Recap: Apple Fall Media Event

Today I'm presenting to you a quick video recap of Apple's Fall Media event. We saw new iPods, i OS updates, and a new Apple TV. 

The new iPods pertain to the new shuffle, nano, and iPod touch. Let's start with the shuffle. Basically Apple brought over the button wheel from the 2nd generation and the voiceover playlists from the 3rd generation. I still don't think that's enough. But if you'd like to pick one up you get 2 GBs of storage for $49. The new nano in my mind is awesome. It's very tiny, so it's more portable. It's multi touch as well which is really great in my mind. You can also clip it to you're shirt or jeans which makes it very similar to the iPod shuffle. Price points are $149 for 8 GB and $179 for 16 GB. Next up is the iPod touch. Apple brought over the A4 chip and the retina display from the iPhone 4. Another feature they brought over is Facetime. It's pretty cool that I could now video chat without even using a phone. The iPod touch also features a full HD video camera. You can also pick up iMovie for iPhone from the app store for $4.99 and edit you're videos right on you're device. The last new product I'd like to address is the new Apple TV. It's a tiny black box, which is great compared to the previous generation of the Apple TV. There's no App store on it unfortunately, but it's still an awesome product. It's cloud based, so there's no internal storage or storage management. It's rental only for downloading content on it. But you can stream content from you're computer to the device. There's no syncing required. You can also stream Netflix on it, which is awesome. 

That's all I'd like to talk to you about in the post today. If you would like more details please refer to the video at the top. 

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Apple's New iPod touch

Apple's new iPod line has just rolled out today. They have three new iPods. They are the iPod touch, iPod nano and the iPod shuffle. I wll be talking about the iPod touch now. The iPod touch is a bit thinner than the iPod touch 3rd gen and has 2 cameras. With the front-facing camera you can now use FaceTime. The iPod touch also has the same Retina Diplay as the iPhone 4. The new iPod touch also uses the Apple A4 chip, so it can use the multitasking on iOS4. To top it off, Apple managed to get 40 hours of battery life in this thing. The prices stay the same. This is will be pretty successful, from my point of view.

Unboxed: Apple Battery Charger

Today I have a quick unboxing for you. It's an unboxing of the Apple battery charger. I've been considering picking one up ever since it launched. I go through batteries rapidly with all of my gadgets, so I think this Apple battery charger will be a great solution for me. I will have a full review of the product very soon. 

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Get a Mac

Today I'm not doing a post about Tek Nation. This post is about a few reasons why people should use macs instead of PCs. I picked about five different reasons I found about this subject. 

Here are my reasons. The first one is Apple's build quality. The design and build quality of a mac is very great according to me. The only people who can build macs are Apple themselves. With a PC there are tons of manufacturers. So, I like how you only have to go to one place to get a mac. I also love Mac OS X. It's simple, fast, and easy to navigate. My experience with Windows has been the exact opposite. Another fact about macs is that macs can run both Windows and Mac OS X. This feature is very overlooked and it needs some recognition. The other reasons are going to be left a mystery, so if you'd like to see everything in full detail, please take a look at the video above the text. 

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Tek Nation Episode 5: Is the Epic 4G Epic?

Tek Nation is back again. Today's topics were Facebook's new "Places" feature, the Samsung Epic 4G, Intel's purchase of McAfee, and more! Personally I'm not a huge fan of the Places feature on Facebook. I don't really know why anyone would need to use it. There are already other networks for location sharing such as Gowalla and Foursquare. I think Facebook Places will fail. 

Samsung will be releasing the 2nd 4G phone to the US market on August 31, 2010. It's called the Samsung Epic 4G. The first 4G phone to reach the US market was the HTC Evo 4G. The phone features a 4 inch multi touch display with a full slide out qwerty keyboard, front facing camera, and a 5 MP camera with an LED flash. The phone also runs on Android 2.1. Personally I'm getting sick of all these Android phones. It seems like everyday there's a new phone running Android that comes out. 

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