Today, Apple introduced the iPod Touch. It's essentially an iPhone without the phone part, and without the speakers and built-in microphone. $299 buys you an 8GB sytem, complete with all the iPhone-like touchy goodness you've come to know and want. $399 buys you a 16 GB model with the same embarrassing name.
The iTouch includes built-in WiFi so you can use Safari and YouTube on-the-go as well as make purchases from the iTunes Store. (the iPhone will offer the same ability later this month). Its main button bar offers direct access to Music (great icon), Videos (ugly icon) and Photos (same old icon), as well as the new iTunes WiFi store.
The iPod Touch will ship "later this month".
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9-05-2007 @ 2:41PM
JJ said...
do ANY of the new iPod models have built-in support for bluetooth headsets?
that was actually my most-wanted new feature!......
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9-05-2007 @ 2:43PM
Steve Keys said...
You are so mine.
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9-05-2007 @ 2:44PM
..ak said...
I wonder if the iTunes Wi-Fi will also download podcasts for me. If that's the case, I may transfer all my files to it and not use iTunes on my desktop.
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9-05-2007 @ 2:45PM
John Hopper said...
If they can fit 16GB in the iPod Touch, why not the iPhone? I'm waiting till the iPhone hits 32GB before I can consider getting one.
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9-05-2007 @ 2:45PM
Scott McC said...
Why the HELL can't I get a 160GB iPod Touch? Incredibly I'm more annoyed by that than the fact that I spent $599 on what's now a $399 iPhone...
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9-05-2007 @ 2:45PM
(01) said...
I suddenly am not regretting holding out to buy the hottest iPod ever... I'm closing in on 50 gigs of music and would rather hold out until there's more space. But boy do they look nice...
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9-05-2007 @ 2:46PM
Justin said...
No Google Maps app on the iPod touch is lame.
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9-05-2007 @ 2:48PM
jordan said...
Why the hell does the larger, more expensive, iPod Touch not have an option for a hard drive.. DAMNIT...
I NEED MORE THAN 16GB APPLE
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9-05-2007 @ 2:48PM
Howard Wright said...
Hmmmmm. I was so looking forward to more of a storage bumb from my 3G 10GB iPod. Why, oh why didn't they make it a tad thicker and give us 30+ GB of storage!?!?!
The Classic doesn't excite me much at the moment...
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9-05-2007 @ 2:51PM
Radical Bender said...
When Apple finally decides to pair this with the 160 GB hard drive in the "iPod classic," I'll buy a new one.
This is just about what I want, but seriously Apple, I've got an two-year-old 4G iPod with 40 GB of hard drive space. Why can't we at least match that?
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9-05-2007 @ 2:53PM
dave said...
No Mail! WTF! That's all I can say, there's Safari but no Mail!? I don't get it.
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9-05-2007 @ 2:53PM
imacsteve said...
I think i will wait till it gets 802.11n
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9-05-2007 @ 2:53PM
BigWheel said...
they should have given it the same camera as the iPhone
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9-05-2007 @ 2:53PM
SubGenius said...
No email app and no Google Maps!
Lame!
Hopefully they can be hacked in from an iPhone.
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9-05-2007 @ 2:56PM
SubGenius said...
Then again, since the iPhone is only $399...I'll go for that anyway
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9-05-2007 @ 2:58PM
Angela said...
I'd wager that Apple will sneak in Mail, Google Maps, and other apps later on in order not to upset AT&T all in one shot.
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9-05-2007 @ 3:07PM
Simon Arch said...
Meh. If I'd wanted an iPhone I'd have bought an iPhone. Give me that schway 160gb iPod 'classic' and I'll be in hog heaven for the foreseeable future, at least two or three years, I should think.
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9-05-2007 @ 3:09PM
mitch said...
Wow - that's a lot of negative comments.
I think Apple delivered huge today.
I noticed the lack of Mail - kind of interesting.
It's also interesting the icon for Calculator is different while all the others stayed the same.
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9-05-2007 @ 3:15PM
Scott said...
If it's got Safari, doesn't that mean that regular web-based mail and web-based Google Maps are already available to it? I don't own an iPhone, so I don't quite understand why a special iPod app is so important for these things.
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9-05-2007 @ 3:19PM
Chad said...
Newton 2.0!
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