Apple iPods Part 3: nano Gets Bigger Screen And Paint-Job September 7, 2007
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Apple overhauled the wee nano too this week, whipping out the paintbrush and squeezing in a bigger screen for watching videos with less squinting.
The new nano boasts a 2in screen, with a decent display resolution of 320x240 pixels. Again, like the new iPod Touch and iPod Classic, it comes with Cover Flow for flipping through your tunes via album covers.
The aluminium chassis is newly tweaked and the nano now comes in silver, black, blue, green and a special edition red. It also comes pre-loaded with a few games, including iQuiz, an entertainment trivia game, Vortex, a frenetic 360 degree brick-bashing game and Klondike, a version of Solitaire. New games like Sudoku, Pac-Man and Tetris will be available for download on iTunes later in the month.
Audio playback time is rated at 24 hours and five for hours for video. Shipping now, the 4GB iPod nano comes in silver for £99 but if you want the funkier black, blue, green and red versions you’ll have to shell out for the 8GB version at £129.-Martin Lynch
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Apple iPods Part 2: iPod Classic Gets Bigger, But Thinner September 7, 2007
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Sounding like a Coke flavour, Apple has refreshed its iPod ‘Classic’ player by swapping out some smaller drives with some bigger ones, leaving consumers with a choice of an 80GB or, a whopping 160GB model. Like the new iPod Touch, it also comes with the new interface Cover Flow feature, which lets you browse music by album cover – although, not with your finger on the display like the Touch.
It also sports a new, all-metal chassis and with 160GB of storage under the hood, Apple says it will cope with 40,000 songs – the first generation iPod could tackle a 1,000 and I remember when I thought that was a lot too.
In usage terms, Apple promises up to 40 hours of music playback and seven hours of video playback on the 160GB model and up to 30 hours of music playback and five hours of video playback on the 80GB model.
Both models are shipping now and cost £159 for the 80GB player and £229 for the 160GB one. Jump now for the full specs.-Martin Lynch
New Apple iPods Part 1: Meet The iPod Touch September 7, 2007
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I’m sure very little of this is a surprise considering Apple’s big event had more leaks than a Russian nuclear power plant, but Apple has introduced a new kind of iPod, called the iPod Touch.
The most noticeable features are the big 3.5in display, with touchscreen controls - a la iPhone – and, for the first time on an iPod, in-built Wi-Fi which can be used with the new iTunes Wi-Fi store for browsing and purchasing tunes on the move. It’s 8mm thin and Flash-based, with an 8GB and 16GB model.
Features like Cover Flow will allow you to browse your music collection by album cover using your finger to scroll. It sports the Safari Web browser onboard, as well as Google Search, Yahoo oneSearch and Apple’s YouTube application.
The 8GB and 16GB models are due in a few weeks and cost £199 and £269, respectively. More on the other new products in a while.-Martin Lynch
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