Finally, the time has come for Apple to officially officiate their new iPod Touch. Like previous iPod Touch which got their design with the theme of ‘an iPhone without the phone’, the new iPod Touch is blessed with nearly everything that is from the iPhone 4, minus the slim slot and the ugly packing. New A4 chip, with Retina Display, and front-facing camera for FaceTime via Email, and a 3-axis gyroscope to improve your gaming session on your Touch. Well obviously Apple wants to push forward the gaming market of the iPod Touch with that new feature. Well, we’re getting three new iPods this time around. Let’s have a look at the first one. Read more…
What claimed to be cases for the next generation iPod touch, nano/shuffle has somehow harden the proof that has already been repeatedly shown to the world.
Chinese case retailer X-Doria has the latest case, and they seemed to have hole for an iPod touch with a camera, and another smaller version which is as a case for a “nano 6G”, but could seemingly also be for a new iPod shuffle with a touchscreen. My bed is more on an iPod Nano with tiny touchscreen. Of particular note, the apparent iPod touch case seems to reveal a curved back more similar to the current model than the iPhone 4, while the nano / shuffle case looks to be a near perfect match for that 1.7-inch Apple touchscreen that mysteriously turned up in Taiwan last month. Well, the mystery will be unveiled in these few days.
Daring Fireball’s John Gruber has this to say: “if you wait a few weeks to buy the Touch, you’ll get one with a Retina Display and dual cameras.” The man’s not one to fool around with such matters, so we tend to believe him here. It also helps that nothing he’s saying would be really surprising, since many have seen the Touch that will come with a front facing camera. But a Retina Display does surprise me. So, this time the Touch will again be an iPhone knock-down with no SIM slot. I wonder if there’s the 5-Megapixel camera too. Perhaps Apple would market the Touch as a ‘Back to school’ product?
This would surely be seen coming straight up. Previously we’ve seen FaceTime that might be coming in email. And it seemed that Apple’s upcoming iOS 4.1 will have this feature in it. That means we can expect the upcoming iPod Touch to come with iOS 4.1 as default too, in order to have FaceTime running on the front-camera enabled Touch.
Yes, another day another iPod/iPhone speaker docks. But this S715i is from Logitech, not your cheapo China-brand plasticky speaker with a cheap connector to connect to your iPod or iPhone. Now Logitech’s not planning to sell them as some normal speaker dock. They’re persuading you that this thing “sounds like a beast”. Maybe the speaker roars instead of singing. But with 8 custom-designed, laser-tuned speaker drivers that deliver “next generation”, “professionally tuned acoustics” capable of “filling a room” with “bold sound”, I guess it can really roar. Because the brand’s reputable, therefore Logitech’s throwing an extra 8-hour rechargeable battery. But other than that, it’s still a speaker. There’s nothing wrong for you to give out a sceptical face, but for $149.99, this speaker REALLY is not your typical China-brand speaker that bleeds every time you blast Lady Gaga’s song.
Here’s something that I would call “turning nothing into something”. Creative idea combined with smart engineering, that’s what the AppleSkin 520 is all about. It looked to be a very simple skin for your typical iPod Touch, but somehow there’s a place for you to slot-in your SIM card. Read more…
It was just about a week ago that Apple seeded the beta 1 to developers, and now beta 2 is ready for testing. Looks like the iOS 4.1 is getting ready to go gold very soon.
I guess the folks over at iHome have been trying very hard when designing this product. But you can’t blame them for the effort, as they’re up against zillions of other companies in this over-saturated market. What about the function? Fairly simple, that you’ll actually laugh off your chair. FM radio, alarm clock, a dock, and that’s it. There’s no mention of charge-on-the-go function, but I hope it does, or the product will sink into oblivion like the rest. I mean, who would want a 7-inch slate shining on your face whole night?
It has been rumored that the iPod Touch will receive an update very soon at the end of this year. What’s more is that the Touch might also have Apple’s FaceTime video-calling function. Now of kush the iPod Touch will not have mobile numbers as it doesn’t have SIM slot, but instead Apple will be using email for the Touch’s FaceTime app.
With this getting into the iPod Touch, we can certainly guess that the iPod Touch will have camera or even 2 cameras (a front vga camera and a back 5-MegaPixel camera) perhaps? But my bet is a front vga camera with a back 3.2MegaPixel camera with LED flash. But the Touch’s price will surely shoot sky high with such features included.
iPod being integrated into cars is a common thing, as done by many car manufacturers. But still, we can only select the songs through our small iPod’s screen. BMW has decided to change that, and is the first automobile maker to integrate the iPod Out functionality of the iOS 4. This means that you’ll be able to view your iPod’s screens and menus right on your car’s built-in display. This seemed to be a nice feature, as we no longer have to fiddle with the small menu when we can control our iPod using the bigger display screen in the car.
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