New Design For Every iPod Nano, iPod Touch, iPod Shuffle, Available Next Week
September 1st, 2010
With 275 million iPods sold, Jobs announced a major upgrade to each and every single iPod. Here’s the rundown:
New iPod Shuffle, is smaller than second gen, a return to form factor, with buttons, voiceover and playlists. It still has a clip, easy to use buttons, playlists, genius mixes, and VoiceOver. It comes in 5 colors, will have a 15 hour battery life, and will go for $49.
The new iPod Nano is the much-rumored touch-based tiny screened thing we’ve seen all over the place. Tiny, has a clip, has a multitouch interface, almost half as small and half as light as the earlier model. 24 hour battery life, built in FM radio, clock, photos. It does look like a tiny, tiny, tiny iPod Touch. Jobs showed re-arranging icons on the home screen “like other iOS devices”, so that’s a confirmation it’s on iOS. You can also flip the screen if you clip it on upside down, by rotating two fingers. It’ll be available in seven colors, including a Project: Red version with some proceeds going to charity. It’ll go for $149 for 4GB $179 for 8GB.
The new iPod Touch is thinner, much like the rumored version, with a slight change to the curve. It’ll have a retina display, 326 ppi like the iPhone 4. It’ll also have the A4 chip, gyroscope, front facing camera and FaceTime, rear camera with HD recording. Just as predicted. It’s an iPhone 4, but without the contract. FaceTime will happily go between iPhone and iPod Touch.
The iPod Touch is apparently the number 1 portable game player in the world, outselling Nintendo and Sony’s game players combined. 8GB model will go for $229, 32 for $299, and 64 for $399.
All the new iPods are available for pre-order today, shipping next week. Jobs then showed ads for the new iPods.
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