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It’s official: Apple’s denied that the iPod Touch will have Bluetooth. [Boing Boing Gadgets]

The $100 iPhone Rebate: The What and the Why

Steve Jobs and Apple announced the $100 Store Credit “rebate” for all iPhone owners that were eager enough to buy an iPhone when it first came out. The early adopters had enough faith in the company to buy early, even though it cost a good $500/$600. It’s a great gesture, in theory, but let’s analyze…

So You Bought an iPhone Before the Price Drop?

The iPhones price dropped, but you already bought one, and now you’re about to burst a blood vessel. You don’t care about the $100 gift card that Steve Jobs offered all iPhone users earlier today, you want your $200 back. Fear not reader, there are still some options available to try and recoup some of…

Breaking: Apple Offering $100 Store Credit For All iPhone Owners

If you purchased an iPhone between June 29 and yesterday, Steve Jobs and Apple have just announced that they’re going to give you a $100 store credit rebate for being an early adopter. No details yet on how you’ll get your rebate, but it will be posted by next week. Full text of Jobs’ open…

Video: Hands-On with the New iPod Nano and Classic Packaging

Videographer Richard Blakeley just hit up the Soho Apple store and found both the new iPod nanos and iPod classics up for sale already, both with fancy new packaging. Hit the video above to see him getting his sweaty mitts all over them.

TV Out on iPhone Coming Soon via Software Update?

The Apple Store page for the component AV cables—which up until now only supported the iPod classic—lists both the iPod touch and the iPhone as supported devices. What’s up with that? The iPhone doesn’t support TV out. Well, seeing as the iPod touch is also there, and since the touch and the iPhone are almost…

Looks like Nokia is twisting the screw just a little more into the sides of iPhone early adopters. [Search Engine Land via Techmeme via Textually]

Belkin Releases iPod Classic and Nano SportBands, Cases

Belkin’s followed up Apple’s announcements yesterday with a few accessory announcements today. Among them are the Sport Armband Plus for the iPod classic, nano and touch ($29), and the Sport Armband for iPod classic, nano ($19) and touch ($29). The Plus has a hook fastener and a cable capsule for earphone storage as well as…

Apple Gloats, Spits in Early Adopters’ Faces With iPhone Contextual Ad

Check out this Sponsored Google Link ad you get when you search for “iphone price drop.” Thanks, Apple. Thanks. [Google]

Facebook Picks an iPod

After weighing all of the GB options and touchscreens versus scroll wheels, we’re still not completely sure which iPod or iPhone to get yet, but those profile-happy kids over at Facebook seem to know. With a commanding 31% of the votes the iPod touch is the victor this time around. Although that doesn’t tell you…

For those of you who want to relive the hour and a half you spent not working, here’s Apple’s official recording of the keynote yesterday. [Apple]

Toshiba Announces 160GB 1.8″ Drive (iPod Classic Drive?)

Toshiba has just announced the “world’s highest-capacity 1.8″ hard drisk drive,” a new 160GB CE-ATA drive aimed at the PMP market, along with an 80GB PATA drive of the same size. Hmmm…sounds so familiar. https://gizmodo.com/apples-ipod-classic-is-overgrown-hard-drive-equipped-n-296675 I’m actually fairly pumped about the new, massive iPod Classic, glad that Apple hasn’t written off those of us who…

iPod Touch Has Bluetooth Support?

According to this picture—found on the official German Apple website and still up at the moment—the iPod Touch supports unannounced Bluetooth. Look to the upper right corner near the battery gauge. Yup. Bluetooth. That is, unless Prince went back to symbol form, signed a contract with Apple and has his name stamped on every iPod…

iPod Hi-Fi R.I.P.

Nah nah nah nah nah, nah nah nah nah. Hey hey hey. Good-bye. As of yesterday, Apple’s Hi-Fi is gone from their online store. The wrath of Jobs falls hard upon those who don’t meet their quotas. The Hi-Fi was a massive mistake. Apple, don’t you know? Only third parties can make money off of…

Apple’s Stock Drops 5.15%, Low Boom Count to Blame?

Wall Street can be such a fickle beast sometimes. Today, Apple revealed what could only be referred to as a monstrous unveiling of iPod-related material, and how do the investors repay them? With a 5.15% drop in the stock price. (Although we’ve done a few of our own calculations and have come to a striking…

iBrate App Turns iPhone Into Vibrator

Click to viewLadies (and gentlemen), your iPhone app has come, and it’s called iBrate. It has one function: turn your iPhone into a vibrator. To control it, all you have to do is hit the one button. To stop, hit stop. Simple. Here’s our wish list for version 2. • Bigger start/stop button • Variable…

The iPhoney Award

Judging by the fact that the new Nano looks a bit like an iPod knockoff itself, we thought it would only be fitting to show off the iPhoneys, a contest for those who create the most blatant iPod/iPhone ripoffs of all. Current front runners include the Meizu m8, Microsoft Zune and Teclast t59. They always…

Rating Gizmodo’s iPod Announcement Predictions

We made a lot of predictions about what we’d see today at Apple’s keynote over the past few weeks, and we were right some of the time and wrong some of the time. Mostly, however, we were right. I know, I know; I’m as surprised as you are. Let’s take a look and see just…

5 Things We Love, 5 Things We Hate About the New iPod Lineup

Click to viewIt’s easy to say what we love about the new iPods—like Gizmodo commenters, they are each special in their own unique way. But there are some gnawing issues that we would like to bring up. First, five things we love: • iPhone price drop – $200 discounts come to those who wait, and…

The White iPod Has Gone Extinct

Click to view We all saw it coming, but now it’s official, white iPods have become extinct. May we all bow our heads, and take a trip down memory lane. The white iPod might have started it all off, but sure enough, it has been moved out of the spotlight. Obviously there were the colorful…