“Touch me not!” said the iPod touch, as the mad crowd made their way to the front, manhandling Apple’s wafer thin iPod.
The official prices of the new Apple iPod line was announced today for the Philippine market. Though the iPod shuffle, iPod nano and iPod classic have been spotted in several Apple retailers, there is still no suggested retail price for consumers to use to compare across stores. The photo above illustrates the SRP for the new line of iPods:
iPod shuffle P5,090.00
iPod nano 4GB P9,090.00
iPod nano 8GB P12,390.00
iPod 80GB P15,790.00
iPod 160GB P22,090.00
iPod touch 8GB P19,090.00
iPod touch 16GB P25,490.00
The show stealer was of course the iPod touch which will be available in the Philippines in October 2007. I counted two units for today’s demonstration and here are my impressions and comments:
- the iPod touch is almost wafer thin – a little scary to place in your back pants pocket
- you cannot use a Bluetooth headset with this device in the same way that you cannot use a Bluetooth headset with the iPhone to listen to music
- you can add and sync contacts to your Address Book application but you cannot add iCal events through the iPod touch. The device is not meant to be a PDA.
- the Starbucks WiFi store is not applicable here in the Philippines
- you can download free podcasts from the iTunes Store – that’s the most we can do since we don’t have a local version
One observation I have with regards to the photo above is the huge blank void in the menu screen. It seems that the iPod touch will also make use of 3rd party applications in the same way the iPhone has but Apple commented that this is all they have to offer.
So which iPod is right for you? After getting to try out the touch and the new nano, I feel that I must go for the third generation of the nano, not because the iPod touch is an inferior product but more because the former seems to hold a sweet spot in my choice for a flash player which is compatible with the Nike Sports Kit. I find that the nano provides more utility and is more robust in terms of features that I need. The iPod touch offers an insane amount of eye candy and WiFi web surfing, but I’m finding the price a little expensive.
14 replies on “iPod touch hands on impressions and prices”
oohhhh me want one of those
If the Touch offered a little more storage which hopefully the 2nd or 3rd generation will do, then I’d go for the Touch, but for now, ‘m still happily content with my 5th G iPod 30 GB :)though I have to admit, the Nano does look quite tempting 😀
I want the stubby nano. 😀
the powermac center in greenbelt 3 told me that the price for the ipod touch is only 16,990 and 22,990.. the prices that appear in the newspaper are usually based on suggested retail price or an approximation of the market price.
I want the iPod touch it looks like an iPhone and its cool for me. Hahaha I could have waited for the iPod touch. I just bought an iPod Video last month, I think.
yup. i confirmed the prices with some of my sources. I guess these SRP’s are outdated? Weird though. Doesn’t happen in a press con.
Does anybody know a store that has an ipod touch on display? i already pre ordered mine, but i really want to try it and to see how it looks like.
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no store has it yet aldwin. 🙂
Thanks for filling me in on the iPod Touch. Since I don’t have much money, this review will probably be the closest I’ll get to one.
i know where to get an iPod touch it lower than P19,090.00 the suggested prices range from as low as 15k+ at ambassador appliances and 16500 at iStudio. i gotta grab one of those…
The iPod Touch is now on display at the Power Mac Center in Trinoma. I tried it and its quite too thin for my hands but I still want it.
how much the ipod touch today……
where can i buy an ipod touch?