If you’ve visited Apple’s website today, you can’t have missed the massive tease that Apple is currently running on its homepage.
The speculation is that there is some announcement due on streaming or cloud services for iTunes, although the smart money is on a Beatles related announcement tomorrow, a glaring omission from the iTunes catalogue at the moment.
Have an iPod or iPhone? Then you need this. The Clickfree transformer allows you to transfer files to and from your device with little or no hassle.
Mobile music doesn’t have to be poor quality. Imagine if you could make any surface into a speaker big and powerful enough to blast out your iPod’s music at a level that kept you happy, while still remaining portable. Tunebug Vibe does exactly that.
Audiophiles will tell you that you can’t beat vinyl when it comes to the quality of recorded music, that digital music is cold and soulless in comparison. Digital files though can be far more convenient, leaving music fans in a bit of a quandary.
If you’ve embraced the idea of digital audio, you probably have a large collection of MP3s on your laptop or portable hard drive, a folder full of downloaded podcasts and got your head around internet radio. But who wants to be tied to their computer?
Bose’s Soundlink opens your music collection to a wider audience. Your laptop is relegated to the role of intermediary, grabbing MP3 files, internet radio, podcasts or whatever other audio content you want to hear, and sending it to the wireless Soundlink.
It could have all been so great. A new internet service that allowed you to pick and choose which songs you want to listen to and discover new ones, all at your own leisure, from your own laptop. Spotify has taken off, quickly becoming an internet darling.
The dust hasn’t even settled yet and already the PR bandwagon is rumbling. Firstpress release based on last night’s cruel defeat is an iPod speaker. The tag line?
A football you can touch with your hand – even if you aren’t French.
Get ready for the new announcements, folks. The Apple event has kicked off and already we have iTunes 9, and updated iPhone software. Hopefully it will address the poor battery life on the iPhone.
iPods now come with cameras too, apparently.
UPDATE In bullet points to keep it simple.
The iPod Nano:
iPod Touch:
Irish pricing will be updated as soon as I get it.
More later
The free Spotify gravy train has finished for Irish users. For the time being, anyway. I found this in my inbox this morning:
Two new music phones were announced by Nokia at Nokia World in Stuttgart yesterday, expanding the “Comes With Music” line a little futher.
First up: the X3.
