Apple just announced a total refresh of their iPod line, bumping up storage capacity across the board. The little Shuffle is the only one without more storage (still at 1 GB), but the Nano now has a nice screen (with movies) and 4 or 8 GB of flash storage. The disk-based iPod (now the “Classic”) has 80 or 160 GB in a thinner package. And Apple repurposed most of the iPhone as the “iPod Touch” with 8 or 16 GB of flash (wish I had that in mine!), WiFi, and Safari.
And what better to do with WiFi than buy songs over the air, possibly while sitting in Starbucks? That’s right, not only can we burn up our credit cards wirelessly from our iPod Touches (that name sounds kinda creepy now that I think about it) or iPhones (yeah, they’re supported too) but we get Starbucks integration to boot! You’ll get a little green mermaid whenever you walk in and can download whatever song is on the air (as long as you’re in one of the few stores that will have added this feature before 2010).
Oh, yeah, one more thing… The 4 GB iPhone has been dropped and the 8-gigger is now $200 cheaper at $399. Now that I’ve had one for a month, I can tell you this. You know how people hype new products and you say “it can’t possibly be that great…” Well, the iPhone is that great. Seriously. Buy two. Uh oh, now I sound like Fake Fake Steve Jobs…
With all this glorious NAND flash rolling out of Cupertino, it’s safe to assume that supplies will be tight for a while…
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