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For six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul

Monday, July 19, 2004

Apple Introduces the New iPod

Apple: "Apple today introduced the new iPod, the fourth generation of the world’s number one portable digital music player, featuring Apple’s patent pending Click Wheel, which combines the smooth and continuous scrolling of a touch-sensitive wheel with five push buttons for superior one handed navigation. The new iPod also features up to 12 hours battery life and Shuffle Songs, a new command in the main menu which gives users instant access to one of the most exciting new ways to listen to their music library. All iPods work effortlessly with Apple’s iTunes, providing music fans with the best digital jukebox on either a Mac or Windows computer and access to the iTunes Music Store, the number one digital music service in the world. The new iPod is available immediately in a 20GB model for $299 and a 40GB model for $399."

Just a note for anyone interested in these things: The new "iPod Click Wheel," as Apple calls the new generation device, doesn't work with the iPod dock used by previous generation iPods, and the 20 GB model does not include the dock, so you'll have to spend an extra $39 on the dock if you get the lower-end model (and want/need it). You can view the technical differences between the different iPod models here. One thing I'm interested in seeing is that Apple appears to bundle separate Firewire and USB 2.0 cables now; I wonder if this means that the 4G iPod can trickle-charge off of USB finally?

Also, my own news story about this release is available now on WinInfo.

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