All The Aussie iPod Info In One Handy Place
In case you missed it, Apple announced new updated iPods overnight. Here are all the local details…
Starting with the iPod Touch, the 8GB model will sell for $269, with the 32GB costing $399 and the 64GB set at $549.
The iPod Shuffle now starts at $79 for 2GB, or $109 for a 4GB model. It comes in the same five colours as the US.
The new Nano starts at $199 for 8GB or $249 for 16GB, and is available in silver, black, purple, blue, green, orange, yellow, (PRODUCT) RED and pink.
iTunes 9 and iPhone 3.1 updates are available now as well. iPod Touch owners with software older than 3.0 will have to spring $5.99 for the iPhone update though.
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hey Nick, are the 8GB & 16GB ipod nanos the same price as before? just with added video cameras?
can anybody answer this??
cool.
Where is the 16GB ipod touch?
Also is there any tech specs for the new ipod touches?
Thanks for the prices.
A $400 32gb ipod touch with the same specs as the iphone 3gs really does make the $450 psp go a massive joke!
It looks like Apple has killed the 16GB iPod Touch. Not just for Australia either…
I completely agree with you on the PSPGo’s price point, but I consider the PSP on a completely different level than the iPod Touch/iPhone. I play ‘real’ games on my PSP, ones where I’ll play for more than 10 minutes at a time, that I can control with buttons.
I play quick easy/casual/simple games on my iPhone, like Peggle/Puzzle Quest/Bloons.
They’re both good gaming platforms, but for completely different types of game experiences.
What about the iPod Classic? Didn’t they increase the capacity while keeping the same price… or something?
Has that happened in AU yet?
I hate the living in Australia Tax. I can understand a +- 5% for currency variance but seriously some of these have a 20% markup over the American price.
Just saw the Big W price list,they all will be the same price as current gen, and the big stores should be getting stock today, tomorrow, last gen eg ones on sale now are on clearance huge savings! prices will go live tomorrow morning (11/9/09)
Still no indication that Apple will ever give the iPod a real Play Queue! I can’t believe that Apple have ignored such a major safety issue for so long. We may neven know how many people have died because of this.
Don’t see the issue? Here’s an example.
Dave, like many people his age, likes to listen to albums rather than singles or random tracks. He’s listening to an Al Stewart album when he realises he needs to go to work. He’d like to make sure he doesn’t need to fiddle with his iPod while driving, but he doesn’t want to skip the remaining tracks (the best tracks of the album). On any sensible player, he’d just queue up another album on the current play queue. But on the iPod, he can only press and hold the middle button to add another track or album to the USELESS On-The-Go Playlist, which takes minutes of fiddling to access (especially on a hard disk based iPod more than a few months old). So just as he does everytime, he does nothing until the album ends. Then, in the middle of traffic, he selects another album and start it playing. Of course, eventually he does this once to often, and is distracted when the traffic does something unexpected.
Apple, do it right! You can still have on-the-go playlist functionality with a couple of minor changes. When you press play when a track or album is highlighted, clear the play queue, add the track or album to it, and start playing. When you press and hold the middle button when a track or album is highlighted, add it to the current play queue. Simple. And may save lives.