Apple introduced quite a few products today during their “Let’s Rock” special event:
As expected, they revealed iTunes 8. The new version, available today for download, includes
- Support for High Definition TV shows ($2.99 for High Definition episodes and $1.99 for Standard Definition episodes)
- Genius playlists: automatically find songs similar to the ones you own
- New grid view
- New visualizer
Apple also introduced new iPod nanos :
- Thinnest iPod ever that comes in 9 Colors: silver, purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, red, pink, black
- Accelerometer
- Shake iPod to shuffle
- Genius playlists
- Aluminum with curved glass
- $149 for 8GB. $199 for 16GB.
Apple introduced a new iPod Classic (only in 120 GB) and new iPod Touch with the following features:
- 2.1 Firmware (see below)
- Built-in speaker, volume controls (similar to the iPhone)
- Genius playlist
- Nike+iPod support
- Better battery (36 hours when playing music and 6 hours when playing videos)
- new prices : $229 for 8GB, $299 for 16GB and $399 for 32GB
Today iPod shuffle also got new colors and a price drop.
And finally, iPhone and iPod Touch OS 2.1 will also be available this friday:
- better battery life and bug fixes
- fewer call drops
- backups are going to be faster (that will be great…)
- no App crashes (finally!)
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