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what's up everyone jon rettinger from technobuffalo here today September 9 applehead there it's all a rock and roll keynote address which is highlighted by some hardware and software updates Steve Jobs stage and looked that as healthy as usual so good news for all the Apple and jobs fans out there so the big news really was in the ipod line let me go ahead and get started and tell you what happened I've got some notes here since this guy keynote just ended so excuse me if I look down or away for a few moments first there are updates to the ipod touch line but not the updates we were all expecting no camera was found on the back of the ipod touch perhaps that will come later or not at all but we did see what some storage increases and price drops you can now get a 1 99 ipod touch with a gigabytes of storage not bad you can get a 32 gig for 299 which is probably going to be the sweet spot for a lot of people and a new 64 gig for 399 so that's a lot of storage a lot of video or a lot of apps on your ipod touch other than that really nothing revolutionary or exciting here the next was a bump to the classic or on the bump on the ipod classic it went 250 gigs same price 249 nothing terribly exciting there was not killed it was just bumped up in welcome spent next was the shuffle you're getting kind of a slew of new colors and you also got some fresh drops as well which are always good news 59 bucks is going to get you a two gig model where 79 is going to get you four give other that's the same buttonless design with the voice-over control and all that business the big news and actually the one more thing announcement was to the ipod nano which now has a video camera on the back keeps the same very slim design but has a slew of new features so you're now getting a video camera on the back you're getting a built-in money on the back you're getting built in speakers on the back you're also getting voice over technology the same stuff that's found on the ipod shuffle you're getting a voice recorder that you can see on the iphone or the ipod touch you're now getting an FM radio so the Nano is the first ipod to feature any sort of radio transmitter so i'm cool if you're into that it also has a pedometer and if you hear that noise in the background that's the collective crap i think that the flip video company is dropping right now at the thought of losing a tremendous amount of market share to Apple on this new sort of video camera in your pocket type thing so price-wise these things are actually really good coming in at 149 for an eight gig model or 179 for a 16 gig model now you're not getting Wi-Fi but you can upload right to YouTube soon as you plug it into your computer shoot a lot of video plug it in uploaded right to YouTube you know quite nice it's also going to come in a slew of new colors so if you're an ipod nano fan or you're looking at maybe getting a flip flip video or a flip ultra flip HD you may want to take a look at the nanos as well as you do your comparison shopping since these are just announced I've got yet to actually see one and talk about the video quality but I will have a new nano to be doing some head to head comparisons with some video quality for you apple also announced itunes nine which has some cool new features let me go ahead and share with you what those are you've got improved store navigation including a persistent navigation menu you really get an hour more of a streamlined UI which seems per user interface which is quite nice you're getting full a window itunes store so those times when the side barrage is too much for you can now get the store in a full window no that was a complaint with a lot of people you can preview from anywhere in the store you don't have to really drill down anymore to preview itunes LP which sort of this new thing that iTunes is doing which is including some extras with the music you're downloading their videos booklets pictures think of it as like the extras on a DVD or blu-ray you're also now getting genius mixes more and more advanced genius playlist really nothing revolutionary in there but you are getting served some improved functionality you're now getting an app management for your iphone which is quite nice as well you'll be able to sort of control your apps right from itunes now let's think a long time coming you can drag and drop to move certain apps to on pages which is very nice you can also now you a home sharing which name of you to share your video your music or your pictures within five computers on the same same home I assume that's probably gonna be limited to the same Wi-Fi network but now you can actually share downloaded videos which is quite nice and downloaded with apples crazy restrictive drm you can now set items in the iTunes Store as gifts add them to a wish list and even publish them to Facebook and thinking of which there's now integration with Facebook and Twitter so you can send out to your friends what you're watching what you just bought or whatever what other iTunes related information you think they might be interested in and it'll be available starting today also apple announced iphone OS 3.1 which is going to have app store genius capability so it'll tell you sort of a list of apps that you might like based on what you've downloaded and bought I'm you know I'm not so sure that I'm going to go run out and download a free point run one right away it seems like that's the only real edition is the genius playlist if that's important to you go ahead and get downloading that would be available today as well that was a recap of the event sort of all the rumors that were building up to it and in true form turned out to be just rumors really didn't get most of what no the press was expecting so you know I guess that's par for the course was a little bit of a boring keynote wasn't anything that was a very wow inspiring a lot of price drops which is great and two new features to existing hardware anyway 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