“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.
“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”
Wow, how mature.
@ Demon
I don’t think Apple will put a hard drive in the iPod touch. Instead, it will keep increasing flash capacity as appropriate, based on flash prices. Apple obviously wants to move away from hard drive based storage; hard drives in hand-held devices are the “weak link” in terms of durability and there is noticeable spin-up lag when you do something that has not been buffered. The current 80 and 160 GB iPod classic models will be kept in the lineup as long as there is demand (with maybe one more storage upgrade).
Well, the Best Buy here in the middle of nowhere, North Dakota, just put out their new Ipod display including the Touch. It was funny, the display model, when you pressed the button, said “iPhone not available for XX minutes.” I assume the battery was charging up.
@ ken1w
I’d disagree to some extent because Hard Drives (HD) are getting smaller and then there is the Flash based Hard Drives. The iPod classic is destine to be discontinued as the prices of the new drives comes down over the next 12 months. 80GB to 120GB of Flash Ram outside the Hard Drive package will remain a bit pricey for the next 24 months.
@ Demon
> then there is the Flash based Hard Drives.
Why would Apple incur the added expense of using Flash inside a hard drive -like case when it is cheaper to use the flash components directly?
> 80GB to 120GB of Flash Ram … will remain a bit pricey for the next 24 months.
You don’t need 80GB for flash-based iPods to take over. The previous gen “big” iPod was 30GB (for the thin model). That’s just one iteration away; it’ll be here for the next holiday shopping season, at 32GB for the touch and iPhone.
The 80GB and larger iPod classic will be around for awhile for those who want maximum storage. But most people do not need to store their entire video library on their iPods, like they did for their music library. For music, it is desirable to have everything, because listening to music is a passive activity, and you can keep it going all day while you do something else. And you want to hear your songs over and over. However, for video, I rarely watch the same video media more than once, so I don’t need to carry every video I have on the iPod. Mostly, I just need to have the ones I haven’t watched so that I can watch when I have some free time AND when I’m not doing something else. Even 16GB is sufficient for that purpose.
Apple will keep the iPod classic with a hard drive going for as long as there is demand, and probably increase storage. But I doubt Apple will “go backwards” and put a hard drive in the iPod touch (or any other new iPod model going forward).
I am learning that the ipod classic is hard to open – much more than the iPod Video or earlier models. What a shame.
-Laura
Apple store in Glendale, WI out of stock on iPod Touch at 2PM on 9-15. they store had at least 6 units on display to demo. I went to Best Buy which is about 5 miles north of the Apple store. They had none on display but at least 5 or 6 in stock. Paid my $399 and I’m a happy camper now.
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