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In the page where Apple explains the features on the new iPod touch, one of the picture has a green colored phone app.

It looks like the screen shown in the iPod Touch is actually that of iPhone and the graphic designer did copy-paste of screens of iPhone to make the iPod Touch.

Apple’s hobby is no longer a hobby with the release of the current Apple TV. Steve Jobs hopes to make the hobby a business with the introduction of new device and cloud-based streaming of TV shows and movies.

Apple slashed the price of the current model by half and physical dimensions were slashed by more than a half. The tiny WiFi and Ethernet TV receiver sports the Apple A4 processor, the same processor used in iPhone, iPod Touch and iPads.

Apple TV can be used for film rentals, YouTube streaming, playing iTunes music and photos from from the computer, and comes with Apple Remote. iPhones and iPods can also act as remote on the WiFi network.

With the release of this model Apple has stepped into the cloud based movie rental business. For a price of $4.99 the  users can watch Hollywood movies. The 99-cent rentals of TV shows is only available for the TV shows of Walt Disney Co’s Disney/ABC Television Group and News Corp.’s 20th Century Fox for now. Previously, the TV shows on Apple devices used to cost as much as $2.99 an episode.

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Apple TV – More than a hobby now

Today Apple introduced a new social music network through iTunes 10 and named it Ping. Looking like a Facebook style social networking, Ping will work on iTunes, iPod touch, and iPhone. It is not clear if it will be available as a general webpage.

Jobs told that Apple had sold 11.7 billion songs, 450 million TV episodes, 100 million movies, 35 million books, and the store now features 160 million accounts. It sure does make sense on starting a social networking. But I would have been happier if it were a part of Facebook.

Regarding the privacy Jobs pointed out that Ping’s privacy settings are "super simple." iTunes 10 is not available for download yet.

The iPod nano has transformed itself to a touch screen mini iPod-touch with smaller form factor, multi-touch display, clip-on, shuffle, volume buttons, voiceover, Nike+, pedometer, and fm radio among others.

Some of the major features of the new and sexy nano are:

• Multi-touch display: To swipe the Home screen to browse your music by songs, albums, artists, playlists, genres, or composers. The album art of the song being played is displayed.
• Clip-on design: To make it portable and wearable.
• 24-hour battery life: The built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery gives you up to 24 hours of nonstop music.
• Shake to Shuffle: iPod nano’s shake shuffles to a different song in the music library.
• Genius Mixes
• FM Radio with Live Pause

Steve Jobs today unveiled a new and refreshed iPod touch with a lot of new features:

2 camera – front and back:

• Video recording, HD (720p) with audio. Still photos (960×720) with back camera
• VGA-quality photos and video with the front camera – FaceTime with other iPod touch and iPhone users
• Photo and video geo-tagging (Wi-Fi)
• iMovie application can edit the videos

Enhanced display:

• 3.5-inch (diagonal) widescreen – Multi-Touch display
• 960×640-px. resolution at 326 pix/in. (4 times the pixel count of previous iPod models)

A4 processor as the iPhone 4, TV shows and Movies rental, and 3-axis gyro are other additional features in the new iPod touch.

Apple announced that is has sold 275 million iPods till date.

The smallest of the iPods, iPod shuffle’s new model has buttons added. The model sports 15 hours of music and is available in five different colors. Price starting at $49 for 2 GB. The new shuffle can be considered the combination of previous two generations of the models.

To supplement the rumored iPod nano touchscreen photo, cases, and more cases, a video is posted in YouTube.

Apart from the touch screen the video also shows black and white iPhone 4s. Position 1:24 is where the 3X3 iPod Nano screen is shown in the video below, if you are in a hurry.

The truth will sureley come out in less than 24 hours when Steve Jobs takes stage in Yerb Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

The iPod touch never had click wheel and it replaced other click wheeled iPods on its relase. If leaked photos of cases for the upcoming sixth generation iPod nano are true, Apple’s click wheel is seeing its last days. Two sellers in alibaba (1, 2) are offering touch-screen protector and iPod cases for the next generation iPod nano.

The cases suggest a touchscreen iPod much similar to the form factor of the previous generation iPod Shuffle but with much more control with the touch screen. Similar cases were leaked previously and the leak of touch screen of size 1.7inch also reinforce the rumor of the iPod nano of a smaller form factor.

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No click wheel on iPods ?

A 14 year-old Elisany Silva is more than 2m tall. Born on September 27, 1995 in Brazil the 6’9” (206 cm) tall teen is still growing.

Elisany has been forced to leave her school because she couldn’t fit in the bus. Elisany is going to start ramp modeling, dressed as a bride.

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Elisany Silva – Tallest Teen Girl in the World

Ahead of the Sept. 1 media event Apple has posted the guitar graphic outside of the Yerb Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

Photo credits- Flickr user Maltegoesche.

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Sept 1 Apple event – Preparation on full swing