This time around, Apple has chosen to update almost it’s entire line-up in one go.
The Shuffle, the screen-less tiny player get’s a range of colours. To be honest, I still haven’t seen the current generation shuffle, but it looks mighty small when you look at how big the hands are in the pic…prices are Rs. 3,700/$59 for the 2GB model and Rs. 4,800/$79 for the 4GB Shuffle.
The Touch, to be honest, has just been retouched, that’s all. No major updates to speak of, as of such. The price starts at Rs. 12,400/$199 for the 8GB model, which ramps up to Rs. 18,400/$299 for the 32GB model and a new 64GB model at Rs. 24,400/$399 (yikes).
But what I’m really interested is, the iPod Nano has undergone some more substantial changes, which could translate into similar changes in the Classic. First and foremost, tho. It also has a feature which was missed sorely in earlier iterations of the iPod – an in-built radio. Agreed, a third party accessory allowed a user to listen to FM radio, but it needed to be in-built to be truly useful. Apart from that, it seems that the Nike+iPod relationship might be coming to an end, because Apple has gone ahead and used the in-built accelerometer in the Nano to create it’s own inbuilt Pedometer and fitness application.
Apart from that iTunes 9 has been released as well. I’m downloading it right now, and its setup is even more massive, weighing in at 88.8MB. I hope that it’s worth it… Will post on that later
e Nano now has a VGA (640×480) camera, which records in H.264 with AAC audi