Two configurations: 8GB and 16GB. The 8GB costs $299, while the 16GB will cost $399. Both models will be available this month.
Apple lines up new IpodsScrews early adoptersBy Wily Ferret: Thursday 06 September 2007, 07:48APPLE revealed an entirely new lineup of Ipods last night - as well as a stonking $200 price cut for the Iphone, a move sure to aggravate those who paid full price merely days ago.Speaking at the Moscone Centre - home to many a West Coast conference, including our old favourite, the Intel Developer Forum - Jobs rolled out new Itunes store features as well as the devices themselves. On the list:A new Ipod nano, which now supports video on its 320x240 screen. It's tiny, has a high pixel density, and looks rather plump. Five pastel colours, 4 and 8GB.The traditional Ipod is now renamed the Ipod classic, has a massive new 160GB option, and is now silver and black metal.The much-predicted 'Iphone without the phone' also made an appearance in the guise of the Ipod touch. It's slightly thinner and shorter than the Iphone but has all the same music and video features, as well as WiFi browsing and YouTube. There are 8 and 16GB capacies.Finally, the Iphone got a $200 price cut, going from $599 to $399 for the 8GB version, with the 4GB ugly step-sister being shunted out of the door.Apple also unveiled the WiFi iTunes store, allowing music fans to purchase content, via WiFi, from their Ipod touch or Iphone, then sync it back to the computer. This was announced in collaboration with Starbucks, which will allow purchasing of music currently playing in the coffeehouse you're sat in, as well as free WiFi access to the store whilst in a Starbucks cafe.Reaction has been mixed - analysts knocked a few percent of the stock price last night amid fears that Iphone is not proving as much a success as hoped for, with the price cut likely knocking out all of Apple's profit margin and leaving Iphone revenue purely as the AT&T subscription kick back. Fans have flocked to the Ipod touch, but derision for the nano 'phatty' is amost universal. Who wants to watch video on such a tiny screen?Of course, those who are most irate are the Apple fanboys, the early adopters - the ones who stood in line for days to pick up an Iphone, only to be screwed to the tune of $200 mere weeks after the event. We always knew Jobs was a ruthless customer, but messing with your own fanboys is taking it to a whole new level.
AT&T is cruising for a bruisingBut then the Baby Bells are gonners, init?!?By Nick Farrell: Monday 10 September 2007, 07:53A HUMAN called Jay Levy says he has been stung by Apple's iPhone pact with AT&T after he took an Iphone on a Mediterranean cruise.They didn't use their phones, but when they got back they had a 54-page monthly bill of nearly $4,800 from AT&T Wireless.The problem was that their three Iphones were racking up a bill for data charges using foreign phone charges. The Iphone regularly updates e-mail, even while it's off, so that all the messages will be available when the user turns it on.Levy is fuming, claiming that Apple and AT&T were acting like a bank which has automatic access to your ATM machine and is siphoning money out during all times of the day and night.Normally it does not cost US users for domestic data transfers, but the Iphone's international plan in 29 countries, mostly in Europe, costs $24.99 for 20 megabytes.Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris points out in its terms and conditions that it will cost an arm an a leg to use an Iphone out of the US even if no services are intentionally used.
