iPOD Touch is an MP3 player ???

hi,

Had some various replies that iPOD touch is an iPOD mp3 player foremost. This is the reply that we get due to some basic features missing in some of the other apps.

All good, no worries, as it is a mp3 player after all.

Here is my question:

When in any other iPOD Touch App (e.g. MAIL, MAPS, Safari, etc.) and have the mp3 player playing a song how do I:

Change the Volume
Forward
Pause, etc.

At this stange it seems like I need to Navigate back to the Music player and the use the normal hot buttons.

Is there any sort of shortcut where we can do the normal mp3 player functions (volume, pause, next song, etc.) without navigating all the way back. It is a bit annoying and seems like the old iPOD was better here as the mp3 player operating buttons were always available.

(someone said that the iPhone has some buttons on the side to control the volume. So no need to navigate back to the music player to do this. However, am not sure how the other functions can be accessed without navigating all the way back).

Does my question make sense> ?

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