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iPod touch New iPod touch price.... $200?

Price comparison iPhone & iPod Touch

Here in New Zealand Vodafone has handset only prices on their website:

Vodafone NZ

and as comparison the New Zealand Apple store iPod Touch prices:

Apple Store NZ

Summary (prices in NZD):

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               8GB    16GB
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iPod Touch  449.00  599.00
iPhone      979.00 1129.00


The iPhone costs 530 NZD more than the comparable iPod Touch!

Therefore I don't think the price of the next generation iPod Touch will be significantly lower.
I would guess no more 8GB model and the 16GB model starts at 449.00 NZD.
 
tuffluffjimmy said:
48GB? as in 16+32? That's unlikely, for the storage system to operate properly the chip sizes must be equal capacity.
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True, but if they redisign the circuit board they could easily put 3 spots for memory chips. Right now 16gb chips are far cheaper than 32gb chips. Put three 16s in there to get 48. A nice memory bump that could probably be done for the same price a 32gb Touch cost last season. Just a theory. Apple may shock us all and put a 160gb hard drive in there.
 
4DThinker said:
It's more likely they'll do the "shuffle". They lowered the price on the 1gig shuffle and introduced a 2gig version at the previous 1gig price. You might be able to buy an 8gb Touch for $249, with the 16gb Touch moving to $299, 32gb moving to $399, and perhaps a 48gb or 64gb version taking the top spot.
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This seems about right (besides the 48/64 GB). I don't think the 8 GB version will be $199 because the current 4 GB - 8 GB difference is $50, and so the upcoming 8 GB - 16 GB difference would also be $50.
 
superhamster said:
It will be very interesting to see if they add GPS. I hope they do and I hope they don't. The government will be tracking every iPod Touch out there.
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GPS doesn't seem very useful on the Touch to me, unless they allow you to cache large maps first, or tie up some memory to have basic maps resident all the time. Think about it, any time you don't have a wifi connection the Touch could use GPS to find out where you're located (in lat & long), but wouldn't be able to update the map to show you. This means GPS would only be useful when you're within range of wifi that you can access for data (not just detect) -- how useful would that really be? When you're within range of wifi the Touch can usually already determine its location.

GPS on the iPhone allows it to more accurately and reliably determine its location than it could using the triangulation method, but is only useful on the iPhone because the iPhone has a full-time data connection. Even GPS on the iPhone is of questionable value if you're outside the 3G/EDGE data coverage area.
 
sandman42 said:
GPS doesn't seem very useful on the Touch to me, unless they allow you to cache large maps first, or tie up some memory to have basic maps resident all the time.
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And really, that wouldn't be too difficult if Apple wanted to do it. Years ago, I had a GPS receiver add-on for my old Palm Pilot, and it came with a complete set of US street maps that fit on a single CDROM. So surely they could reserve a gigabyte or less space for users that wanted GPS+maps on the iPod touch. It could be optional for those who didn't want it taking up space.

Of course, I wouldn't expect Apple to do this - it would be far too useful! :rolleyes:
 
$200 Right Now!

you can buy a 8gig ipod touch refurbished which is as good as new for $209 online at the applestore.:apple:

and I don't know why you would sell your old ntouch to buy a new one. I don't think they will be that different.
 
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