SillyDog701

[Antony]

Apple today announced the new iPod shuffle®, iPod nano® and iPod touch®.

The new redesigned iPod shuffle which features both clickable “ring” buttons and Apple’s innovative VoiceOver technology, enabling users to easily navigate their music and playlists without ever looking at their iPod shuffle. The new wearable iPod shuffle has an all-aluminum enclosure with a built-in clip and comes in five brilliant colors—silver, blue, green, orange and pink. With nearly 50 percent more battery life, the new iPod shuffle features over 15 hours of music playback on a single battery charge* and offers 2GB of storage.

The completely redesigned iPod nano featuring Apple’s Multi-Touch™ interface that lets users navigate their music collection by simply tapping or swiping a finger on the display. Nearly half the size and weight of the previous generation, the new iPod nano features a polished aluminum and glass enclosure with a built-in clip, making it instantly wearable. The new iPod nano features Genius Mixes, the ability to create and edit playlists, a built-in FM radio with live pause and up to 24 hours of music playback on a single battery charge

The new iPod touch®, packed with incredible new features including Apple’s stunning Retina™ display, FaceTime® video calling, HD video recording, Apple’s A4 chip, 3-axis gyro, iOS 4.1 and Game Center—all combined in the thinnest and lightest iPod touch ever. The new iPod touch features up to 40 hours of music playback and seven hours of video playback on a single battery charge.

Although not being highlighted today, iPod Classic is still available from Apple.

The fourth generation iPod shuffle, the new iPod nano, and the new iPod touch will be available next week for a suggested prices following...
$49 (US) for 2GB iPod shuffle in silver, blue, green, orange and pink;
$149 (US) for 8GB iPod nano;
$179 (US) for 16GB iPod nano;
(Both iPod nano models are available in silver, graphite, blue, green, orange and pink.)
$229 (US) for 8GB iPod touch;
$299 (US) for 32GB iPod touch;
$399 (US) for 64GB iPod touch.

Interested in any of those new iPods? Don't forget ordering your invisibleSHIELD!

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[DJGM]

It's good to see the latest iPod shuffle has gone back to using the circular click pad from the 2nd gen
version of the device. Having the controls inline on the earphone cord was a monumental mistake,
and I for one am glad they've gone back to a variation of the earlier design.


As for the latest iPod nano ... I'm not so keen on that. I was looking into getting a nano last month,
as with 8GB or 16GB of storage, built in video camera and MP4 video playback and FM radio tuner
alongside the primary function of a personal audio player, it was near perfect.

With the latest version, they appear to have taken one step forward by adding the tiny multi-touch
display, but several steps back by removing all video functionality. It's now a rather weird hybrid
of the iPod Touch and the Shuffle. What worse, regardless of it's now reduced functionality, it
costs more to buy than the old version, thanks to the frankly gratuitous tiny touch screen

In essence ... they've taken a once great product, and effectively ruined it, much like they did with
the previous version of the Shuffle ... but at least Apple eventually realised the mistake they made
with that, and have now put it right. I hope that long before next September, they come to
realise the similarly big mistake they've now made with the nano.

Also, it would appear that the video camera feature they've foolishly taken away from the nano,
has now been spruced up with support for recording HD720 videoclips (something the previous
version of the nano should've had anyway) and added it to the iPod Touch instead.

I hope I can get one of the previous nano's before all current stock runs out. I was hoping to get
one laser engraved from the online Apple Store, but unfortunately, that's no longer possible.

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[Antony]

Well, good to know that iPod touch now has the FaceTime feature. Making me wanting to buy one.

And I feel the current nano is just like the shuffle with a small screen.

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