Apple iPod touch 16 GB (2nd Generation) | 
| Brand: Apple
Category: CE
List Price: $299.99
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Rating:  140 reviews
Sales Rank: 9
Media: Electronics
Batteries Included: No
Display Size: 3.5
Size: 16 GB
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 2.4 x 0.3 x 4.1
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: MB531LL/A
Model: MB531LL/A
UPC: 885909232789
EAN: 0085909232783
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| Features:
| • | This player is the iPod touch, not the Apple iPhone | | • | 16 GB capacity for 3,500 songs, 10,000 photos, or 20 hours of video | | • | Up to 36 hours of music playback or 6 hours of video playback when fully charged | | • | 3.5-inch widescreen multi-touch display with 480-by-320-pixel resolution | | • | Supported audio formats: AAC, Protected AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible, Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV; supported video formats: H.264, MPEG-4; supported image file types: JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, PSD (Mac only), and PNG |
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Amazon.com Product Description--Posted September 9, 2008
The iPod touch has always been an amazing iPod. And with its groundbreaking technologies--including a Multi-Touch screen, the accelerometer, and 3D graphics--and access to hundreds of games, iPod touch puts an amazing gaming experience in the palm of your hand. It comes in 8 GB, 16 GB, and 32 GB models with new volume controls and a built-in speaker. Play hours of music. Create a Genius Playlist of songs that go great together. Watch a movie. Surf the web. View rich HTML email. Find your location and get directions with Google Maps. Browse YouTube videos. And shop the App Store for games and applications./p table width="300" cellpadding="10" align="left" tr td align="center"img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page/B001FA1NZK-1-th.jpg" border="0" psmallbiMillions of songs, thousands of videos, hundreds of games. Click to enlarge./i/b/small /td /tr /table brh3bMusic/b/h3 Music on iPod touch not only sounds amazing, it looks amazing, too. pbTouch Your Music/bbr Remember what it felt like to flip through your CD or record collection? Cover Flow brings that feeling back. Just turn iPod touch on its side and flick through your music to find the album you want to hear. Tap the cover to flip it over and display a track list. Tap again to start the music. Even view the lyrics while you're listening. pbA Musical Genius/bbr Say you're listening to a song you really like and want to hear other tracks that go great with it. The new Genius feature finds the songs in your library that go great together and makes a Genius Playlist for you. You can listen to the playlist right away, save it for later, or even refresh it and give it another go. Count on Genius to create a mix you wouldn't have thought of yourself. pbFill It Up/bbr Fill up your iPod touch with audio and video from your iTunes library. All you have to do is choose the playlists, videos, and other content you want to sync, and iTunes does the rest. table width="300" cellpadding="10" align="right" tr td align="center"img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page/B001FA1NZK-2.jpg" border="0" psmallbiThe iPod touch feels even better in your hand, thanks to the stunningly thin, contoured enclosure made of polished stainless steel./i/b/small /td /tr tr td align="center"img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page/B001FA1NZK-3-th.jpg" border="0" psmallbiJust turn iPod touch on its side and flick through your music to find the album you want to hear. Click to enlarge./i/b/small /td /tr tr td align="center"img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page/B001FA1NZK-4.jpg" border="0" psmallbiCarry hours of video with you, and watch it on a crisp, clear 3.5-inch widescreen color display./i/b/small /td /tr /table brbrh3bMovies and TV Shows/b/h3 Movies and TV shows have never looked this good on a portable device. pbEverything's a Must-see/bbr Carry hours of video with you, and watch it on a crisp, clear 3.5-inch widescreen color display. Need ideas? From Hollywood blockbusters to independent favorites, there's something for everyone at the iTunes Store. Download and watch movies with a few clicks. Prefer TV shows? Buy a single episode or an entire season's worth all at once. pbIn Control/bbr While watching your video, tap the display to bring up the onscreen controls. You can play/pause, view by chapter, and