Month: September 2007

DigiTimes vouches for multi-touch iPod with WiFi

Apple’s announcements on Wednesday will indeed include a next-generation iPod video with a touch-control interface, according to DigiTimes.

Citing sources at Taiwan-based contract manufacturers, the Far Eastern rumor publication reports that the “new iPod video will also come with a wide-screen panel, high storage capacity and Wi-Fi connectivity.”

AppleInsider reports that the new iPod will instead employ NAND flash-based storage.

Apple is reportedly outsourcing the production of the new iPod video to Taiwan-based Inventec Appliances, which is expected to start volume shipments by the end of this month or in early October.

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Major electronics launch; new iPods & iPhones

Target gears up for new iPod launches

An internal note distributed to employees of the large retailer’s electronics department is advising them to be ready for an unknown, but very significant, product announcement on Wednesday for which Target will be one of the first resellers.In a copy provided to AppleInsider, the memo is vague and notes that one or more “high retail” (high profile) and “high theft” products will ship directly to Target outlets almost immediately after their formal introduction on September 5th. The products would arrive between Thursday and Saturday, but would be of sufficiently high priority that it might reach shops outside of normal hours at the shipping docks, Target said.While there is no name attached to the manufacturer of the products involved in the launch, it wouldn’t take much speculation to link Target’s preparations with Apple’s special event on Wednesday, which is expected to introduce several next-generation iPods.

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Major electronics launch; new iPods & iPhones; Apple lobbying

Target gears up for new iPod launchesAn internal note distributed to employees of the large retailer’s electronics department is advising them to be ready for an unknown, but very significant, product announcement on Wednesday for which Target will be one of the first resellers.In a copy provided to AppleInsider, the memo is vague and notes that one or more “high retail” (high profile) and “high theft” products will ship directly to Target outlets almost immediately after their formal introduction on September 5th. The products would arrive between Thursday and Saturday, but would be of sufficiently high priority that it might reach shops outside of normal hours at the shipping docks, Target said.While there is no name attached to the manufacturer of the products involved in the launch, it wouldn’t take much speculation to link Target’s preparations with Apple’s special event on Wednesday, which is expected to introduce several next-generation iPods.Newspaper claims iPhone nano, iPod Wi-Fi in the pipelineCiting documents obtained by a company partnered with Apple, the Washington Post‘s Sam Diaz claimed in a weekend article that at least two frequently rumored devices were planned for the “coming months.”One of these would be a touchscreen iPod with Wi-Fi, Diaz said. But the Cupertino, Calif.-based company was also planning an “iPhone nano,” which would drop prices below the $500 mark of the current iPhone.Diaz provided no details of when either product would arrive in stores, but has made his claims just ahead of Apple’s September 5th iPod-related event. The update also reinforces AppleInsider‘s reliable sources which pointed to a smaller iPhone likely to ship sometime in the fall.iPod case maker preps for new video iPodIn one of the more unusual accessory announcements of recent years, Uniea has revealed a new hard leather case that would protect the new, shorter video capable iPod — even though the iPod itself is still a mystery.Simply listed as a Hard Protective Leather Case “for new iPod,” the design leaked to iLounge would accommodate a wide, larger than 2-inch screen but a click wheel identical to that of the iPod nano. Its launch date is unknown but will see several different color variants sell for $30 each.

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Review: New iMac’s and keyboards

Since I went to the Apple Store today, and spent over an hour using the new iMac’s and keyboards, I think it is time for a review! Lets start with the new iMac’s.

The latest iteration of the Apple iMac ($1,499 direct, $1,649 with 1GB of RAM) comfortably straddles the worlds of consumer and business. It’s the fourth generation of the popular system, if you count the first as the CRT G3 iMacs, the second as the “Luxo-style” iMac G4, and the third as the white plastic iMac G5 and Intel systems. Though the last white iMac was marketed as the “consumer Mac” (the Mac Pro was the “professional Mac”), the latest iMac doesn’t fall into the pigeonholes of “business” or “consumer.” Its aluminum and black appearance can work in the home, next to your iPhone, or in the office next to your Aeron chair. With its Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows compatibility, it is certainly the “computer for the rest of us,” making good on the promises put forth in the original “1984” Macintosh ads.

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