My wife has an iPod Touch and she’s always behind in updates and new features because she feels she’s like a red headed step child when it comes to update from Apple. She is not alone. I don’t understand why Apple treats the iPod Touch so much different from their more hyped iPhone. Sure it makes them more money and gets all the media attention. Add a built in mic and bluetooth and the iPod Touch can be a phone too, via Skype.
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Microsoft’s new Zune will have quite an impressive list of features. First of all, for anyone thinking it’ll have HD video, this can be misleading. It is HD radio with an option of HD video OUTPUT. It will be running Windows CE underneath. On the surface, it will have an OLED touch screen interface with a 16:9 widescreen format on a 3.3 inch screen. Aside from this, it will have built-in full screen internet browser with accelerometer and a touch screen QWERTY keyboard.
Everything so far has gotten the iPod Touch beat with the exception of iTunes. This is where Apple’s true value lies. You pay for the device once but iTunes will keep making them money as long as there are things to see, hear, and play with on there.
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From early reports on the net, it looks like the new iphone will be called the iphone 3G S. It also is revealed that it will come in many colors. Black, White, Orange, Blue, Plaid, Green, and yellow seems to be the new flavors it will be available at launch. Also in unrelated news, Steve Jobs will be returning to work this month.
I know this years WWDC will have many things revealed. I am particularly excited about OSX Snow Leopard and Iphone SDK 3.0.
