Apple's "Let's Rock" Round up..

Well folks the wait is over and I am here with a brief summery of Apple's Let's Rock event. Putting all the rumors to rest about his health Steve Jobs makes his appearance and boy he makes it with a nice slide. I must tell you its always great to have Steve on stage. And now back to the summary of Lets Rock..

Apple release the new iTunes 8 with the Genius Sidebar. According to Steve Jobs "Old browsing wasn't efficient", he means to say that Genius will change the way you browse your media. Well in essence this Genius sidebar will add some eye candy and make it easier for Apple to get some business with 'buy this song' available in the sidebar!! You got TV show in HD in iTunes now. I think its great news.

Next up Jobs pumps up the iPod Classic up to 120 GB and will be available for $249. The highlight of the event is probably the announcement of the 4th generation iPod Nano. I must tell you this thing looks absolutely stunning and boy its got everything you want in a music player. Jobs calls it the thinnest iPod ever with new Genius playlist, shake to shuffle feature and its gone green too. Its got great battery too with 24 hours of music playback and 4 hours of video playback. Nano 4G should be available soon in probably 9 colors with 8GB model for $149 and 16GB for $199.

What about the iPod Touch, much to our expectations Jobs announced the newly updated iPod Touch that is slimmer and its got a stainless steel case too.

Features of the new iPod touch are

• Hardware Volume Controls

• Built in Speaker

• Built in Nike receiver

• User interface now has the new iTunes Genius Sidebar

• Battery life is at 36 hours of music playback and 6 hours of video playback.

If you are one of those who always had a complain about the ear phones bundled with your iPods, you may be in some great luck this time around. Jobs announced the new $79 earphones which should have great audio quality. Going by its features, I bet it should. These new in ear phones have 2 drivers each, a woofer and a tweeter and they come with three ear buds of different sizes so that you can find the one that fits best in your ear.

I thought Let's Rock was an opportunity for Apple to deal with the copy and paste thing in iPhone and iPod Touch. But sadly though the new firmware 2.1 for iPhone/iPod Touch announced with a lots of bug fixes like improved battery life, fewer dropped calls, faster iTunes backups but no mention of copy and paste. Lets see if the new firmware 2.1 fixes the bugs its supposed to when its released this Friday.

To sum up, except for the new iPod Nano 4G, Let's Rock didn't seem to rock as much as we expected it too. Before I take leave don't forget to download the video of Let's Rock which will be available soon on iTunes. Lastly all the pics posted here are courtesy Gizmodo. And boy did I forget ... its my Birthday too :-)