If you ever need to know whether your application is running on an iPod touch or an iPhone, the answer is as close as this one line of code:

NSString *deviceType = [UIDevice currentDevice].model;

To get the model of the device as a localized string:

NSString *deviceType = [UIDevice currentDevice].modellocalizedModel;
NSLog(@"type: %@", deviceType);

One use could be to customize messages shown within your applications, for example:

float version = 1.1;
...
NSString *deviceType = [UIDevice currentDevice].model;
NSLog(@"Your %@ has version %2.1f of Today's Horoscope installed.", 
    deviceType, version);

Here’s the output from both of the code snippets is shown below:

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