Sep 9th, 2009 from ipodrepublic.com
Following todays announcement from Apple what was believed to be the banker of the event, the 3rd generation iPod Touch with camera, did not happen. The iPod Touch 3G, if you wish to call it that, did instead receive an upgrade to 64gb and improved processing speed for an improved overall performance, and importantly, a price drop.
For months we have all been talking about the 3rd generation iPod Touch getting a camera similar to the iPhone 3GS, instead it was the iPod Nano that will receive the camera, whilst the upgrades to the iPod Touch have more to do with performance, as the two top models will become 50 percent faster than the current model and have support for Open GL|ES version 2.0, the cross platform graphics API. This is probably also the reason why Apple in their precentation of the iPod Touch focused so much on the new games that will be made available on iTunes App Store, including EA’s Madden NFL 2010.
Apple could share sales figures for the iPod Touch of over 20 million units sold worldwide since its launch, making it the iPod platform of the future, and how the iPod Touch is changing the mobile gaming industry.
With the dissappointment of many that it did not feature a camera, for now, Apple could share the good news that they are lowering the price point of the 3rd generation iPod Touch. This was also expected as some competitors have launched at a lower price point, and the current iPod Touch prices was probably a bit too close to the price of the iPhone.
The new US prices for the iPod Touch models are as follows:
8GB iPod Touch - $199
32GB iPod Touch - $299
64GB iPod Touch - $399
The UK prices from Apple are as follows:
8GB iPod Touch -£149
32GB iPod Touch -£229
64GB iPod Touch -£299
The 16GB iPod Touch was actually not mentioned so perhaps it is actually being removed from the line up. We will update with UK prices as soon as we have updates from the other merchants in our best price iPod Touch table.
The iPod Touch will also get the free upgrade to iPhone OS 3.1 that was announced and is available in iTunes now. This upgrade brings amongst other improvements to Genius functionality.
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