touch. Ipod touch 1

Features

Software

It fully supports iPhone OS 1 to iPhone OS 3, though it received different features at different times from the first-generation iPhone. It also did not have the iPod app as it was an iPod, and instead had the Music app for playing music and podcasts, with a separate Videos app to watch videos. It also received the iTunes Store app before the iPhone did - the first-generation iPod touch received the iTunes Store app on launch with iPhone OS 1.1 on September 14, 2007, while the first-generation iPhone received the iTunes Store app on September 27, 2007, with the release of iPhone OS 1.1.1. It also had

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, and Photos apps preinstalled. The iPhone OS 2.0 update introduced the

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, but unlike the iPhone, it was not available for free. Free iOS updates were not available on the iPod touch until iOS 4, which is not supported on this model. An unofficial port of Android 2.3 Gingerbread called ''iDroid'' supports the first-generation iPod touch.

Emulation

In December 2022, Internet user Martijn de Vos, also known as devos50 has reverse engineered this device to successfully create a

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emulation of this device, running iPhone OS 1.0.

References

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