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Wednesday September 5, 2007
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The iPod Touch lives. Lots of announcements today, which you can read in all of their chronologically correct glory in Tim Gideon's liveblogging post. On the hardware end, Steve and co. made official the rumored chubby nano and red Shuffle. Meanwhile, the old 5G iPod got an upgrade to a whopping 160GB (almost enough to hold my collection).
Hands down the biggest news of the day, however, was the introduction of the much longed for iPod Touch, a wifi-enabled iPod that is essentially an iPhone sans the whole pesky phone part. The Touch features a 3.5-inch touchscreen and is available in 8- and 16GB varities, at $299 and $399, respectively.
Expect it to ship in a few weeks.
[Image via Engadget].
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September 5, 2007 3:16 PM
Sad piece of hardware .... 16 GB max is really a joke. I was looking forward to this new ipod until I saw the capacity. The 160 GB version is appealing but they have neglected all the new features.
September 5, 2007 3:45 PM
Yes 16gb, is just a joke. Pathetic. The new Archos sh*ts on the ipod touch, The Archos is cheaper, supports more file formats, has a higher res screen, sd card interface and it has wifi & browser etc.
Oh dear, oh dear Apple, the touch is a dog!
September 5, 2007 4:16 PM
The Archos is also a brick, bigger, gets pretty sad battery life...sorry, I have beef with Archos. Maybe the G5 is a good product, but it's gotten pretty bad reviews.
Personally, I'm kind of impressed. The 16GB is probably a limitation based on internal flash drive. I wonder why they chose that, though. I'm thinking it's to keep cost down; but we'll see. I wanna get my hands on one before making a decision.
September 5, 2007 7:44 PM
Look I think this device will do well, Im in australia and the Iphone is not avaliable here (only to those few who have hacked it) and I realy wanted a device that employed these key features.
Yes it has a smaller hard drive but 90% of my time is spend listening to a favourite album/playlist so I can deal with it. I love the price and in classic apple style they went that extra mile and added WIFI AWESOME.
I realy hope that developers come up with some Ipod Touch apps soon after its release because I would love to use it like a PDA. Amazing apple style and class combined with the convience of a PDA. I have had several PDA's (both palm and PPC) but its such a hassle to carry it around. But I always carry my Ipod so this would be great.
GREAT JOB STEVE (pardon the pun)
September 5, 2007 11:34 PM
Yes, I was also disappointed about the capacity. I heard before that it would be 160gb and 240gb. I only have a 4gb iPod Nano for now though. But it is a pretty good deal! 4g-8g iPod Nanos cost like 200-400 dollars (depending on the generation and year you bought it)!
September 8, 2007 11:09 AM
People... how many songs do you really need to carry around at one time? I dont know about you, but i have a laptop, so i can constantly remove and add songs. think of how many songs you have on your ipod and dont listen too.. and plus there is a new app out called shrinkmytunes...