Well, Apple came out with new iPods this week. They’ve refreshed their entire lineup. Well, Steve Jobs said they refreshed the iPod shuffle, but frankly they just changed the colors. Not a big refresh. The iPod Nano however looks completely different. It has an brand new shaped and a new UI. I think it’s my favorite. Mostly because I don’t have a huge music library and I don’t do a lot of bus-type commuting. I would like to have a couple of T.V. shows in my pocket at any given time and the new iPod Nano would hit the spot. The next generation of iPod has been named the “iPod classic.” It also sports the new iPod UI and has the following capacities: 80GB and 160GB. This is a nice player, but lacks a large enough screen to reasonably watch a long movie. The last and final iPod is the iPod Touch. It’s basically an iPhone without the phone. I don’t know how big of a hit it will be given that it only has a 100 dollar price difference from the iPhone. I suppose there are a lot of people who don’t want to pay the cell phone bill and that is probably would drive them to buy the iPod Touch. The unfortunate part about the iPod Touch is the smallish capacities: 8GB and 16GB. This isn’t a lot when considering the best feature of the iPod Touch is the brilliantly large and beautiful screen. It makes it hard to pack around a good movie collection with only 8 or 16GB. My ideal would be an iPod Touch with a 160GB hard drive and 50 hours of battery life for video.

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