New Apple iPod Touch - a new toy for the iPod generation

Now girls, don’t mistake this for the iPhone nor blame me for putting an iPhone image on the iPod Touch write-up. This is the real and the latest one from the line of Apple iPods. This week's launch included the arrival of this sixth-generation player, which actually offers wireless internet access. The much-awaited iPod Touch features an 8.9cm touchscreen and integrated wi-fi connection, allowing users to connect to the internet from an iPod for the first time. Based on the popular iPhone, but without the mobile phone function, it uses touchscreen technology instead of buttons and dials. Other treats are built-in with Safari, YouTube and the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store. Even if its not hard-drive based, it sports an 8-mm-thick hardware design.

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Apparently Steve Jobs' Safari and YouTube demo were too fast on the new Touch, with the videos streaming in real time. iPod Touch boasts of 22 hours of battery playing music, 5 hours of video. Mr Jobs described the iPod Touch as "a landmark" device that would usher in "a whole new generation of features based on its revolutionary multi-touch interface and built-in wi-fi wireless networking". Now that so much is said about this ‘beauty with brains’, you will definitely want to know how much it’s gonna rip your wallets of. Well it will be out in two sizes 8GB and 16GB for $299 and $399 respectively. Did you read this? It means an iPhone without the phone and now at the same price since the first-time $200 price-cut (for iPhone) for Christmas?