As expected, Apple's Steve Jobs announced the latest range of iPods in San Francisco yesterday, with the whole range spruced up a bit. All new iPods are on sale now from Apple's online store and should be in physical Apple stores over the coming days.
The biggest changes have been made to the iPod Nano, which not only becomes the thinnest iPod ever made by the company, but has also been given a larger, curved screen, which can be viewed portrait or landscape, simply by turning it upright or on its side. Also, to shuffle tracks, all you need to do now is give it a shake, which is rather cool. If possibly a bit irritating after a while.
The iPod Classic has also been made slimmer and lighter, with a speaker and a transmitter for the Nike+iPod system built in. The iPod Touch is updated to give it potential for gaming.
As well as upgrades to the iPod family, Jobs announced iTunes 8, which will include a new smart playlist creator called 'Genius', which can select tracks from a user's library and match them with others of similar styles - basically another Last.fm style recommendation thingy, a bit like what the new version of Microsoft's Zune player is also offering. The new iTunes software can be downloaded for free now.