adjust the volume. You also can use the new volume controls on the left side of iPod touch. Want to switch between widescreen and full screen? Simply tap the display twice. pbSync and Go/bbr Need some entertainment for your next flight or road trip? With iTunes on your Mac or PC, you can sit at your computer and choose the movies and TV shows you want to sync to your iPod touch. brbrh3bGames/b/h3 With its groundbreaking technologies, iPod touch puts an amazing gaming experience in the palm of your hand. pbGet in the Game/bbr Developers all over the world are creating exciting games unlike anything you've ever seen on an iPod or mobile device. Many games come alive with stunning 3D graphics and immerse you in the action with the advanced technologies in iPod touch. There's even a built-in speaker, so you can hear all the action. pbFingertip Control/bbr Many games for iPod touch use Multi-Touch to give you precise, fingertip control over game elements. Use your finger to drag your pieces around the board in chess or dice games. Or pinch to enlarge or shrink your view, rotate your character left or right, or just tap to make a selection. pbTilt, Turn, and Go/bbr The built-in accelerometer actually responds to your movements, so you can tilt and turn your iPod touch to control the action. It's perfect for racing games--where your entire iPod touch acts as a steering wheel--and for tap-and-tilt games like Super Monkey Ball, in which your character rolls to your movements. pbThe App Store/bbr Even if games aren't your thing, there's an iPod touch application for you. Thousands of applications in almost every category--entertainment, social networking, sports, photography, reference, and travel--are a tap away at the App Store. table width="300" cellpadding="20" align="left" tr td align="center"img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page/B001FA1NZK-5-th.jpg" border="0" psmallbiDevelopers all over the world are creating exciting games unlike anything you've ever seen on an iPod or mobile device. Click to enlarge./i/b/small /td /tr tr td align="center"img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page/B001FA1NZK-6.jpg" border="0" psmallbiThe built-in wireless capability in iPod touch gives you access to the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, where you can choose from millions of songs with a tap./i/b/small /td /tr tr td align="center"img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page/B001FA1NZK-7.jpg" border="0" psmallbiiPod touch features Safari, the most advanced web browser ever on a portable device./i/b/small /td /tr /table brbrh3biTunes Wi-Fi Music Store/b/h3 Discover new music anywhere. pbBuy on the Fly/bbr The built-in wireless capability in iPod touch gives you access to the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, where you can choose from millions of songs with a tap. Browse New Releases, What's Hot, and Genres. Take a look at Top Songs and Top Albums. Or find exactly what you're looking for with a quick search. Play a 30-second preview of any song, then tap once to buy it. Your music starts downloading instantly, and you can keep tabs on its progress by tapping the Downloads button. pbSync it Back/bbr When you connect iPod touch to your computer, the music you bought on-the-go syncs to your iTunes library. If you've partially downloaded a song to iPod touch, your computer completes the download automatically. pbiPod touch at Starbucks/bbr If you have an iPod touch, an iPhone, or a computer with the latest version of iTunes, you get free Wi-Fi access to the iTunes Store and to Starbucks' Now Playing content. Stroll into a participating Starbucks, and you're connected automatically. brbrh3bHome Screen/b/h3 Get instant access to whatever you need on your iPod touch. pbCustomize Your Home Screen/bbr Arrange the icons on your Home screen any way you want. Even move them to another Home screen. Create up to nine Home screens for quick access to the games and applications you download from the App Store and to your Safari Web Clips. pbGo Home/bbr No matter where you are on iPod touch, you can press the Home button to return to the Home screen. You can go back to what you were doing at any time. pbAdd Apps, Web Clips, and More/bbr Whenever you download an application from the App Store, a new icon appears on your Home screen. And if you check the same websites every day, just create Web Clips and you can access the sites directly from your Home screen with a single tap. Not happy with how they're organized? Reorder them any way you want by