iPhone & iPod Touch Get Storage Boosts
Written on February 05, 2008 by Matt Radel and 14 people have commented
The options for the iPod touch and iPhone got a little more diverse today, as Apple added a 32GB touch and a 16GB iPhone. Both retail for $499. The touch will ship in 1-2 business days and comes with free engraving, while either iPhone will ship in 1-3 business days.
So if you’ve been holding out on pulling the trigger on a new toy, now might be the time to pull out the old credit card and pony up the dough.
#1 Galley says:If they could’ve brought in the higher-capacity models at the same price as the current ones, and dropped the prices on those by $100, now that would’ve been something!
#2 Joe Louthan says:Yawn. Wake me up when they start shipping with 160GB drives.
#3 razmaspaz says:No 3G, no news. I’ll pull the trigger when they hit 32GB IPhone with 3G, till then its still living in early adopter status.
#4 corpmac says:Neither are available in the UK or Europe yet - I wonder why that is? I speculated over on my blog Corpmac.co.uk about this - they simply may be a delay in updating the UK store - or more seriously, we know that the phone hasn’t been selling as well in the UK and Europe as predicted - so they may be delaying the 16Gb model’s introduction here to allow inventory of the 8Gb model to clear down a bit. I hope that’s not the case.
Alan.
#5 Tim says:too bad I literally bought the 8GB last night at the apple store….
#6 Matt Radel says:Doh! I make it a point to never buy an Apple product on a Monday for just that reason. You could always take it back and eat the 15% restocking fee…
#7 Rotten Apple says:Apple releases an updated iphone and ipod one month after the Christmas rush. Thank you for screwing loyal and faithful customers once again.
#8 Honza says:LOL. Screwing loyal customers? You made your decision to buy and you got what you paid for.
#9 Quinn says:So what’s the timeline on the 3G, Sept/Oct or sooner?
#10 Sour Apple says:I agree with Rotten Apple. This sucks! I can’t beleive Apple screwed it’s loyal customers, again. We should get a rebate.
#11 Steve says:Apple should be ashamed of themselves! By not allowing customers to purchase or upgrade their existing 8g iphone to the 16g iphone is immoral, unethical, and insensitive!
This is not good business! So many people bought the 8g iphone over the holidays. To purposely sell an iphone with twice as much memory at this time is appalling! If we knew about this a few months ago we would have held off and purchased the newer version for $100 more. I would have liked to know I had an option of waiting to spend more later, or spending less and only getting the 8g iphone.
To treat existing customers this way is disgusting! Just out of principle, I and others may drop Apple and AT&T altogether! Apple should allow for customers to pay maybe $100-$200 for the new iphone. It is not just a few gigabyte difference, but it is twice as much. That is significant.
Apple is telling me they care nothing for me, and obviously don’t care at all about my business with them! It is just not smart business on behalf of Apple!
Remember, it takes only a foolish mistake to lose a customer forever. It shocks me management did not have enough checks and balances to catch this awful scheme before it happened
#12 Renee says:i LOVE iPOD BUT THE FACT THAT THE BATTETY DOESN’T LAST LONG IS WHAT GETS TO ME. I FOUND A NEW BATTERY AT HTTP://WWW.NEEDBATTERY.COM LUCKILY THEY HAVE REALLY LOW PRICES WHICH CAN HELP OUT A LOT SINCE THE PRICES FOR THESE BATTERIES CAN BE REALLY HIGH.
#13 Ipodrepublic says:Should be interesting to see if the rumours are true that the new 3g iphone will be presented at next weeks developer conference
#14 Danielle Thurlow-LaRue says:This new company called mogotxt has created a console which enables apple ipod touch owners to text for free. Check it out, signing up is free…www.mogotxt.com