It’s very much established that the iPod touch is like an iPhone without the phone (and around half the memory and a weaker battery), but with this new accessory, you can fix all that. (Except for the memory part). Called the Apple Peel 520, this accessory looks like a protective case for the iPod touch, but adds a SIM card slot, extra battery pack and dock connector that can turn your iPod touch into a smartphone without having to sign up for a two-year contract.
iPhone owners still stuck on iOS 4.0.1 shouldn’t have to wait long to update to the latest firware: there’s already word out that hacker pod2g managed to get a bootrom-based exploit to work on all iOS devices (iPod touch, iPhone and iPad) running the latest iOS 4.1 firmware. What that means is that jailbreakers shouldn’t have to wait long to update to 4.1. Also, while it might not be as ridiculously easy-to-do as the Jailbreakme’s slide-to-jailbreak method, a bootrom exploit won’t be easily patched by Apple, either. At least for people who already own an existing iDevice; Apple could still patch up the 2kpwn bootrom exploit used here on newer devices.
If you own an iPhone or iPod, you’re probably aware of the Nike+ iPod feature that basically acts like a high-tech workout tracker/ pedometer for fitness junkies. Or, fitness junkies who can afford the whole kit that includes the $29 Nike+ iPod Sport Kit, a pair of Nike+ shoes that come with a tiny pocket for slipping the Sport Kit into, and an iPod nano, touch, or iPhone 3GS. Nike just came out with a new app called Nike+ GPS that’ll let you leave the iPod Sport Kit and even the shoes at home.
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).
