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Apple upgrades iPhone and iPod Touch

Written by Rene Millman

Tuesday, 05 February 2008

Normally Apple likes to make a big fanfare when new products come out (Just see here to get our drift). But this one almost slipped under our radar, as the purveyors of fine mp3 players secretly doubled the capacities of both the iPhone and the iPod Touch.

The iPhone will now be available in both 16GB or 8GB formats, while the iPod touch now comes with 32GB of musical storage goodness on top of the existing 16GB and 8GB models.

At present we only have US pricing details so if you were to pop into the Apple store in San Francisco and buy the 16GB iPhone, it will set you back $499, which is, incidentally the same price as the 32GB iPod touch. As usual, UK pricing and availability have yet to be confirmed.

"For some users, there's never enough memory," said Greg Joswiak, Apple's vice president of Worldwide iPod and iPhone Product Marketing. "Now people can enjoy even more of their music, photos and videos on the most revolutionary mobile phone and best Wi-Fi mobile device in the world."

Both the iPhone and the Ipod touch have the multi-touch interface, which is based on technology developed by Fingerworks. Which also features on the new MacBook Air.

As usual the Apple stores were closed for "maintenance" while the new products went up online (such theatre!) And this led to the usual amount of frenzied speculation of what was to come.