dragging them around the screen. brbrh3bSafari/b/h3 iPod touch features Safari, the most advanced web browser ever on a portable device. pbBrowse Anywhere/bbr The iPod touch is the only iPod with 802.11b/g wireless access to the web. Whenever you're connected via Wi-Fi, you can access your favorite websites to read news, check scores, pay bills, and go shopping. pbSearch and Find/bbr iPod touch syncs your bookmarks from your PC or Mac, so you can access favorite sites quickly. It has Google and Yahoo! search built in, so it's easy to find what you're looking for on the web. pbZoom with a View/bbr Get a closer look at any web page by zooming in and out with a tap or a pinch of the Multi-Touch display. View websites in portrait or landscape. Rotate iPod touch 90 degrees and the website rotates, too. pbClip it./bbr If you check a website frequently--a favorite newspaper, blog, or sports site--why not create a Home screen icon for it? Make Web Clips with Safari, and your favorite sites are always just a tap away. table width="300" cellpadding="10" align="right" tr td align="center"img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page/B001FA1NZK-8.jpg" border="0" psmallbiEmail on iPod touch looks and works just like email on your computer. /i/b/small /td /tr tr td align="center"img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page/B001FA1NZK-9.jpg" border="0" psmallbiWhen you're connected via Wi-Fi, you can get directions, find local businesses, and check traffic with Maps./i/b/small /td /tr /table brbrh3bMail/b/h3 Email on iPod touch looks and works just like email on your computer. pbSee it All/bbr iPod touch supports rich HTML email, so images and photos appear alongside text. And you see email attachments in their original formats, not stripped-down versions. Rotate, zoom, and pan in more than a dozen standard file and image formats, including PDF; Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; and iWork. pbAccess it All/bbr Access your email from popular providers--including MobileMe, Microsoft Exchange, Yahoo! Mail, Google Gmail, and AOL--and most industry-standard IMAP and POP mail systems. pbSend Fast/bbr iPod touch recognizes email addresses in different applications. If you run across an email address on a web page or a map listing, for example, just tap it; iPod touch opens a new message and addresses it for you. pbType Smart/bbr With its built-in dictionary, the intelligent iPod touch keyboard predicts and suggests words as you type, making it fast and easy to write email. brbrh3bMaps/b/h3 When you're connected via Wi-Fi, you can get directions, find local businesses, and check traffic. pbFind Yourself/bbr iPod touch finds your location using known Wi-Fi hotspots. It also finds points of interest by keyword: Search for "coffee" and iPod touch shows you every cafe nearby. pbGet Directions/bbr Just type in an address and get directions from wherever you are. View a list of turn-by-turn directions, or see a highlighted map route. You also can mark specific locations and find the best route between them. pbEnjoy the View/bbr Just like Google Maps on your computer, Maps on iPod touch lets you switch between views of Google map data, satellite images, and a hybrid of both. Multi-Touch makes the difference. Tap to zoom, pan, and change your view on the move. pbSee Traffic/bbr Maps on iPod touch shows you live traffic information, indicating traffic speed along your route in easy-to-read green, red, and yellow highlights. table width="300" cellpadding="20" align="left" tr td align="center"img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page/B001FA1NZK-10.jpg" border="0" psmallbiLove to watch the latest YouTube videos? iPod touch gives you all the fun of the web's best videos--pocket-size. /i/b/small /td /tr tr td align="center"img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page/B001FA1NZK-11.jpg" border="0" psmallbiiPod touch uses iTunes to sync photos you have in iPhoto on a Mac or Adobe Photoshop Elements and Adobe Photoshop Album on a PC./i/b/small /td /tr tr td align="center"img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page/B001FA1NZK-12.jpg" border="0" psmallbiKeep your schedule at your fingertips with iPod touch./i/b/small /td /tr tr td align="center"img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page/B001FA1NZK-13.jpg" border="0" psmallbiBuild your contacts list on your Mac with Address Book or on your PC with Microsoft Outlook, then sync everything to your iPod touch using iTunes./i/b/small /td /tr /table brbrh3bYouTube/b/h3 Love to watch the latest