- Apple Showtime: Quick Update!
2G iPod Nano
Mini-like colors
- New capacities
- Better displays
- Better batteries,
- New pricing.
- Thinner aluminum case and are available in (again, mini-like) green, silver, black, blue, and pink.
- The 2GB and 8GB version are available in aluminum and black only
- As for pricing, $149 for 2GB, $199 for 4GB, and $249 for the 8GB model.
6G iPod
- The screen is now 60% brighter,
- Battery can last up to 3.5 hours during video playback,
- iPod includes new headphones,
- iPod is finally getting gapless playback,
- Text-based search and brightness controls, along with a whole slew of games.
- The ‘Pod has Bejeweled, Cubis 2, Mahjong, Mini Golf, Pac Man, Tetris, Texas Hold ‘Em, Vortex, and Zuma bundled, and you can nab new games for $5 each off of iTunes.
- New 60GB iPod for $250, and the new 80 gigger for $350.
iPod Shuffle
- Size of the iPod radio remote
- 1GB capacity,
- Shiny new aluminum body with a clip
- $79
iTV Pre-Announce
In an unusual turn of events, Apple has pre-announced a wireless video streaming set-top box to be released in Q1 2007 with the tag line “you can take content to your computer or iPod, but now… TV.” Going by the codeword of iTV, the box looks like a flattened Mac mini — apparently it’s around half the height — and features a built-in power supply, USB 2.0, Ethernet, 802.11 “wireless component video”, optical audio and HDMI ports, plus regular ol’ RCA stereo audio ports. Controllable by the standard Apple remote, the iTV will come with an updated version of the Front Row interface that shares Front Row’s smooth 3D graphics, but differs in that it has a menu on the right side of the screen. Apparently it’ll work with both iTunes on both PCs and Macs, and will sell for $299.
iTunes 7
Download full res (640 x 480) movies at $9.99 apiece for most titles, $14.99 for new releases and $12.99 for pre-orders. The files are protected, of course, with FairPlay DRM; they’ll play back on your iPod, but not much else, unfortunately, so if you want movies the iTunes way, be prepared to watch them in iTunes or to get yourself an iPod
Watch HERE!
Source: Engadget
How can they call it a Nano when it’s bigger that Steve Jobs…