16GB iPhone and 32GB iPod Touch Released
The rumors aren’t rumors anymore peoples. Steve-O chose Super Tuesday to release freshly bloated versions of the devices that everybody loves to hate, or hates to love. Available immediately from the Apple Store, the new iPhone and iPod Touch have each received a substantial storage capacity upgrade. In fact, Apple doubled the size of each. The 16GB iPhone and the 32GB iPod Touch both ring up at a hefty $499 and Apple’s site says they will ship in the next one to three days. Existing versions of each device are still available and their price tags have not been affected. Variety is the spice of life and now you have two sizes of iPhone again and three sizes of iPod Touch to choose from. Whether or not Apple will drop smaller-capacity builds is not yet known. These new higher capacity portables could be quite telling in terms of a time line to the next generation iPhone. Initial rumors of the "iPhone 2" time line probably place its release a bit early considering that the brand new inflated version and the upcoming SDK will surely have to simmer for a while. After all, Apple is hardly known to cannibalize potential sales. Our sincerest sympathy to those of you who picked up an iPhone or iPod Touch for the holidays less than two months ago. Steve loves you!
Still Waiting for US 3G and official third party apps.
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Wow now my 8 gig Touch looks really bad.
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Still no cameraless iPhone…meh
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i agree, i could have put a payment on a 32 gig ,darn
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$499 is a little steep but there’s my 32GB iPod Touch. For once Steve does something usefull, or at least, that I like.
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This has probably already been discussed at length somewhere, but has anyone noticed that Apple basically entered the PDA market with the iPod Touch? That’s a contrarian move if I ever saw one …
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I wonder how long until people start wining again to Apple, demanding something for releasing a bigger phone that’s cheaper per GB than the originals?
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Ther already whining no hsdpa radios. An high price
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still no 3g just means the iPhone is a bigger piece of crap. come on apple, step into reality and give us a 3g iPhone.
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I seriously just bought a 16GB iPod Touch last night righ before best buy closed. FUCK! This happend to me when I got my iPod Mini too. The nano came out like a week later. And when I bought my first iMac, OS X 10.3 shipped with it. 3 weeks later, Apple put out OS X 10.4. Apple, you are killing me here.
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Best Buy (like most stores) has a 30 day return policy even if opened as long as you have the packaging materials you should be fine.
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I’ll buy one after the sdk comes out. Any u2 ipod touch?
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Still waiting for the 3G iPhone with real GPS.
Hoping the 3G iPhone has real GPS and 32GB’s of storage
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I really want an ipod touch so I can replace my 30 gig ipod video (which I payed 300 for) but 499 is a lot. And I know I can get a smaller one but I rather have all my music and vids on my ipod at one time and the 8 and 16 dont do that.
I have a question, I have wifi at home which is fine but is it easy to find a spot while ur out and about?
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To expensive and to late. Where’s my Zune?
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Just what everyones been wanting… they do everything so secretly, they’ve introduced more products and improvements in the first two months of this year than Microsoft has in the past 5…
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There are millions (literally) wifi zones at households everywhere, more so in populous areas. Most of them, however, dont have strong signal, or are locked with a password, that sometimes takes a couple of swipes up the keyboard to figure out. If you have it in your house, its a little pointless because you have your computer, but is cool if you want to sit on the couch and search the web without a laptop.
When your out, you may come up to a nice wifi spot, where you can enjoy youtube videos and everything else the pod has to offer. You may want to check if your work area has wifi in case. And lastly, you can go outside of an apple store, and they have free, great wifi that will please your needs… But just go out on the road with the touch, and you’ll notice the long list of wifi connections available.
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I just picked up a 160GB ipod classic a week ago and I’m pretty happy about it. Personally iphone/touch 1.0 is just not worth it. 3G, 32GB iPhone is the only option that seems worth buying.
As a MAC user I am getting pretty tired of the jobsman bending me and other MAC users over. Really now intro new models every 6 months and we might as well never buy one, too much too fast in the upgrade dept.
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How about A2DP stereo bluetooth support on the iPod touch and iPhone??? Ugh, still hasn’t happened!
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Meh…I’ll wait till Steve decides to give the consumer a 80gb or higher touch. 32gb still will not hold everything I have. I am sure I’ll have to wait close to a year to see any higher gb touch announcement. Tragic….
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Every time Jobs updates the iPhone, you should use that photo of the asian guy pumping his fist in the air after he waited 1000 hours in line for his 8GB 1st gen iPhone
Serves you smug Apple a**holes right — you are all Steve’s b*tches!
Keep holding your ankles, he’s not done yet…
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you guys are idiots, what electronics company doesnt update their products? This happens in every industry, you get what you get they have no obligation to keep making the exact same products just to appease you.
And most estimates put new iphone in late summer, thats been out there since late last year.
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