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16GB iPhone and iPod Touch
posted on 06 February 2008 09:36
Apple added 16GB iPhone and iPod Touch models to its lineup of phones and music players, doubling the maximum amount of storage space.
The new top-of-the-line iPhone is priced at $499, Apple said today. This is the first time since September, when Apple dropped the 4GB iPhone from its sales sheet, that the smart phone family has had multiple models. Apple continues to sell the 8GB iPhone for $399.
The iPod Touch -- for all intents and purposes is an iPhone that cannot make or take calls -- now sports a 32GB model, also priced at $499, as a third option. Older models, including the $299 8GB and the $399 16GB configurations, remain available.
"This is just a bigger, faster kind of announcement," said Ezra Gottheil, an analyst at Technology Business Research Inc., speculating that the timing was partly driven by an attempt to pump iPhone sales during a traditionally slow period. "Mobile phone [sales] aren't as seasonal as iPods, but they are seasonal."
Gottheil said he still expects Apple to make major changes to the iPhone in 2008, adding 3G capability and perhaps even true GPS functionality. "I'd put that around the middle of the year," he said today.
The larger capacity iPhone and iPod Touch are available immediately at Apple's own retail stores, at its online outlet and at resellers in the The upgraded models sell for 499 euros in Europe and £329 in the
The new iPhone's price tag is the same as the 4GB model's price when the latter debuted in June 2007. Just over two months later, however, Apple CEO Steve Jobs ditched that model and slashed the price of the 8GB smart phone by $200, to $399.
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