Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch Updates

Apple's updates for the iPhone and iPod Touch enable more customization and outfit each device with a handful of new features, making both gadgets much more useful and fun.

Apple Announces Major Software Upgrade for iPod touch

MACWORLD SAN FRANCISCO—January 15, 2008—Apple® today announced a major software upgrade for the iPod® touch, making the best iPod into even more—the world’s best Wi-Fi mobile device. iPod touch customers already have the most advanced mobile web browser in the world with Safari™, and now Apple is adding five more great mobile applications—Mail, Maps, Stocks, Weather and Notes. The iPod touch software upgrade also includes new features such as Web Clips, a customizable home screen and beginning today, the ability to watch iTunes® Movie Rentals. New iPod touch products shipping from the factory will include the software upgrade and existing iPod touch customers can get the software upgrade for $19.99 by purchasing and downloading it from iTunes (www.itunes.com).

First Looks: Speck ArmorSkin for iPod classic, iPod touch + iPhone

Finally, the iPod classic ($30), iPod touch ($30), and iPhone ($30) versions of one of the coolest-looking iPod nano cases -- Speck's ArmorSkin -- have arrived. Each version is a little different from the others, with the iPod classic version having the most in common with its nano predecessor: classic comes with a hard plastic front shield, a grid textured rubber back and side casing, and an insert to make the 160GB classic-sized case fit the smaller…

First Looks: Speck TransPort for iPhone & iPod touch

Made from two separate pieces, Speck's TransPort for iPhone & iPod touch ($35) is a flip-closed case designed to mount either of Apple's touchscreen devices on the shoulder strap of a bag, or a belt. You can pull off the front flap if you don't want to use it, transforming the case into a holster....

Article: Does iPhone SDK mark the end of Click Wheel iPod Gaming?

When Apple announced the iPhone Software Development Kit in early March, game developers were nearly unanimous in praising the tools, iTunes-focused distribution methodology, and opportunities Apple was providing to their community: the iPhone and iPod touch, they made clear, were going to be exciting new gaming platforms, and companies such as Electronic Arts, Sega, and Gameloft were quick to commit to releasing new titles. But what, we wondered,…

Apple Adds New iPhone & iPod touch Models

CUPERTINO, California—February 5, 2008—Apple® today added new models of the iPhone™ and iPod® touch which have double the memory, doubling the amount of music, photos and videos that customers can carry with them wherever they go. The revolutionary iPhone now comes in a new 16GB model for $499, joining the 8GB model for $399. iPod touch now comes in a 32GB model for $499, joining the 16GB model for $399 and the 8GB model for $299.