Steve Jobs has just announced the new iPod Touch at Apple’s “The beat goes on” special event.
The iPod Touch is 8mm thin and it looks exactly like the iPhone with the same screen size (3.5-inch). It has multi-touch, Calendar, Contacts, Clock, Calculator, Videos, Photos, Settings, Cover Flow, Album Art, YouTube, Wi-Fi, Safari and a new application: the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store.
You can now browse the iTunes store and buy songs directly on your iPod.
The iPod Touch also has slide to unlock, and when you open it up, it has the home screen, which is similar to the iPhone.
Storage: 8GB and 16GB, $299 and $399. Ships in a few weeks (this month).
Demonstration of an interactive map on a big multi-touch screen. Seen at Chaos Communication Camp 2007.
It supports moving, zooming and resizing of multiple viewports at the same time.
Apple has adopted multi-touch technology within its iPhone, the first mainstream device to use the revolutionary user interface based on a multi-touch display and innovative new software that lets you control everything using only your fingers. Using iPhone’s multi-touch display, you can glide, flip, touch, or zoom in and out. Multi-touch technology is more responsive than single touch because it is capable of recognising multiple simultaneous touches. Touching the display with one or more fingers triggers different reactions based on context. The interface can be controlled by numerous intuitive gestures such as zooming in by poking at the area you’d like to enlarge with two fingers and then spreading them apart.
Demo at the WSJ D5 conference of an interactive multi-touch 16′x8′ video wall with videos, photos, music, games and real time RSS feeds. Obscura Digital, Goodby Silverstein & partners and HP worked together to debut this for the conference.
