“The iPod touch just went on sale, so we made our way down to get one before the Apple Stores even admitted they had them in stock. Hidden away in cabinets behind the register, they were only being sold to those who asked for them by name,” Daniel Eran Dilger reports for AppleInsider.
“We raced home with a 16GB model and took some quality unboxing and iPhone comparison photos,” Dilger reports.
“The touch comes in a box similar to the iPhone, but only about half as deep,” Dilger reports. “On the cover is Corinne Bailey Rae… The touch itself is a few millimeters thinner than the iPhone; 8 mm versus 11.6 mm, but it appears to be about half as thick and feels considerably thinner in the hand.”
Much more, including comparison photos with iPhone, 30GB 3G iPod, and unboxing shots here.
WTF… mine isn’t supposed to get to me until Oct 3…
Oh? Did no one tell you? You’re getting it on your birthday!
Look at the thickness difference between iPhone and the iPod Fondle….they could of stuck an HD in there easy if they kept the iPhone form factor w/o the phone electronics.
Just my $0.02
This site has so many ads and popups and garbage on it that it is the slowest website to load on the Internet!! Very un Apple
What a piece of crap. One button? My Zune has way more than that.
Welcome to the Social.™
Actually that would be my birthday.
Pictures? Yes.
“Quality” pictures? Um, no. Many of them are poorly focused with too much reflection and bad lighting.
@Ray: supposedly it’s an issue of power/battery life, not form factor.
@Zune Tang: TROLL TROLL TROLL TROLLY TROLL TRA-TROLL TROLL TROLL.
I like bunnies
9-11 was an inside job, and you know it.
Display clip….smart little throw in Apple!
Sweet, sweet Apple porn. Twist the stem and make a wish.
my MBP runs snappier now!
Several artists like Corinne Bailey Rae and Nelly Furtado are getting lots of advertising from Apple. Good for them.
Agreed about this site. MDN needs an iphone specific version of the page. I hardly ever visit anymore as the only thing that loads quickly are the ADs!!!!! MDN is really going downhill. 🙁
My sentiments exactly, Ray.
I was going over the dimensions of the iPod lineup last night.
The 80gb iPod is THINNER than the iPhone! Can you believe that?
The 160gb is only about 2mm thicker than the iPhone.
With this in mind, imagine how thin a device with a 30gb hard drive could be.
I find it hard to believe that a company with such engineering prowess couldn’t find a way to get a HDD in the iPod touch with little to no effect on thickness while overcoming power consumption issues.
Nevertheless I’m still considering an iPod touch.
Do people post unboxing pictures of Dell’s? I wonder why.
(nothing to see here folks, move along)
Streaming audio would be very cool – given you had an internet connection – like at Starbucks or similar place or home (for free)
That would require iTunes – I don’t know – maybe you can do it??
Anyone know?
If not, it seems to me that the deals that Apple made with AT&T;& Music corps. has restricted the capabilities of both iPhone and iPod Touch.
Why is this a news story? While unboxing a new
Apple product is very cool, it isn’t news.
“I find it hard to believe that a company with such engineering prowess couldn’t find a way to get a HDD in the iPod touch with little to no effect on thickness while overcoming power consumption issues.”
And where was your degree in electronic engineering from again?
“Do people post unboxing pictures of Dell’s? I wonder why.”
Have you seen Michael Dell dance?
Besides, the few people who care are busy watching videos of paint drying on Laserdisc. Or tax accounting.
does that mean that if you go into an apple store and ask for an ipod touch…theyll give you you one?
HD based iPod touch is due next year.. this is the start of transition years were Apple introduces the touch and see’s how popular it is. Then moves to Flash and adds hard drive model next year, then to a nano model the following year. If Apple had replaced nano and the classic with the touch interface everyone who has been using scroll wheels would be up in arms on how much the touch sucks over the old scroll wheel. Apple is priming the customers for the future with the iPod Touch. Think of it as an introduction to the future.
Ordered mine off the Apple Store (engraved) on Sunday and sometime between noon and 3 today it shifted to “prepared for shipment”. I am hoping for Xmas in Sept. next week.
I’ll have to take a quick look and check, FOF. It’s under my bed. Hold on a second while I ask your mother to pass it to me