Category: iPod
Apple announces new iPod family: thinner, more storage, more colours, more "funner"
Steve Jobs has just announced an overhaul of the iPod range, with new iPod nanos, iPod classics, and iPod touches.
Here’s a quick overview of the new designs.
iPod nano
Available in nine colours (including a (PRODUCT) RED charity version), and either 8GB or 16GB storage capacity, the new design features curved aluminium and glass, and a built in accelerometer which allows you to flip viewing orientation, and even shake the device to shuffle music tracks.
It measures 3.6 x 1.5 x 0.24 inches, has a two-inch diagonal colour LCD with LED backlight (320 x 240 resolution), and offers up to 24 hours of music playback or four hours of video playback on a single charge.
8GB £109 16GB £149…
British man invented iPod in 1979. 3.5 minute storage capacity failed to impress. Apple stole idea
That poor bloke there invented the concept of iPod back in 1979. He’s British, although his alarmingly American-sounding name – Kane Kramer – suggests otherwise. Kane lives in Hitchin.
Mr Kramer came up with the idea of a portable music player, called the IXI, when he was 23. However, technology wasn’t ready for this in 1979. Kramer’s player could only store 3.5 minutes of music on its memory chip…
iPod Nano fourth generation dimensions released
There have been several blurry shots of the new iPod nano floating around the intertubes over the last month and, in a break from rumour tradition, it turns out that they’re all spot-on accurate…
IFA 2008: Griffin Evolve wireless speaker system & more docks (urgh)
Ahhhh, Griffin Technologies. If ever someone would suffer should the iBubble burst, it’d be them and they’d end up begging on the streets, probably next to Belkin.
For those of you without anything that requires a dock, then look away now, however, if your live in a four-strong pod family, then do have a listen to what our Susi from Shiny Shiny spied when she knocked on their door of the Griffin Evolve at IFA…
UPDATED: RUMOUR: Apple music subcription service – iTunes Unlimited
This is interesting – Apple have never operated a subscription service before, and Steve Jobs has gone on record saying that he didn’t like the idea of “renting” music. However, three prominent Apple blogs are all reporting that they’ve had an email from a tipster suggesting that an iTunes subscription service might be announced in late September…
An iPod to iPod Transfer Gadget – NOT for the iPhone.
A new gadget called the 'iPod® to iPod® Transfer Device' is on the market which allows you to 'quickly and easily transfer music, video, and pictures from one iPod to another, without the use of a computer'. You simply hook the two iPods up bottom to bottom (like a couple of mating mayflies), and as long as you have already pre-set your iPod to 'disk drive' mode, the crazy gadget allows your iPods to talk to each other and shift over it's content from one t' tother..
iPhone confirmed as a serious games machine – SEGA's Monkey Ball sells 300,000 in three weeks
SEGA, maker of the legendary Super Monkey Ball series, told moneyman blog the Wall Street Journal that it’s sold 300,000 copies of Monkey Ball via the App Store in the 20 days since launch. At $9.99 a pop, that’s one hell of a cash cow for all involved.
“It gives iPhone a justifiable claim to being a viable gaming platform, ” said Simon Jeffery, president of Sega’s US arm. It also means Nintendo and Sony might…
Apple working on streaming your iTunes library over the internet?
An interesting patent has turned up that suggests some new features we could be seeing in the next generation of iPods and iPhones. A rather crude diagram explains how Apple want to be able to let you share your iTunes library with your devices over the internet…
Steve Jobs: "MobileMe wasn't good enough" to ship alongside iPhone 3G
Showing the sort of honesty that important company bosses only ever display well after a product launch, Steve Jobs has criticised the iPhone 3G’s MobileMe synching app, saying it’s, well, a bit rubbish.
In the internal email to Apple staff, leaked to tech blog Ars Somethingorother, Steve said “It was a mistake to launch MobileMe at the same…
BRACE THE INTERNET: iPhone Nano rumours surface – Christmas launch on the way
“Oh my god… *stares at the internet*… it’s STARTING AGAIN.”
Just as soon as we’re over the iPhone 3G rumour period of HELL, another supposed Apple “exclusive” rears its head – this time regarding a newer, smaller iPhone that everyone’s clearly going to be calling the iPhone Nano…