YouTube videos? iPod touch gives you all the fun of the web's best videos--pocket-size. pbShare from Anywhere/bbr Email your favorite videos to your favorite people. Tap "Share" on any YouTube video detail page, and iPod touch creates an email with the video link already in it. pbWatch What You Want/bbr Explore Featured, Most Viewed, Most Recent, and Top Rated videos. Or search for the video you want with a keyword search. Once you find what you're looking for, bookmark it to watch later. brbrh3bPhotos/b/h3 Carry up to 25,000 of your favorite photos everywhere. pbShare Photos/bbr Show thousands of photos from the palm of your hand. Flick to scroll through thumbnails. Tap to view full screen. Rotate to see a photo in landscape. Pinch to zoom in or out. Play slideshows, complete with music and transitions. Email a photo to a friend, set it as your wallpaper, or share it in a MobileMe Gallery. pbSave Photos/bbr If you receive a great image in an email, save it to your photo library on iPod touch. Once there, it acts just like any other photo. You can set it as your wallpaper, share it on the web, or pass it on. pbSync Photos/bbr iPod touch uses iTunes to sync photos you have in iPhoto on a Mac or Adobe Photoshop Elements and Adobe Photoshop Album on a PC. Just choose which photos or albums to sync to your iPod touch, then you can look at them--and share them--anywhere you go. brbrh3bCalendar/b/h3 With iPod touch, it's easy to make plans and stay on schedule. pbAdd Events/bbr Keep your schedule at your fingertips with iPod touch. Add events to your calendar. Set a custom alert. Write a note or two. Manage multiple color-coded calendars. And do it all with just a few taps. pbStay in Sync/bbr Connect iPod touch to your computer, and the events that you've created on-the-go automatically sync to Microsoft Outlook on a PC or iCal on a Mac. And all the events you've added on your computer sync to iPod touch. pbThree Ways to View/bbr iPod touch gives you three ways to view your calendars. List view shows you all your appointments in the coming days as a comprehensive list, which you can scroll up and down. Day view displays one day's worth of appointments visually. And Month view offers an at-a-glance look at an entire month. brbrh3bContacts/b/h3 Put names, email addresses, phone numbers, and more at your fingertips. pbMake Contact/bbr Build your contacts list on your Mac with Address Book or on your PC with Microsoft Outlook, then sync everything to your iPod touch using iTunes. You also can add contact information directly to your iPod touch from maps, web pages, and email. Next time you sync, your computer is updated, too. pbSearch Contacts/bbr If you have a lot of contacts, a quick search shows you a list of matching names. Or you can scroll up and down your entire list to find the right contact. Want to send them an email? Just tap an email address and the Mail application opens automatically. pbOrganized by Groups/bbr If you keep your contacts organized into groups--such as co-workers, friends, family, and so on--iPod touch will, too. And iPod touch can hold more than just names, email addresses, and phone numbers. You also can track birthdays, websites, nicknames, and notes. brbrh3bStocks, Weather, and Notes/b/h3 Stay on top of it all. pbCheck Stocks/bbr Stocks on iPod touch shows you performance information for any stock you choose. When you want more details about a stock's performance, tap the Y! for instant access to Yahoo! Finance. pbGet Weather/bbr Check worldwide weather at home or away. Add the cities you want, then flick back and forth to get six-day forecasts for each. Tap the Y! to open a Yahoo! city guide that shows you what's happening, rain or shine. pbTake Notes/bbr Forget the pen and paper. Use Notes on iPod touch to write yourself a quick note and keep important information on hand. There's even a built-in email function that lets you send notes to yourself or others. brbrh3bCalculator/b/h3 Calculator on iPod touch helps you settle the restaurant bill or keep track of your budget. pbCalculate Simply/bbr When you tap the Calculator icon, iPod touch shows you a simple application with addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and memory functions. Use it just as you would a pocket calculator. pbCalculate Scientifically/bbr Your simple calculator doubles as a sophisticated scientific calculator. Just rotate it to landscape to access dozens of functions for solving complex science and math problems. table width="300" cellpadding="20" align="right" tr td