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Apple announces iPod Touch: iPhone without the phone
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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
JJ said 2:41PM on 9-05-2007
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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Steve Keys said 2:43PM on 9-05-2007
You are so mine.
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..ak said 2:44PM on 9-05-2007
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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John Hopper said 2:45PM on 9-05-2007
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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Scott McC said 2:45PM on 9-05-2007
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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(01) said 2:45PM on 9-05-2007
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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Justin said 2:46PM on 9-05-2007
No Google Maps app on the iPod touch is lame.
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Howard Wright said 2:48PM on 9-05-2007
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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jps said 3:37PM on 9-05-2007
I like, insofar as it seems like it'd be more interesting to crack open and stick new apps on. It's one thing to brick a phone, another to brick your ipod.
That said, I know there haven't exactly been floods of reports of bricked iphones or anything, but if you get a glitch even just for a day I imagine it could be a pain.
I'll likely wind up with an iphone though.
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jordan said 2:48PM on 9-05-2007
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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Radical Bender said 2:51PM on 9-05-2007
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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BigWheel said 2:53PM on 9-05-2007
they should have given it the same camera as the iPhone
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imacsteve said 2:53PM on 9-05-2007
I think i will wait till it gets 802.11n
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dave said 2:53PM on 9-05-2007
No Mail! WTF! That's all I can say, there's Safari but no Mail!? I don't get it.
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SubGenius said 2:53PM on 9-05-2007
No email app and no Google Maps!
Lame!
Hopefully they can be hacked in from an iPhone.
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Mars said 3:42PM on 9-05-2007
Absolutely agree with everyone. I just can't believe that the iPhot Touch has only 16Gb! That's just insufficient for music + photos + movies. It would be at least in the 30-40Gb range.
Right now, I just rather have the iPod Classic with 160Gg until the touch gets a beefier hard drive.
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SubGenius said 2:56PM on 9-05-2007
Then again, since the iPhone is only $399...I'll go for that anyway
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Angela said 2:58PM on 9-05-2007
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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Sietepestes said 9:37AM on 9-07-2007
I was impressed.
Impressed Apple forgot the two coolest features the iphone had n the ipod touch. Email and Google maps. I mean come on.... its not like you are not including safari which you are.
For the price of the iPod Touch of 16gb id rather just buy the iphone. on the ipod classic, screw 80gb... if i were going that route, it would be a better value the 160gb ipod.
Im disappointed in the ipod touch. On the other hand I liked the nano, althoug not for me.
my .02 cents
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Simon Arch said 3:07PM on 9-05-2007
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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