Apple Unveils New iPods: Touch And Nano

iPod Touch Is Inspired By The iPhone; Updated iPod Nano Has Video Screen, Storage For Music And Photos

(CBS/AP)  Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs on Wednesday unveiled a new version of the company's popular iPod media player that's based on the iPhone, featuring wireless Internet access and a Web browser but not cell phone capability.

Dubbed iPod Touch, the 8-millimeter-thick device can store photos, music, videos and other digital data. It features the same 3.5-inch, touch-screen display as the iPhone, on which light finger touches allow the user to scroll through menus and use two fingers to resize pictures.

The iPod Touch has a new partnership with Starbucks to buy songs while waiting for your Frappuccino, reports CBS News Science & Technology correspondent Daniel Sieberg.

The iPod Touch also has built-in wireless Internet access and the Safari Web browser, including Google and Yahoo search engines and easy access to YouTube videos. The iPhone, which runs on the AT&T cellular network, also includes Wi-Fi.

An 8-gigabyte version will cost $299. A 16-gigabyte version will cost $399. It will be shipped worldwide starting later this month.

"It's one of the seven wonders of the world, it's just incredible," Jobs told employees and journalists gathered at a special media event near downtown San Francisco.

Jobs also unveiled other new iPod models, including an iPod Nano with a 2.5-inch video monitor for watching movies and playing built-in games. The current version has a 2-inch screen but does not play videos.

"It's incredibly tiny. It's incredibly thin," Jobs said of the new Nano, which features a 320-by-240-pixel screen with 24 hours of audio playback. "We think it's really, really beautiful."

The new Nano, which will be in stores starting this weekend, will come in a 4-gigabyte version for $149, and an 8-gigabyte version for $199.

Jobs also announced that price of an 8-gigabyte iPhone will drop from $599 to $399, reports CBS News correspondent John Blackstone.

Apple also announced it will be selling ring tones for the iPhone for 99 cents, plus the 99-cent cost of the song. Ring tones from more than 500,000 songs available on iTunes will go on sale next week.

[aytkjc]

Crapple or Apple or whatever you want to call it just thinks thinner gadgets are more "portable". Thin, Thin, Thin! The only things that are thick these days are Crapple''s brains.

[cyberdjs4]

Crapple still doesn''t get it.

The Classic has a bigger hard drive for video but the same tiny 4:3 screen.

The Touch has the appropriate screen for video but a mere 16 GB storage capacity.

And, as far as I can tell, none of these Pods have a MicroSD expansion slot...still.
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I will wait 2 weeks for iRiver, Sandisk and Creative to resume blowing Crapple out of the water.

Crapple is no longer the innovator in media players anymore.

Wifi
Video playback
Screen-only layout
*** design

"Been there, done that" for the competition.

I guess when you have all of the market share, you don''t need to innovate anymore.
Look at Microsoft, GM and Sony.
Welcome to the club, Apple.

[incog-nito]

Well, I guess the iPhone you paid big bucks for is now yesterday''s news. Time to save up, camp out, get in line for the next new gadget. That is until they come up with another a few months later.

As the saying goes, there''s a sucker born every minute.

[jester188]

I would get one... welll wouldn''t get one right now... wait till all the bugs are worked out of the first and second gen ones... let all the early suckers deal with the problems...

i thik it is cool... the wi-fi would be nice... they need to improve battery life... and the screen not so easy to scratch... but i like i current iPod video... 30Gb and you''re right it is not even close to being full...

i''m a guy waht can i say i like the toys

[rafterman1]

===I don''''t mean to boast, but why can''''t these portable plays do anything else apart from being able to hold amounts of music NOBODY is ever going to be able to fill, much less navigate in a timely manner===

Actually, all that huge disk space is more practical for video. An average movie is about 1-1.5gb. An hour TV show is 400-500mb. I no longer own DVD''s or CD''s. Everything is digitized, about 500gb worth. I use "Apple TV" to view the files at home. 640x480 mp4''s look the same as 720x480 dvds on a 53 inch TV. I don''t have an iPod, but something like the Touch would be useful for airplane distraction. The PDA I do have, a Pocket PC, doesn''t do the protected iTunes video. There are ways to rip them, but ripping the protection from 800 video files would take me two years :) So, iPods stil have their place in the digital media world.

