Philips has teamed up with sports apparel brand O’Neill, coming up with a line of headphones for active, outdoorsy-types—basically, the exact same people who are familiar with and most likely use O’Neill’s gear. The new line includes four models; two over-ear cans called The Stretch and The Snug, and two in-ear ‘phones, The Covert and The Specked. Awesome stuff, really. Gear that you have to consider if you fit the Philips-O’Neill target market.
We already know what they’re all about, more or less. But if you wanted to see the new iPod touch and nano—a.k.a: the tiny touchscreened iPod—in action, Apple just uploaded the new iPod ads on their YouTube channel. Again, there’s really nothing new on the iPod touch—it’s still basically a lighter, sleeker iPhone 4 without the phone, but with all the awesomeness that the 4’s Retina Display, FaceTime and iOS 4.1 provides. The new nano is a different story though; it’s all-new and, save for the fact that it plays music and syncs via iTunes, could have been named something totally different and it wouldn’t matter. The nano video after the break.
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So it’s finally, officially official: Steve Jobs just introduced Apple’s new iPod lineup for 2010, including a completely redesigned iPod shuffle, iPod nano, and iPod touch. No updates for the iPod classic, but since it’s still up on the store page, it’s safe to assume that our hard drive-based music player of choice hasn’t gone extinct yet.
Nothing much by way of big surprises (thanks to a load of early photo and info leaks), but a lot of stuff—stuff that we all just naturally assumed—was definitely confirmed. In fact, we’ll just go go ahead and say that all the iPod touch leaks totally ruined the surprise, because apparently, all the rumors were true: it’s kind of like the iPhone 4, but with less bulk (it’s around 2mms slimmer), no phone (of course), and since it doesn’t come with a wrap-around antenna, no antennagate issues (we’re almost certain of it. Kind of).
Apple will be streaming their music-themed event live from the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco (10am, Pacific), which we all expect to be where they officially unveil their new iPod lineup and the new Apple TV (or iTV), iOS 4.1 for iPhone, and the iOS 4 for the iPad. The white iPhone could make an appearance too.
Anyway, if you want to watch everything as it unfolds, you’re going to need a Mac with OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, an iPhone or iPod touch with iOS 3.0 or higher, or an iPad to watch the live stream. Windows and Android device-owners, you’re left out of this one. But that’s okay, since you obviously didn’t care that much about Apple products, right?
Philips just introduced the GoGear Connect, a touchscreen media player that can probably be worthy of rivaling the iPod touch in terms of apps thanks to its Android OS. We’re not saying that Microsoft’s Zune wasn’t “worthy,” but in terms of available apps you can you’d want to run, the GoGear Connect’s link to the Android Market is a very good thing.
