TAG | Apple seeds new iPods, offers surprises – and disappointments |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Wednesday, 10 September 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 4 Well, new iPods were the big expectation, along with new OS 2.1 software for the iPod Touch and the iPhone/iPhone 3G, and Jobs has delivered. Featured Whitepaper
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But the iPod nano comes an accelerometer, allowing you to hold the nano horizontally to watch widescreen videos and to access cover flow. When in Shuffle mode, you can also now “shake” the player to go to the next song. It also features the “Genius” software to deliver recommendations for similar songs to the one you’re listening to, if desired. Featuring a curved “oval” design and curved screen, the new nano is billed as the “thinnest” ever, and comes in 9 cool colours – silver, black, red, blue, violet/purple, orange, yellow, green and pink, as well as two capacities – 8GB and 16GB. Prices are US $149/$199 and AUD $199/$279, respectively, and you get 24 hours of battery for audio and 4 hours for video. Apple are also launching two new types of headset, sold separately to the standard one that comes in the box. The first sells for US $29, and has a volume control, can be clicked to play and pause, double clicked to move to the next track, and triple clicked to go back one track. It also has a built-in microphone so you can make voice recordings! The second sells for US $79 and are “in-ear” noise isolating headphones. They have a driver and a tweeter, and come with 3 different sized attachments for different sized ear holes. No Australian prices are available for either pair of headphones as I write this article, although since that time I've discovered that the US $29 headset will retail for AUD $48, while the new in-ear headphones will retail for AUD $109. Damn our falling dollar compared with US currency! The next new iPod is the iPod Classic. Doing away with the “thin” 80GB model and the “thick” 160GB model, the new Classic only comes in a “thin” 120GB model, priced at US $249 or AUD $339, and also has the “Genius” feature. Apple promises 36 hours of audio and 6 hours of video. Whether the new Classic will work with those nifty new remote control headphones isn’t clear but you’d think they would – more on that when we can confirm it. Apple have also promised that environmental concerns are at the top of their list with the iPods, with Jobs saying they’re the most recyclable iPods ever. So, what about the iPod Touch?! Please read on to page 3. |
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