align="center"img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page/B001FA1NZK-14.jpg" border="0" psmallbiiPod touch now includes built-in Nike + iPod support./i/b/small /td /tr /table brbrh3bNike + iPod/b/h3 pbTune Your Run/bbr iPod touch now includes built-in Nike + iPod support. Just slip the Nike + iPod Sensor (available separately) into your Nike+ shoe and start your run. The sensor communicates wirelessly with your iPod touch, tracking your time, distance, and calories burned. It even gives you voice feedback on your progress. pbTune Your Cardio Workout/bbr This feature also works with new cardio equipment available in many fitness centers. Just look for treadmills, ellipticals, stair steppers, and stationary bikes that are Nike + iPod compatible. pbSync with Nikeplus.com/bbr When you get back to your computer, sync your iPod touch via iTunes and transfer your exercise data to nikeplus.com, where you can track your workouts, set goals, and challenge friends. brbrh3bMulti-Touch/b/h3 iPod touch features the same revolutionary interface as iPhone. pbGlide, Flick, Pinch/bbr Built to take full advantage of the large 3.5-inch display, the Multi-Touch touchscreen interface lets you control everything using only your fingers. So you can glide through albums with Cover Flow, flick through photos and enlarge them with a pinch, zoom in and out on a section of a web page, and control game elements precisely. pbHow it Works/bbr The Multi-Touch display layers a protective shield over a capacitive panel that senses your touch using electrical fields. It then transmits that information to the LCD screen below it. iPod touch software enables the flick, tap, and pinch. pbType with the Touchscreen Keyboard/bbr iPod touch features an intelligent touchscreen keyboard perfect for browsing the web in Safari, getting directions on a map, searching for videos on YouTube, finding music on the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, or adding new contacts. It analyzes keystrokes to suggest words as you type and correct spelling errors automatically. And because it's software based, it changes its keys to support typing in multiple languages. table width="300" cellpadding="20" align="left" tr td align="center"img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page/B001FA1NZK-15.jpg" border="0" psmallbiiPod touch locates nearby wireless hotspots, including protected networks./i/b/small /td /tr /table brbrh3bAccelerometer/b/h3 iPod touch responds to motion using a built-in accelerometer. pbResponds to Movement/bbr iPod touch detects when you rotate it from portrait to landscape, then automatically changes the contents of the display. So you immediately see the entire width of a web page, view a photo in its proper aspect ratio, or control a game using only your movements. pbHow it Works/bbr The accelerometer inside iPod touch uses three elements: a silicon mass, a set of silicon springs, and an electrical current. The silicon springs measure the position of the silicon mass using the electrical current. Rotating iPod touch causes a fluctuation in the electrical current passing through the silicon springs. The accelerometer registers these fluctuations and tells iPod touch to adjust the display accordingly. pbPerfect for Gaming/bbr Accelerometer technology really shines when you play games because it immerses you in the action. It's perfect for racing games--where your entire iPod touch acts as a steering wheel--and for tap-and-tilt games like Super Monkey Ball, in which your character responds to your every movement. brbrh3bWireless/b/h3 Connect iPod touch to the Internet anywhere there's a wireless network. pbConnect Automatically/bbr iPod touch locates nearby wireless hotspots, including protected networks. If you've never used a particular network, it asks you to enter a password the first time, and it remembers the password from then on. So the next time you're within range, it connects automatically. pbSurf's Up/bbr Now you can send email from a coffee shop. Surf the web at the airport. Shop for games from your couch. Browse, buy, and download music from the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store at select Starbucks locations or other wireless hotspots in your area. pbWhat's in the Box/bbr iPod touch 16 GB, earphones, USB 2.0 cable, dock adapter, polishing cloth, quick start guide
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| Customer Reviews: Read 135 more reviews...
 Great November 19, 2008
J. Baez
The itouch second gen is great my first time buying an ipod, and finally got one that didn't disappoint.
