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| Rock and Roll Event – Ipod Nano,touch and Shuffle prices revamped Posted: 09 Sep 2009 06:30 PM PDT
In addition to the launch of iTunes 9, Apple also unveiled its revamped line of iPod portable media devices today during a special media event. While the classic, touch and even shuffle got slight changes in capacity and new pricing, the nano was the star of the show, getting a new built-in video camera and several new features. The move baffled nearly everyone, including a number of angry folks hoping the iPod touch would get a camera and possibly GPS features to make it more comparable to the iPhone.Let me give info on what’s changed. iPod Classic Storage space has been increased from 120GB to 160 GB for the same price i.e 250$.Nothing new here. iPod Shuffle The button less shuffle now comes in five colors,green,blue,and pink to the silver and black options. $59 buys you a 2GB model, and $79 doubles the capacity to 4GB. A “special edition” 4GB model in polished stainless steel is available for $99. The languishing classic stays pretty much the same,except it now has a 160GB 1.8″ hard drive inside, and sells for just $249. iPod Nano  Images Courtesy- Arstechnica  Images by GDGT  Images courtesy- Crunch Gear
The built-in radio tuner allows you to tag favorite stations, favorite songs, search in radio regions, and even pause live radio so you can resume listening later. Apple did not specify how long the pause would last for and you cannot record radio, but the live pause feature is pretty interesting The Nano also has a build-in pedometer and voice recorder.The Nano’s come in red, pink, orange, silver, black, purple, blue, green, and yellow. They will cost $179 for 16GB and $149 for the 8GB.
iPod Touch iPod touches,got expected boosts to CPU speed and storage capacity but lack of camera.Two new models have the updated CPU and graphics capabilities of the iPhone 3GS—a 32GB model for $299, and a 64GB model is now offered for $399. An 8GB model without the updated CPU or graphics is selling for $189—$30 cheaper than yesterday’s model.Apple slashed rates for 32GB iPod touch, which had $120 slashed from its price.Check out the apple store page when it went down before the event was started.
So below represents what was the price and how much was it reduced.
The revamped prices are
No news on the 16Gb variant but a 64 GB was introduced.While the addition of GPS and digital compass would have been nice and the most surprising thing is why didn’t Apple include the cameras in iPod Touch.This was the failure as they gave one in Nano.Some mixed surprises here.What do you feel. Via Arstechnica and Crunch Gear |
| Download iTunes 9 for Windows and Mac Posted: 09 Sep 2009 04:51 PM PDT During the few moments of the Rock and Roll event on 9/09/09 Apple laid out a new version of iTunes i.e iTunes 9.Steve Jobs took the stage today at Yerba Buena Arts Center in San Francisco,and was joined by SVP of worldwide marketing Phil Schiller and VP of iTunes engineering Jeff Robin to announce a number of new music-related products. Jobs unveiled iTunes 9, which sports a number of refined syncing options and automatic Genius playlists.
Jobs kicked off the event by making a brief statement about his recent liver transplant. Jobs received the liver of a 20-yr old someone who had died in a car crash, and had elected to donate his organs. “I wouldn’t be here without such generosity, so I hope all of us can be as generous and elect to become organ donors,” Jobs told the crowd. But, he said, “I’m vertical, back at Apple, loving every day of it, getting to work with incredibly talented teams to work with some great new products.” The updated iTunes also supports some new refinements to the iTunes store itself,including new iPhone ringtones(library of 30,000 pre-made ringtones for the iPhone),Genius Mixes,the rumored iTunes LP format (aka Cocktail), iTunes Extras for movies, and a refined store organization.the store has been cleaned up in a Snow Leopard fashion along with a bunch of other small features including sharing what albums you're interested in on Facebook.
The store comes in a full screen mode and you just simply roll over a song to activate Quick View that lets you purchase without leaving the page,just as preview page. Ain’t that awesome.This works with songs, albums, music videos, movies, and TV episodes.Now you can pick up LPs from the store that includes lyrics, notes, videos, photos, and more. There are two major new content formats viz. iTunes LP and iTunes Extras.iTunes LP,the result of the “Cocktail” project,gives album buyers access to a variety of additional content, including animated, sync’ed lyrics, liner notes, performance videos, discography information, and more. iTunes LP is described like “DVD extras for music iTunes Extras bring all the features you get on a DVD to the iTunes store(DVD Extras). The new Home sharing tool allows users to easily share and copy their media over five select computers.Beyond streaming, tracks and video can be copied among approved computers, and can even be configured to automatically sync content to different machines.You can gift the music or share on facebook or twitter or last.fm too. Tha app management is awesome which gives you access to setup and arrange your home screens on your iphone/iphone touch.Apps can be arranged by genre,sorted onto separate screens, and even entire screens can be re-arranged right in iTunes. The whole arrangement can then sync to your iPhone or iPod touch.You can also drag and drop to move certain apps or whole pages of apps.
You can also sync music with artists,genres etc. instead of making smart playlist which can be tedious at times if you have a large database of library,sync photos by album, faces, or events or sync movies by several criteria. Steve Jobs called iTunes 9 “the biggest release of iTunes in a long time.” Not sure though if the app is updated with full 64-bit Snow Leopard support. Download iTunes 9 Hate downloading like this eh ? Don’t bother, go for offline installers. Download iTunes 9 offline installers for Mac OS X Download iTunes 9 offline installers for Vista/Windows 7 This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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