QuickTime Streaming Webcast of Apple's Special Event on 9/7/05 is Out

The Special Event hosted yesterday by Apple CEO Steve Jobs at San Francisco's Moscone West is now available for viewing as a QuickTime streaming webcast from this Apple Web page. There is also an Apple photo gallery of the event on this Apple Web page.

Apple announced iTunes 5, Apple and Motorola introduced the new ROKR E1 cell phone with iTunes software and Apple introduced the new iPod nano, a terrific replacement for the iPod mini.

iTunes Phone--Motorola ROKR E1 Cell Phone: The Moto iTunes-enabled phone is available only from Cingular for $249.99 with a 2-year contract. The phone has iTunes software built in. It holds up to 100 songs, has stereo speakers and a set of stereo headphones. The songs are transferred via a USB cable from your Mac via iTunes just like an iPod.

iPod nano: The latest addition to Apple's iPod line, the iPod nano, replaces the iPod mini. The nano is about one-third smaller than the mini and much lighter at 1.5 oz. It has a 1.5" color screen, 25% smaller than the iPod's, and comes in white or black. The nano looks very much like a smaller iPod with a gray click wheel and shiny stainless steel back.

The nano uses flash memory like the shuffle instead of a micro hard drive like the mini it replaces. It comes in a 2GB (500 songs) model for $199 and a 4GB (1000 songs) model for $249. It has the same 30-pin connector for USB as all recent iPods and a stereo minijack for headphones. The nano will also carry photos as well as songs and will display slide shows. The battery life is stated at 14 hours and the nano has a screen lock.

Unfortunately, our iPod mini gave up the ghost just a couple of weeks ago and we replaced it with a 20GB color iPod to get a color screen...d'oh! [Bill Fox & Dana Baggett]