 Best PDA so far November 19, 2008
J. S. Weaver (Bowling Green, OH USA)
The iPod touch has it all! With the ability to download myriad programs on the fly or from iTunes, the iPod touch really pushes the envelope. I have owned a number of PDAs over the years and the iPod touch has been the best so far. Other PDAs have lacked the amazing user interface that this device boasts. The accelerometer is one of the great new additions to interacting with PDAs. The keyboard, however, is still lacking. Trying to type with my thumbs, like I do with my cell phone, is an impossible task. To date, I have only found a program that allows the widescreen keyboard access for email. Overall, apple has really outdone all of the other PDA companies and it is no surprise that these devices are selling so well. If you are looking to buy one, I would certainly recommend it.
 Devil's Advocate: Pls. Read This Before Buying November 19, 2008
I. Phoenix (California)
Why go all through all the trouble of purchasing this device when all its features are found on iPhone 3G? The trouble with iPod touch is that some applications only work with iPhone 3G. And being only 8, 16, or 32 gigabytes, it is not worth the price. There have been some alleged buzz on the blogosphere that Ipod touch audio quality is poor. True! I compared my classic iPod and the touch by importing the same song from a cd using the highest maximum rate of data transfer: 320 kbps and setting it to AAC (to avoid lossing too much data from the cd)and setting both iPods' EQ setting to "none". Guess what? The song still sounded "brassy" or "metal-like" on the touch. But the same song with the same data size sounded more cd-like on the classic. Try this yourself. I cannot understand this phenomenon. Perhaps, the touch still compresses data as it is synced from iTunes and the classic one preserves the size of the file. br /One more point I want to share is that the 2nd generation touch are not compatible with most dock systems. I bought a Bose portable docking system because it said on its advertisement that it is compatible with iPod touch. When the product arrived, I was infuriated to find out that it only works with the first-generation touch. My touch is 2nd-gen. Upon inquiry from stores and customers service hotlines, I found out that even Altec Lansing, etc are not compatible with the 2nd-gen touch. Maybe, that is why Bose has recently upgraded their non-portable docking system to accomodate this useless junk. But having tried docking my touch to a Bose non-portable docking system II in a near-by Apple Store (yes, they sell Bose docking system for your information), I could still hear a persistent and extremely annoying popping sound every 2 minutes on the speakers. The Apple Store personnel could not come up with an explanation! br /Imagine! br /Therefore, just buy a large-memory iPod classic 120G ($219.00) or an iPhone ($199).
iPod Touch: Great product November 19, 2008
J. Davlantes (Chicago)
My laptop died. I use it when I travel, to get email, surf the net, etc. Also carry my iPod classic, for tunes on the road. Well, the Touch does it all. Get my email, surf the net, listen to music AND watch movies ! A great device that delivers all it promises. No, you can't type word docs or do Excel spreadsheets, but I really never used my laptop on the road for that anyway. The App store is great; plenty to download, including lots of free apps. Wish the battery life was a little better when in Wi-Fi mode, but you can shut it off to conserve bat life. The Touch runs off Wi-Fi networks, not cell networks. The world is going Wi-Fi, so finding a free Wi-Fi hot spot is as easy as finding a Panera Bread or Starbucks. (Or any of the hotels I stay at when I travel). The form factor is very thin; fits in a tight pocket or jacket. All the features of the iPhone, without the monthly cell fees. If you don't need another cell phone (I didn't...) but want all the functionality of the iPhone, go with the iTouch. Get the 32gig model.
After 1 month November 19, 2008
Jose E Martinez (CCS VE)
After 1 month since i bought my iPod Touch 32Gb 2nd Generation, i'm really happy. It is working very well, the battery lasts as long as advertised and sound quality is excellent. The volume control buttons are a good improvement vs the 1st Generation. The Apps work very well on it. br /As with my iPod Video 30Gb 5.5 Gen, i bought a silicone case to put 'em ia soon as i opened the package because is the best way to keep it's resale value. br /If you want to skip and/or change tracks in the blind way (I.E. while in Metro, bus, street, etc) i suggest you not to buy this. br /32 Gb is enough for me today, maybe in a couple years i will liik for more capacity, but now is ok for me. 14Gb of music, a couple of movies, more than 2000 photos, a lot of video podcasts, an about 60 apps, and still 12 Gb free. br / br /Conclusion: i recommend it.
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