ipods, tv's, and a bag of updates

if i said my apple sense wans't tingling with excitement then i'd be lying... its been a fantastic couple of weeks for all of us apple fans, and i though i might aswell do a round up of whats been going on, so lets start with the ipods. the shuffle was the first to be updated, and for all you fans of actual buttons instead of voice control, you're in luck, because the new generation features both, thats right, both.apart from this, the only difference is that its a much more square design than before, and has a very handy clip to attach it to waits, wrists, and shirt pockets alike. the next ipod to be updated was the nano, and we finally got to see what apple's shipments of 1.5 inch touch screens are actually used for. they've basically sliced the click wheel off, and made the screen multi touch enabled. if you're like me, and you're wondering why a 1.5 inch screen has multi touch, i have no idea whatsoever. so its kind of a smaller ipod touch without a home button, so returning home is achieved by swiping from left to right. they've stayed with 8gb and 16gb storage, which i was a bit disappointed about, a 32gb nano would be a real media tool. its hard to describe the nano's looks, so head over to apple for some better descriptions. just a note, the nano doesn't have an app store...yet.
next up is the touch, which is easily describable, because its virtually the same as the third gen, but with an A4 chip, 2 camera's, (the back has 720p recording), and the precious retina display. this may seem great, but the camera lense isn't the same quality as the iphone 4, and the retina has no IPS, so holding it at absurd angles for no reason is out of the question. its also even thinner than the last model, so i think its a great time to buy the touch. storage is the same as the old model...
the final product shown on the 1st was the new apple tv, and i'm going to be blunt, apple has missed the mark with this one. there's no internal storage, so everything is streamed from your mac, or iOS device. this is great for someone in north korea who's on 50 billion mb internet, but for someone who has a megabyte, this is almost unusable, as films would take hours to buffer. i realise i might be jumping the gin on this one, so i'm going to buy one on monday and make another blog after i've tried it out. another problem is to stream from a mac it has to be on.... so your only choice is leaving it on all day, which has put me off even further. in terms of what the apple TV does, its the same as before.
in other news, iOS4.1 is out, with game centre (yes apple fan, you were meant to get that several months ago in 4.0) and something called HDR photo's. HDR photo's creates the effect of multi focusing, so you can get everything in your picture to be sharp, and as colourful as real life, and in some circumstances this helps. for example, standing against a wall and focusing on yourself would normally mean you'd lose the colour of the wall, but HDR stops this, which is cool.
apart from 4.1, jobs announced 4.2 for ipad, which will be available in november, and it brings folders, multi tasking, game centre, print management (YAY!), and all the other OS4 stuff which never made it to your pad. i'll have more on this nearer november.
P.S. my free case arrived, and its been doing a great job, thankyou apple for giving me a solution to a problem i never had :D