Danny Gorog06 February 2008, 12:27 AM
As widely rumored, Apple announced doubled the capacity of its the iPod Touch and iPhone -- likely to be the last upgrade before the release of the 3G iPhone.
As widely rumored, Apple last night announced capacity upgrades to the iPod Touch and iPhone product lines.
While the existing 8 and 16GB iPod Touch models remain available, a new larger capacity 32GB iPod Touch has been released, and sells for A$629. All iPod touch models now ship with the latest software announced last month at Macworld and include the ability to create Web Clips and come with Mail, Maps, Stocks, Weather and Notes.
While still unavailable in Australia, Apple also extended the capacity of the iPhone introducing a new model with 16GB of memory for US$499. This upgrade is likely the last before the highly anticipated '3G' iPhone hits the market.
 iPod Touch, now comes in 32GB for $629 |
Market analysis firm Canalys also released a report giving the iPhone a twenty eight percent market share of the US smartphone market for the fourth calendar quarter, up more than 40% for the period ending in September. According to Canalys, that places Apple second only behind RIM in the US market, but well in front of Palm who only managed to snag nine percent.
While only managing fifth spot in the European market (behind Nokia, RIM, HTC and Motorola) Apple snagged third spot in the worldwide smartphone market with combined shipments of 2.32 million iPhones, but still trailing behind RIM and Nokia.
With the imminent release of the multi-touch SDK (due end of February) and Apple's promised deployment of the iPhone through more of Europe, Asia and Australia these numbers are likely to increase in the medium term as the 'multi-touch' platform extends Apple's reach in to the smartphone and media-player markets.
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