iPod touch showing up in stores, gets unboxed

So much for "a few weeks" -- just eight days after being announced, Apple's new iPod touch is showing up in Apple Stores, the support page just went live on Apple.com, and you know it's already gotten lovingly unboxed. Big ups to jmobley for doing the honors -- check out the rest of his Flickr set at the read link.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 15th 2007 4:17AM]

of course if you think your going to fit an entire season of the sopranos on the thing your insane, it's still 16gb.

I have season 4 of Sopranos in Div X and it's only 4.4gb, so it must be possible to encode it in MP4 and get it lower than 16gb.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 14th 2007 11:57PM]

Older WiFi technologies such as 802.11a/b are inferior to the new 802.11n (& MIMO) standards that are designed to boost signal strength without increasing power consumption. Most modern CMOS chips with basic WLAN features draw about 10 microamps of current in sleep mode and 0.6 milliamps while in power save mode while maintaining association to an access point. These chips are usually 50 or 60 square milliameters packaged in a compact low profile ball grid array (LFBGA) for easy integration into handheld devices. They can be integrated with Bluetooth radios as well and engineers have got the radio signals to play nicely together. The challenge with the iPod Touch will be the loss in the excellent battery life the device has when WiFi is used. With WiFi turned off, you can get nearly 7 hours of video battery life. If you are streaming video, Skyping or downloading, while playing music, you’ve got lots of heat and processing power drawing more current, A/D conversions and grabbing packets out of the air. I’d expect to see a 30% or 40% reduction in rated battery life under these conditions. We’ve not even considered any overhead associated with security such as WPA2 or advanced authentication to access fee-based networks. [http://lopezunwired.com]

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 14th 2007 11:47PM]

Older WiFi technologies such as 802.11a/b are inferior to the new 802.11n (& MIMO) standards that are designed to boost signal strength without increasing power consumption. Most modern CMOS chips with basic WLAN features draw about 10 microamps of current in sleep mode and 0.6 milliamps while in power save mode while maintaining association to an access point. These chips are usually 50 or 60 square milliameters packaged in a compact low profile ball grid array (LFBGA) for easy integration into handheld devices. They can be integrated with Bluetooth radios as well and engineers have got the radio signals to play nicely together. The challenge with the iPod Touch will be the loss in the excellent battery life the device has when WiFi is used. With WiFi turned off, you can get nearly 7 hours of video battery life. If you are streaming video, Skyping or downloading, while playing music, you’ve got lots of heat and processing power drawing more current, A/D conversions and grabbing packets out of the air. I’d expect to see a 30% or 40% reduction in rated battery life under these conditions. We’ve not even considered any overhead associated with security such as WPA2 or advanced authentication to access fee-based networks. [http://lopezunwired.com]

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 15th 2007 10:31PM]

I just ordered mine online. I went to the apple store after they told me they had TONS of them in stock and ended up getting burned.

Anyway I had a $30 coupon for online. I can wait. If somehow I can get one in the store before this ships I will, but the guy at the apple store told me that even if they got 40 in they would sell in under an hour, and there is no way I can get there that quick.

Oh, and as for the trivial gripes I have read here and other places I will say this, it rocks.
I played with it for a while at the store and EVERYBODY was drooling over them.

Video looked fine. Audio was fine. If they loosen up some apps it will be perfect.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 19th 2007 8:09PM]

Got an email today saying mine has shipped already. Ordered 9/5, should arrive 9/21