New iPods Released

Now as much as I love the Apple and their products, the new iPods are kinda whack. New Nano..."Fatty"...if they had brought out a 16GB version in line with the current price point, say £180-200, it would have been a no-brainer for me. But this is just a revision to the current version, adding video, which I don't particularly want on a 2inch screen anyway. The new interface is all nice and stuff but I'm not gonna buy a new one just for that, sorry Apple. Shame.

The "Classic" iPod. 160GB storage is nice and would even hold my entire collection(!). But I'm no fan of the hard-disk iPods, too many failures I've heard of, plus, they are big and looking a bit long in the teeth nowadays.

The "new" iPod Touch. What, an iPhone without the phone part? Why would I really want that? I could get an iPhone for a similar price, and then I don't have to carry around 2 gadgets. The major mistake they made here, if they had included a HARD DRIVE instead of flash memory, this would have been massive (not that it won't be anyway). But 16GB...not gonna shell out the cash for basically a touchscreen ipod. Even if it does suft the net. Which is nice.

So....I awaited quite excited to see what was coming yesterday at the Apple event, and came away pretty disappointed. Damn. Where is my 16GB/32GB iPod Nano? Maybe 6 months down the line, in v2.0 of the fatty. Then Apple, you will get my £200.