It has the same touch screen, runs on a similar operating system, is Wi-Fi like iPhone, and even has an accelerometer like an iPhone.
The latest iPod Touch is enough to confuse even iPhone users having many similarities with iPhone. But there are still a lot of differences between an iPhone and an iPod that will be discussed in this article, to enable a new buyer to choose a device that suits his requirements in a better manner. There are many who remain confused because of this blurring of distinctions and talk about these two outstanding gadgets as being similar (well, they almost are). Whereas, iPhones (we are currently awaiting the release of the 5th generation iPhone 5 in September) are smartphones that have become a status symbol for upwardly mobile executives around the world, iPod was launched as a media player by Apple (it still is) but down many generations (we now have iPod Touch), we have come up to a gadget that is hard to define and looks almost like an iPhone. IPod and iPhone are devices from Apple that have caught the imagination of the people and serve different purposes.