Some users have reported that they are unable to install the $20 iPod Touch “January Software Upgrade”, which is supposed to place Mail, Google Maps, Notes, Weather and Stocks applications on the Touch. In most cases, users are able to upgrade successfully to iPod Touch firmware 1.1.3 (required to get the new apps), then click […]

Apple has launched a repository of Web-based “apps” for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The site offers categorized listings, along with screenshots and descriptions of iPhone/iPod touch-optimized sites including games, productivity, social networking, sports, travel, utilities and more.

A statement on the site reads:

“Flick through lists of news articles on Digg. Play games like Sudoku and […]

In Knowledge Base article #306651, Apple acknowledges a widely reported issue where the iPod touch screen exhibits the following symptoms (in Apple’s words):

Dark or black spots
Video is very dark and looks like a negative image
Dark colors look like film negative
Black areas appear oversaturated to the point of being reflective
Black areas appear to shimmer
Products affected

Apple says […]

We’ve recommended the deletion and subsequent re-installation of the Apple Mobile Device components under Mac OS X and resetting the service under Windows for a variety of iPhone issues, including sync problems, problems recognizing the device, problems restoring, and more.

Apple has now echoed this advice in a Knowledge Base document (#306637) specifically for the issue […]

Apple has released iTunes 7.4.3 for Windows, without an accompanying Mac OS X version. The update “addresses issues with the initial setup of the iPod touch on some international versions of Windows.” The new release is available as a 49MB download.Feedback? info@iphoneatlas.com.

In addition to the release of iPhone software/firmware version 1.1.1, Apple has also updated the iPod touch software to version 1.1.1. The update is applied just like the iPhone update — connect iPod touch to your, select iPod touch in the source list and click the Summary tab, then click “Check for Update.”

The iPod touch […]

Though the iPhone has had the ability to use Gmail accounts in its native email client since the device’s inception, the Web-based interface for GMail remained awakward. Making heavy use of JavaScript (with which the iPhone is still a poor performer), the GMail interface was slow to render, difficult to navigate, and sometimes crashed the […]

A few miscellaneous iPod touch notes:

The screen is different in many ways from the iPhone. It seems somewhat brighter, but also appears to lack the level of contrast.
As previously noted, there is no visible internal speaker on the iPod touch. However, there is actually a small internal speaker that outputs tap noises for the […]

The version of Safari used by the iPod touch is ostensibly the same as the version used by the iPhone, but carries a slightly different user agent string.

iPod Touch user agent string Mozila/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Geckto) Version/3.0 Mobile/3A101a Safari/419.3
iPhone user agent string Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU […]

The iPod Touch will sport keyboard functionality that is far more robust than the iPhone’s (in its current form) according to an 85-page features guide recently published by Apple.

The iPod touch provides keyboards in 14 different languages, and supports the following keyboard formats:

QWERTY
QWERTZ
AZERTY
QZERTY
Japanese IME

In addition, the iPod touch provides the ability to make two […]