Apple Lowers iPhone Price, Intros New iPod Touch, nano

Apple just announced that they were lowering the price of the 8GB iPhone from $599 to just $399. The 8GB iPhone is available immediately for $399 in the US through Apple’s retail and online stores and AT&T retail stores. The iPhone 4GB model will be sold while supplies last.

Also announced is the new iPod touch with built-in Wi-Fi networking and a multi-touch user interface—first introduced on iPhone—that makes it easy to find all of your music, video, and other digital content and enjoy it on the widescreen display of the iPod touch. The multi-touch interface uses new software to present the perfect user interface for Safari, Apple’s YouTube application, and the new iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store. The 8mm thin, iPod touch features up to 22 hours of audio playback and up to five hours of video playback. Available later this month, iPod touch comes in 8GB and 16GB models for $299 and $399, respectively.

Forget the nano? Nah..
Apple just announced the new iPod nano, which now brings video playback, an enhanced user interface featuring Cover Flow, and a new design to the music player. Featuring a larger two-inch display with 204 pixels per inch, the new iPod nano lets you watch your favorite movies, TV shows, and music videos in the same resolution available on the current video iPod. iPod nano comes with three games (iQuiz, Vortex, and Klondike), and you can purchase and download other games from the iTunes Store. Encased in a new all-metal design, iPod nano comes in five new colors—silver, black, blue, green and a (PRODUCT) RED special edition. Available today, iPod nano comes in 4GB and 8GB models, selling for just $149 and $199, respectively.

Apple also announced a new shuffle with 1GB of storage as well as the new iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store which allows you to wirelessly browse, search, preview, purchase, and download songs or albums to your iPhone or iPod touch; then immediately listen to your new music after it downloads. Once you get back to your Mac or PC, iTunes automatically recognizes the new music and syncs it with your existing library.

If that’s not enough, you can now create your own custom ringtones in iTunes with the new built-in ringtone maker. Create ringtones by selecting a segment, up to 30-seconds long, from more than one million participating songs. After creating your new ringtone, and setting custom fade-in and fade-out points, you can easily sync it to iPhone. It costs just $.99 (in addition to the cost of a new song) to create a 30-second segment from iTunes. You can also create ringtones for $.99 from participating songs you’ve already purchased and downloaded into your iTunes library.

For more information visit www.apple.com

SOURCE Apple