[brianbwb-2009]

"It''s one of the seven wonders of the world, it''s just incredible,"

Jobs sounds like Don King hyping a fight between two washed up pugilists.

And the product he refers to could be compared to one of the boxers.

[mickgabe]

Although digital media is a worthy tool.........when is life about.....music....computer.....video.......distraction?
...waste of time...........perhaps? HA

[hypnotoad72]

Note to any other company - add in PDA functionality and I''ll buy your product instead. Apple makes iJunk and are known for bad recycling and other not-so-green policies.

Besides, my PDA with 8GB flash card is more than sufficient to store a whole library of 256kbps files. Near CD quality for THOUSANDS of files and they sound better than the puny 128kbps format ipod uses. :-P

I don''t mean to boast, but why can''t these portable plays do anything else apart from being able to hold amounts of music NOBODY is ever going to be able to fill, much less navigate in a timely manner...

[feelfree1]

The war criminals responsible for the mass-murder of men, women, and children in Haditha, Iraq, walk away with a slap on the hand, another shipment of dead U.S. soldiers returns from the illegal war of aggression against Iraq, and CBS Newz is highlighting a free advertisement for Apple.

What a cruel joke to the concept of journalism.

[dredre2k]

OHMYGOD... The 4GB I phones are now on CLEARANCE on APPLE''s WEBSITE.. iWANT! I have a Samsung BlackJack that I''m going to SELL to fund this endeavor... :-D

[waterandsand]

ill be laughin all the way to the bank when the stock hits the 2 hundo mark by xmas

[pugster]

itouch - Stripped down version of iphone
new nano - probably bigger than the old nano
video ipod - same video ipod with bigger hard drive

Mr Jobs'' people have to create new products and not rehashed products.

[boldwin223]

Just another nail in the US economy coffin.

Where are IPods made?

This is from:
http://www.finfacts.ie/finfactsblog/2007/06/
apples-ipod-capturing-value-in-global.html

"Third, trade statistics can mislead as much as inform. For every $300 iPod sold in the US, the politically volatile US trade deficit with China increased by about $150 (the factory cost). Yet, the value added to the product through assembly in China is probably a few dollars at most."

"iPod maker admits breaking Chinese labour laws
Says Apple approved sweat-shop labour"

[feelfree1]

How about that?

From the looks of the site, a free advertisement for Apple is much, much, more important then another shipment of dead Americans heading home from Iraq!

They know who butters their bread!

[themurph2000]

Well, I won''t mind the ITouch too much. Imagine, all of the features of the IPhone without the ridiculously bad AT&T wireless service on it.

The others are just upgrades to existing products, although I imagine people who went out and bought the IPhone when it first came out are pretty P.O.ed.

I''m a PC user and probably always will be. Doesn''t mean you can''t see the positives in the competition.

[usayesterday]

Ah yes, this is alway my favorite type of news story, anything about Apple. It give me the chance to share this comical advertisement for the "iProduct"!

It totally encompasses the iTards who fall all over themselves for this krap!

http://www.aboyandhiscomputer.com/show.php?ItemID=2204

Enjoy!

[williamfold]

"...a MacBook running MacOS that''''s incomparably better than any PC laptop I''''ve ever owned..."

hee hee. you just keep telling yourself that. Macs are for people who need an image. if you want attention drawn to yourself, you could get it cheaper by wearing a mohawk and getting your nose pierced. lol.

[generey]

Yea. Cool. Ye Ha.

[T2_Squared]

All those that rushed out to buy an iPhone for $599 must feel a little foolish now that the price has dropped $200 in 2-3 months.

[samael2014]

"16 gig for $399? Isn''''t that a little insane. I can get a Creative Lab product with 80 gigs for around $299. But I guess if you want to buy into Jobs'''' world, he can always use a bigger house

Posted by jrsutt at 03:29 PM : Sep 05, 2007"

I guess if you''re looking to buy cheap disk space instead of really cool high-quality technology.

I''m completely sold on Apple, everything I buy of their''s just makes me want to buy more. If it costs more, it''s almost always worth it plus a whole lot more. I''ve got a MacBook running MacOS that''s incomparably better than any PC laptop I''ve ever owned and I''m also running Window''s VISTA on a separate partition; and everything else from Apple (Ipod, Iphone, Airport, Apple TV, I-Mac, Mac mini, cool high quality accessories) that I have just makes it all better. And no I don''t own stock in Apple, but I wish I did.