Photos: 2008 Apple iPods

September's annual iPod announcement was met by the usual hoopla as Steve Jobs ushered in new Shuffle colors, an updated iPod Classic capacity list, redesigned fourth-generation iPod Nanos, and a minimal iPod Touch redesign and price reduction. Check out photos and more details in this gallery of the 2008 Apple iPods.

Cover Flow navigation on the 4G Nano is just one of many changes to this iPod.

(Credit: Apple)

[Dalmatian28]

Hey...we have seen this before!!!!! O yeah, it was called iPad Mini. I still got one of those somewhere, it looks exactly like the one shown on the photo! It looks like Apple has run out of creativity when it comes to iPads. I wander why would I spend money on this....it offers nothing that I really really must have! It also offers copy protection that I want or need, NOOO Thank you Apple!

[Interpolnyc]

hmm, a bit soon for a refresh, i think they need to start finding a more ballanced approach to actual physical updates. too many and people stop buying because there will just be a new one out in half a year, too few and the design grows stale. nano needs to be a once a year update, or just show them off at ces' and see the response. its not bad though. i bet ill like itunes 8.

[wmyinzer]

Wow, this is wonderful. Apple is copying off the Zune now? hahah.

Its default screen when playing music looks like the Zune's, the screen is elongated like the Zune's...what next? A touch pad and a big, bold main menu interface? F*** Apple and their so-called "originality"....this all began when they stole their GUI from Xerox.

[eddie7777]

"Wow, this is wonderful. Apple is copying off the Zune now? hahah."
when the zune first came out didnt everyone say that they copied the Ipod nano 1st gen?
so Apple is going back to an older design, not copying the zune.

[thelemurking]

edie, when the first iPod came out they basically ripped off Rio and Creative. The Rio Karma was a much better player, but Rio had no idea how to market the device and it was doomed for failure despite being a superior device. To this day I cannot think of any player that matches it in file format support. It was the first player to add Ogg Vorbis and FLAC to the standard formats. It's sound was excellent, especially for FLAC. It's only downside other than the lack of marketing and 3rd party products like cases etc, was the internal non-removable battery. So when it died and it was out of warranty, it would cost almost as much to ship it off and have the battery replaced as it did to have bought a new player. I believe I was quoted $120 for warranty and $85 for the battery.

Apple had to pay Creative a lot of cash for ripping off their interface ;)

[thelemurking]

Wow, looks exactly like the pic Kevin Rose posted that everyone dogged on for being fake :)

I really don't care for this or the fat dumpy nano it's replacing. The older design was a lot nicer in my opinion.