October 13th, 2005 by Chi An
Finally the rumor comes true, the new iPod is now capable to play video. Steve Job announced it in the One More Thing event at San Jose, California. Compare to previous iPods, the new iPod has slimmer body and wider screen. It has a 320 x 240 QVGA display in 65K colors. It is available in 30GB and 60GB sell for US$299 and US$399 respectively. Same as iPod Nano, each model comes with 2 colors, black and white.
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September 8th, 2005 by Chi An
The Apple Special Event, San Francisco yesterday brought a lot of surprise (as expected)! As others speculated, Steve Jobs - together with president of Motorola’ mobile division, Ron Garriques - introduced the long waited iTunes phone, Motorola ROKR E1.
With iTunes installed on PC/Mac, you can simply drag and drop up to 100 songs or random autofill (
auto-shuffle) into your Motorola ROKR E1 via USB. It will pause music when you have a call and resume play automatically once you hang up.
The sound of Motorola ROKR E1 is good as Paul Boutin
said.
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iTunes + Cingular }
August 22nd, 2005 by Chi An
Get bored with your dull-colored headphones? How about getting a trendy bikini headphone? Well, the headphones are manufactured by ZUMREED, called ‘BORDER/MUJI’ . It has 15 different colors and can be folded while not in use. The recommended price in Korea is 38,000 Won (approx US$37).
{ via
AVing Visual News }
August 9th, 2005 by Chi An
Wow, iTunes Music Store (iTMS) in Japan has just sold 1 million songs in just 4 days! This is the greatest startup in any of the 20 countries that iTunes Music Store made. The Japanese iTMS was just launched last thursday, 4th August 2005.
“We’ve had the No. 1 digital music player in Japan. And now we can say we have the No. 1 online music store in Japan,” said Eddy Cue, Apple Computer Inc. vice president of applications.
With just 4 days, iTMS is outperformed than Sony Corp’s online music store. It is around 450,000 songs downloaded
per month through the Sony Corp’s online music store.
It’s time for Sony to make some changes! Will Sony join the iTMS?
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CBS News via
DAPreview }
August 4th, 2005 by Chi An
As reported before, Apple has launched its iTunes Music Store (iTMS) in Japan on 4th Aug 2005! At the press conference at Tokyo, Steve Jobs announced that iTMS is live with million songs in AAC format.
These songs are from 15 record companies, where 90% of them are sold for
150Yen (approx US$1.35) each and the less are
200Yen (approx US$1.80) each.
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