Apple unveils ‘Touch iPod’ that can surf the web
Cory Bergman September 5th, 2007
Updated: Steve Jobs has just unveiled a “Touch iPod” with a 3.5 inch widescreen and the same touch functionality as the iPhone. And with WiFi! So you can browse the internet via a Safari browser with that same flip, zoom, scroll functionality. And you can watch YouTube videos, as well as video off your iPod, of course. “The iPod looks exactly like it does on the iPhone,” blogs Gizmodo’s Jason Chen. And just 8mm thick. You can also purchase and download content from iTunes straight from the device. When you sync up later, it will port the song over to your computer’s iTunes collection. (Jobs also announced this new feature for the iPhone, as well.)
And that’s not all. “When you get near a Starbucks location, you’ll get a Starbucks icon in the iTunes store,” blogs Chen. “You can buy songs that are playing over the Starbucks music selection, and you can even look at the last 10 songs played and buy the songs there.” Wow! Starbucks just became a major music player.
“It’s one of the seven wonders of the world,” Jobs proclaims. Two models: 8GB for $299 and 16GB for $399. They’ll ship by the end of the month. Oh, and price just dropped on the iPhone. There’s only one model now, the 8GB, and it’s $399 (instead of $599). And Jobs also unveiled new iPod Nanos with a 2-inch color video screen.
Gizmodo live-blogged the keynote (with photos) here. And Engadget did the same here. We’re still waiting for the new stuff to appear on the Apple store.
Related: Microsoft cuts $50 off price for Zune.
13 Comments Add your own
1. Matt | September 5th, 2007 at 11:32 am
The ATT deal has been a sticking point for me and is why I won’t get an iPhone. I like the new wireless ability, and while not quite as useful as the full-blown phone, for me it’ll be good enough to do what I want - I’m excited!
2. Mike Escutia | September 5th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
The iPod touch is tempting, though I’m leaning towards the new iPod classic, myself. 80GB of space and 30 hours of battery life? NICE.
3. Charles | September 5th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
After today, do news directors give their staff all Blackberry’s or iPods?
4. Chris | September 5th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Wouldn’t it be great for Apple to include a USB an/or Firewire port on the the iPod touch or iPhones?
If you could connect your digital or video camera to your Touch or iPhone, you could easily ingest high resolution video or images, and upload them to YouTube, or your favorite picture sharing site.
Think about the effect that would have on ENG! Reporters could take their iPhone or iPod Touch into the field, upload their video without having to lug around a laptop computer.
Obviously, Apple and others are reluctant to add a USB interface, because it would make it easier for people to pirate and share music, but it would be pretty cool to have your iPod interface with your other devices.
5. El Dangeroso | September 5th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
Related: Microsoft cuts $50 off price for Zune.
Related: Everyone points and laughs at Microsoft.
6. theTVaddict | September 5th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
What’s a Zune?
7. Don Day | September 5th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
Save another $50 on the iphone by getting the refurbished model. Same warranty, same phone…
google iphone refurbished for the page
8. Bill Gorman | September 5th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
No email client pre-loaded on the iPhone touch, sadly.
9. M Gorman | September 6th, 2007 at 7:16 am
I was stupid enough to buy an 80 gig “classic” last week thinking that everything today was going to be about the Touch and Shuffle, neither of which appeal to me and they way I would use it.
Then came $100 price drop for the 80 gig. Thank God the store let me return it last night.
10. D Jones | September 6th, 2007 at 10:37 pm
Sorry for my Ignorence but Has apple announced when this and the iphone will be launched in Australia?
We are always so far behind the times down here
11. Vlajbert | September 7th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
Hmm, iPod + voip + wimax, who need AT&T?
12. paul | September 8th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
“Wow! Starbucks just became a major music player.”
Golly gee whiz! And that’s a good thing?
13. Salman "Sollai" | April 7th, 2008 at 11:39 am
o.k here’s the thing, its nice, has good qualities, but small space, get scratched and its god damn pricy!
i rather buy other mp3 players! but the only thing wrong, they arent ipods!
ipods are sexy, thats a huge stone and huge shoes to fill.
but lets face it, not all of us are millionares so we cant buy every new ipod with new features especially if the rabbits at apple are poppin a new one every 2 months, and the updates arent really huge!
like the generation 2 was better than one in batery life, 3 was better than 2 in colours ETC!
if u wanna charge us a kidney’s worth of money, MAKE IT A POWERFUL MP3 PLAYER!
its good, but NOT POWERFUL!
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