Differences Between iPad and iPod touch

Reviewers of the iPad have described it as a big screen version of the iPod touch. Other than the obvious differences in screen size, storage and price, there are other quite significant differences distinguishing the iPad and iPod touch.

Built-in Apps
There are interesting differences in the apps that are included with the iPad and iPod touch. iPad built-in apps got bigger for the larger screen, but fewer in number.

The iPad has a number of useful apps, that you'd recognize if you have an iPhone or iPod touch: Calendar, Contacts, Notes, Maps, Videos, YouTube, iTunes, App Store, Safari, Mail, Photos, and iPod.

The iPod touch has all the apps the iPad has, and more - many more! The iPod touch also has the Stock, Weather, Voice Memos, Clock and Calculator apps.

The omission of the Voice Memos app is especially puzzling, because the iPad has a built-in microphone, while the iPod touch microphone is a part of the Apple Earphones. The iPad doesn't have the Voice Control feature either. (Voice Control let's you control your iPod touch to play music by speaking to it.)

Of course, the iPad versions of the apps it has in common with the iPod touch were updated to take advantage of the larger screen area.

And, the features introduced because of these updates generally make the apps much more of a pleasure to use. For example: larger viewing and editing area, quick access to lists (of notes, email, albums, etc.) and in-app settings.

Settings
While the iPod touch has more apps, the iPad gained more settings.
 
On the iPad, you can set a wallpaper for the Lock Screen and a different one for the Home Screen.

General settings has a Battery Percentage switch that let's you show the percentage battery remaining beside the battery icon.

Mail has a new Default Mail Account setting. Email created by apps outside of the Mail app will be sent from the email account specified.

Calendar on the iPad let's you choose how far back to sync calendar events. And, there is a new Default Calendar setting. Events created outside of the Calendar app will default to the selected calendar.

iPad Safari has a bookmarks bar (similar to the desktop version). A new setting let's you always show the bookmarks bar.


The Transitions setting that's let's you choose from a number animated transitions slideshows was moved from Photos settings into the iPad Photos app itself.

Hardware
The iPad has a Screen rotation lock switch next to the volume controls on the side of the iPad.  When it's in the lock position, iPad apps will not rotate between landscape and portrait modes.

The speaker on the iPad can be surprisingly loud. But, unlike the iPod touch, the iPad has speaker ports (next to the iPod connector port).

Battery Life
Apple claims that the iPod touch has a video playback time of up to 6 hours and a music playback time of up to 30 hours. Apple says the iPad has up to 10 hours of surfing the web on Wi-Fi, watching video, or listening to music (9 hours for the Wi-Fi/GPS version). Our experience so far with the iPad is that the battery life is much better, lasting much longer than 10 hours.

Other Features
The iPod touch has Nike + iPod support and the iPad doesn't. (I guess an iPad is little too big to comfortably strap to a jogger - hee, hee.)

Picture Frame is a new feature specific to the iPad. It turns an iPad into an animated picture frame.

So, as you can see, there are more than a few important differences between the iPad and iPod touch, beyond it's size. 

Comments

[Latasha lee]

But you can get all of that stuff on the iTouch too You can read, listen to music, go on the internet, and It also comes with a camera and its not so big so i dont understand why people think the ipad is so great

[:)]

super agree!!!!!!!

[I eat cheese]

haha! imagine a jogger carrying a heavy ipad while running :)

[meli]

THE BIG difference is that an i pod touch is an i pod and a ''nike'' combined and an i pad is an i pod touch combined with a computer so they are both worth it but from my op
inion an i pad is A LITTLE BETTER