Should I get the 2nd or 3rd get Ipod Touch?

well wat i think you should get the third for these reasons

1. get a 32 gig more storage for your music and you can put movies as well.

2. you know how the second gen has the chrome back well i think the new third gen has a plastic back like the iphone very stylish.

3. you get more instead of have just your music you get to use the internet play games ect.(more below)

4. and you get apps for anything about 75,000

5. cheaper than second gen

Second gen well its ok its kinda last year still good you can update it to the things below

well spend your money wisely

here is some things they updated.

When you get the new iPhone 3.1 Software Update for iPod touch, you get new features that make watching video, playing games, and listening to music even more fun.

Download the Software Update.

Only $4.95.

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Genius Mixes

Whenever you sync to iTunes, the Genius feature studies your library and finds songs that go great together, then automatically creates 12 new Genius Mixes.

Genius Recommendations for Apps

With thousands of apps in the App Store, how do you find cool new ones? Let Genius help. It looks at the apps you’ve purchased and recommends others you might like.

Peer-to-Peer Gaming

The newest games will make it easy to play head-to-head with a friend — whether your friend is sitting next to you or across the country.1

Buy Movies, TV Shows, and

Audiobooks via Wi-Fi

Download movies, TV shows, music videos, and audiobooks over Wi-Fi from the iTunes Store on iPod touch.

Spotlight Search

Find what you’re looking for across your iPod touch, all from one place. Spotlight searches all your contacts, email, calendars, and notes, as well as all your music and video.

Stereo Bluetooth

Enjoy music and other audio wirelessly. Pair your iPod touch with compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones.2

The iPod touch Software Update also includes these features.

Shake to Shuffle

Just give your iPod touch a shake, and it shuffles to a different song in your music library. You’ll always be surprised by what you hear.

New Languages

Enjoy support for up to 34 languages and more than 40 keyboard layouts.

Push Notifications

Apps receive information — and let you know it’s there — even when they’re not running.

Parental Controls

Decide what music, videos, and apps your kids can access on iPod touch.

Automatic Wi-Fi Login

Log in to a Wi-Fi hotspot and iPod touch conveniently remembers your user name and password the next time you connect.

iTunes Store Account Creation

Create one or more iTunes Store accounts directly from your iPod touch.

Cut, Copy & Paste

Quickly and easily cut, copy, and paste text from application to application. Select blocks of web text with a tap. Copy and paste images from the web, too.

Landscape Keyboard

Want more room to type? Rotate iPod touch to landscape to use a larger keyboard in Mail, Notes, and Safari.

The 2nd generation has worse processors, graphics units and battery. For $188, I would get that. It's pretty cheap, well $11 but still, it's cheaper. Basically, the 3rd generation has the internal components (like processor and RAM) of the iPhone 3GS, in which the 'S' is for Speed. so the 3rd gen is faster than the 2nd gen. RAM (random access memory) is the internal memory that any computing (not sure of the right word here) can access to use up to do tasks at any point in time, in any order, hence the random. It is a piece of data that is quicker to access than a DVD or the hard disk for example.

get the archos 5 it is the ipod touch and more and 60 gb for $200 a price you cant beat best mobile browser ever works better than my laptop u can get ipod touch apps on it just look at instructables.com it has flash support and you just drag and drop files which is way better on instructables.com there is a hack to get ipod touch apps on the archos 5 has up to 250 gb and you just drag and drop files the best mobile browser ever and pocketable it has a flashplayer which is quite great and can get flash apps and basiccly any flash game there is that doesnt use a keyboard like crush the castle

dont get the archos. get the ipod touch 3rd gen. it is the same as the 2nd gen but it is cheaper, also the only change they made to it is that it is faster to load things and to acces the internet. but I mean get the real thing, go with the ipod touch 3g. if you want to, u should maybe wait until they come out with the ipod touch that has the camera on it, it was supposed to come out on september 8th, but they said if it doesn't it will come out around christmas. but idk. they are probably just saying that like they always do.