“At just $199 the iPod touch is the most affordable gateway to Apple’s revolutionary App Store with more than 75,000 applications that you can wirelessly download right into your iPod touch,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, in the press release. “You get a great iPod, a great pocket computer with the industry’s best mobile web browser and a great game player, all in this super-thin beautiful enclosure.”
iPod touch is a great iPod for enjoying music, television shows, movies and podcasts. iPod touch has incredible features for music fans such as Cover Flow, Shake to Shuffle, and access to the legendary iTunes Store. And now, the new iPod touch supports Genius Mixes, which automatically creates up to 12 endless mixes of songs from your iTunes library that go great together. Movies and television shows look great on the gorgeous 3.5-inch widescreen display. iPod touch customers have the entire iTunes Store catalog at their fingertips, giving them instant access to the world’s largest catalog of over 11 million songs, TV shows and Hollywood movies to purchase and download directly to their iPod touch.
iPod touch is a great game player with its built-in accelerometer, revolutionary Multi-Touch user interface, its amazing graphics performance and the over 20,000 game and entertainment titles available on the App Store. With support for peer-to-peer connections, the new iPod touch gives users the ability to play multi-player games with people next to them or around the world. iPod touch customers can add new game titles from the App Store over Wi-Fi anytime and anywhere.
iPod touch is a great pocket computer, letting users surf the web, do email, manage their calendars, organize contacts, and use social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. With its award-winning Safari web browser, iPod touch users can experience the Internet like no other pocket-size device. iPod touch comes with the latest iPhone 3.1 software including: Cut, Copy and Paste; Spotlight Search to search across iPod touch or within Mail, Contacts, Calendar and iPod; landscape keyboard for Mail, Notes and Safari; remote lock for MobileMe and anti-phishing features.
Apple’s App Store is a phenomenal success with a selection of over 75,000 apps available and customer downloads topping a staggering 1.8 billion apps. iPhone and iPod touch customers in 77 countries can choose from an incredible range of apps in 20 categories, including games, business, news, sports, health, reference and travel. The App Store works with iPod touch over Wi-Fi so users can discover, purchase and download apps wirelessly and start using them instantly.
iPod touch features up to 30 hours of music playback or six hours of video playback on a single charge. The 8GB model holds up to 1,750 songs, 10,000 photos and 10 hours of video; the 32GB model holds up to 7,000 songs, 40,000 photos or 40 hours of video; and the 64GB model holds up to 14,000 songs, 90,000 photos or 80 hours of video.* The 32GB and 64GB models also include up to 50 percent faster performance and support for even better graphics with Open GL ES 2.0.
iPod is the world’s most popular family of digital music players with over 220 million sold. Apple’s new holiday lineup includes iPod shuffle in five great colors starting at just $59; iPod classic in a new 160GB model holding up to 40,000 songs for $249; the incredible new iPod nano with a video camera available in nine brilliant polished aluminum colors starting at $149; and the revolutionary iPod touch starting at the breakthrough price of just $199.
The new iPod touch is available immediately for a suggested price of $199 for the 8GB model, $299 for the 32GB model and $399 for the 64GB model through the Apple Store, Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers. iPod touch requires a Mac with a USB 2.0 port, Mac OS X v10.4.11 or later and iTunes 9; or a Windows PC with a USB 2.0 port and Windows Vista or Windows XP Home or Professional (Service Pack 3) or later and iTunes 9. Existing iPod touch users can update to the latest 3.1 software for $4.95 to enjoy new features including Genius Mixes and Genius for Apps. iPod touch owners who already have the 3.0 software get the 3.1 software update for free. Simply download the latest version of iTunes onto your Mac or PC, and purchase the 3.1 software update via iTunes.
More info about Apple’s new iPod touch here.
*Battery life and number of charge cycles vary by use and settings. See http://www.apple.com/batteries for more information. Music capacity is based on four minutes per song and 128-Kbps AAC encoding; photo capacity is based on iPod-viewable photos transferred from iTunes; and video capacity is based on H.264 1.5 Mbps video at 640-by-480 resolution.
Source: Apple Inc.
Somebody go ahead and cry about no camera…get it over with. Oh,…am I first post?
OK, I’ll do it. What no camera??
It IS a bit silly that the iPod nano has a video-capable camera but the iPod Touch has no camera at all. New iPod Touch is still fabulous, of course. (I have an iPhone, so this is not an issue for me.)
What is the covered hole on the back for anyway?
How come they can put an FM radio application on the nano, but not the iPod Touch? Also, why not include AM radio so people can listen to talk or sports programs while on the go?
No GPS? No camera? Almost had me.
Man, it is painfully obvious that there should be a camera on this. Why else is there that huge thing in the back? The older iPod Touches did not have this.
No compass? No FM radio?
I am very surprised that the new touch models do not include a camera, unlike the new nanos. Perhaps the rumor was correct and Apple ran into problems with the higher-end cameras that it sourced for the touches. That would explain the existence of a covered hole on the back of the touch (I haven’t seen the new touch, but Rob’s comment indicates that one exists).
My guess is that when iPhones get HD video cam, the iPod touch will get the same. Just a guess.
Maybe the rumors of camera problems were true, but the event was already scheduled, so Apple just dumped cameras for the moment.
When the problem is resolved, we’ll see a minor upgrade announcment and the plack panel on the back will be filled in with a camera.
I agree with Nathan
hope in time for Xmas , as they are on the kids list
Well Monkey puss! I guess I’m waiting even longer to get my iPod Touch. No camera no buyee buyee. Maybe they’ll get it working by the end of the year.
I just went to the Apple Store to take a look at the new iPod touches – could the black area at the top of the new iPod touch be an RF-transparent area to improve wi-fi performance?
Black panel on the back is the WI-fi antenna cover. Been there since the first touch. Stock down on “nothing new” news.
There is no black panel on the back of the new iPod touch unless they are referring to the wi-fi antenna section which has been there since the first generation.
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The back of the iTouch looks like a pirate with an eye patch. Definitely not classy, and very un-Apple like.
Doh!!! Three people got there before me
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Apple FAIL.
disappointment, no camera!!!! stupid decision from apple
iPod touch will see a big slowdown in sales now with a lot of people waiting for the Camera! Yea it’s that big of a deal!
Hope it doesn’t take another year.
@Macdoc: You seriously think the camera is a deal-killer? I doubt it. I’ve been waiting for this update just in case they put a camera in it, but no big deal, I’m ready to buy.
Also, am I reading right? There’s a speaker on the thing? That wasn’t there before, was it?
——RM
Is there any difference at all between the “new” 8GB touch and the one that was priced at 189 in the apple store this morning? Just wondering.
Other than the price.