<P> As of September 2017, the iPod Touch is currently the only product in Apple's iPod product line, following the discontinuation of the iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle . Following the discontinuation, Apple revised the storage and pricing for the iPod Touch with 32 and 128 GB of storage . </P> <P> The iPod Touch runs Apple's Unix - based iOS operating system (called' iPhone OS' until 2010) and includes bundled software to browse the Internet, view maps, send and receive email, view media, and work with office documents, presentations, spreadsheets . Users type on a virtual keyboard displayed on the screen . Apple operates an online store, allowing users to buy and directly download music, videos and third - party software . From launch, the iPod Touch was described by journalists as an' iPhone without the phone', and each iPod Touch model to date has been introduced with the same release number of iOS as the contemporary iPhone model . </P> <P> Successive updates to iOS since the initial release in 2007 have released additional features . iPhone OS 2.0, released on July 11, 2008, introduced the App Store, which allowed third - party applications for the first time . iPhone OS 3.0, released on June 17, 2009, added features such as cut, copy, and paste, data tethering and push notification support . iOS 4.0, released on June 21, 2010, introduced iBooks, FaceTime, and multitasking . It dropped support for the first generation iPod Touch . </P> <P> In June 2011, iOS 5, the fifth major release of iOS software, was announced at Apple's WWDC 2011, which added notification, messaging and reminder features . Apple limited some features, most notably the voice control system Siri, to the iPhone . iOS 6, which was released on September 19, 2012 to the fourth and fifth generation iPod Touch models, contains 200 new features including Passbook, Facebook integration and Apple Maps . The fifth generation iPod Touch gained the ability to take panoramic photos, a feature shared with the iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 . </P>

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