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Apple Keynote Recap, New Apple TV and iPods Revealed

Mr. Jobs and company opened the floodgates and let the products flow free for all to see. All devices are available for pre-order today! The new iPod Shuffle has physical buttons, a rear clip, VoiceOver, and playlist. Coming in five different colors and offering 2GB of storage (15 hours of music) and a price tag of $49, you’ll get a lot for a little.

The new iPod Nano offers a multi-touch display and has an iOS-style operating system with multiple home screens showcasing four onscreen icons at a time. The device will also display album art and photos. There will be two models available an 8GB priced at $149 and 16GB priced at $179.

The new thinner iPod Touch will offer Retina display, A4 chip, gyroscope, front-facing camera with FaceTime, rear-facing camera with HD video recording, and iOS 4.1. The device will also support iMovie and FaceTime will work with iPhone 4 and other iPod Touches via WiFi. There will be three models: 8 GB $229, 32 GB $299, 64 GB $399.

The revamped Apple TV is much, much smaller (about one-fourth the size of the original Apple TV)  and offers a variety of connectivity options: HDMI, digital audio outputs, Ethernet and 802.11n WiFi. This new device hobby will also offer rentals from iTunes. No word on internal storage (guess that’s how they got it so small?) but the new Apple TV will stream content. HD movies will rent for $4.99 the same day as the DVD release and HD TV shows from FOX and ABC for 99¢. Speaking of streaming there will also be Netflix, Youtube and, MobileMe support this time around. Apple’s new AirPlay will allow it’s users to stream and share content from one iOS device to another. The new Apple TV ships in about four weeks and comes with a remote control. Our favorite part is the new affordable price tag of $99.

Conclusion

We pretty much got everything we expected but in the end we’re happy with that. As we mentioned you can start pre-ordering all these goodies which you might wanna do now while the getting is good. Either that or start saving money for insanely inflated Ebay auctions.