Hot new iPods introduced

If it ain’t broke, improve it. That seems to be the mantra of Apple as it unveiled still another lineup of iPods, boasting bigger storage capacities, new designs and more versatile and powerful features like the ability to watch HD TV shows.

At a San Francisco event dubbed “Let’s Rock,” Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs showed off the the latest iPod line, headlined by a new stretched and slimmed down version of the best-selling nano in new colors of purple, yellow and orange (as well as blue, red, pink and silver) and new storage capacity of up to 16GB.

Instead of the old familiar white ear buds, which exercisers and active people have long complained about because they so easily fall out, Jobs revealed that the new players will come with in-ear headphones. “We think we’ve finally got these right,” said Jobs. Read more

Apple says MobileMe is now working

Okay. Exhale slowly now. Apple says MobileMe is now working, closing in on three weeks after it was supposed to be up and running and in place of Mac.com. Apple Insider is reporting AppleInsider | Apple says MobileMe transition complete, lost messages recovered [u].

Apple iPhone 3G sold out - three week wait to get one

Apple is sure on a roll. The iPhone 3G is - for all practical purposes - completely sold out.

An AT&T spokesperson says wait time is from 5 to 21 days (that’s three weeks!), even though they are receiving thousands of new shipments “each day.”

Same with Apple retail stores.

After having mine for 10 days and traveling across the state in that time, I can see why. The 3G wireless network is blazingly fast, although AT&T’s 3G coverage is limited in Michigan to just three locations right now — metro Detroit, Flint and Grand Rapids.

While the EDGE network works just abut everywhere, it is very slow at times, no doubt because of the million-plus new iPhones that suddenly joined the system since the new units went on sale July 11.

AT&T says it will be building out and expanding the 3G network to more Michigan cities by the end of the year.

Where it does work, however, the 3G network makes the iPhone about as close to a laptop in convenience and functionality as a mobile phone can be.