Apple announces new iPod line-up
Apple held its highly-anticipated press event yesterday (Wednesday), and for the first time in recent memory, streamed it live via the Web.
Some of the announcements:
- 230,000 new iPhone activations per day – this doesn’t include upgrades (jab at Android with that one)
iOS 4.1:
- Fixes proximity sensor, Bluetooth, iPhone 3G performance bugs
- HDR photos standard in iOS 4.1
- Upload to YouTube
- TV Show Rentals
- GameCenter for end users to be released next week
iOS 4.2 (sneak peek):
- all the features of iOS 4.1, plus
- Wireless printing via Print Center app
- AirPlay (formerly AirTunes), stream audio, video and photos over WiFi
- Coming out in November (free update)
iPods
- 275 million iPods sold
- all new iPods, biggest change in iPods ever
iPod shuffle (fourth generation)
- buttons
- voiceover
- playlists
- Genius mixes
- $49 – 2GB
- four colors
iPod nano
- multitouch-based clickwheel
- 46% smaller, 42% lighter
- clip
- Volume buttons
- VoiceOver
- FM Radio, Pedometer, Nike+
- Six colors
- $149 – 8GB, $179 – 16GB
iPod touch
- number one game player in the world (50+% marketshare worldwide)
- even thinner
- Retina Display (4x amount of pixels, 326 ppi, 24-bit, LED)
- Apple A4 chip
- 3-axis gyroscope
- front-facing camera and FaceTime (over WiFi)
- rear camera with HD video recording
- $229 (8GB), $299 (32GB), $399 (64GB)
- Available next week (pre-order today)
iTunes 10
- New icon ditches the CD
- New social feature called Ping
- Ping also available on iOS devices
Apple TV (second generation)
- one quarter of the size
- includes a remote
- Music
- TV shows
- all HD
- rentals only, no purchases
- $4.99 first run HD movies (day and date releases)
- $0.99 HD TV show rentals from ABC and Fox (commercial free)
- Netflix streaming
- streaming from a computer
- AirPlay (coming in November in iOS 4.2)
- $99, available in 4 weeks, pre-order today
It was really a bunch of updates from apple, so what do you think about the new announcements?
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