But musical cameos away , Steve had some jolly cool products to reveal . The first , theMotorola ROKR E1cell phone with iTunes backing , was well known to every blogger , rumor land site , and major news organization days before the announcement — but that did n’t make it any less nerveless ( nor did meaningless words like “ convergence , ” “ compelling , ” and “ innovative ” used by Motorola and Cingular executive detract from the ware itself ) . At its heart , the ROKR is a Quad - stripe , Bluetooth - enabled , camera - equipped , stereo - speaker cell earpiece . But it ’s also an iPod with 512 megabyte of retentiveness . There ’s a button on the phone to access iTunes , it dissemble very much like an iPod ( without the Click Wheel ) , show up in the Source list of the novel iTunes 5 , and can shamble song or play albums and play list . And at $ 250 with a 2 - yr contract with Cingular , not a defective deal for two gadget in one .
Like any good showman , however , Steve saved the best for last — the iPod nano . The prefix ‘ nano ’ means one - billionth . Now I ’m not sure what it ’s one - billionth of , nor do I savor lots of hyperbole , but having gotten my grubby little fingers around one of these after the keynote , I can say that it ’s really modest . Or to be more accurate , really thin ( Jobs compare its thickness to that of a # 2 pencil , the very image of which made me shudder think about the thousand of bubbles I ’d filled in for tests during gamy school day , college , and grad shoal ) . But everything about it is small ( specially the album art of the nano ’s semblance projection screen ) , but the deepness is hard to fathom — it almost appear fake . At $ 249 for 4 GB and $ 199 for 2 GB , you get less memory board for the money than with the iPod mini fashion model they replace , but what the nano lacks in capacity , it makes up for in coolness . It adds colour , uses Flash - retentiveness instead of a tough drive ( which accounts for the thinness , and makes it jolt - substantiation ) , get in black or ashen , and includes some cool feature like a stop watch , screen lock , and multiple pin clover . The only singular thing is the placement of the phone jack — on the bottom . But that apart , I think it ’s clean to say that Apple is live to betray a ton of these .
Oh yeah , and all the Harry Potter volume are now available as audiobooks from the iTunes Music Store , and for a limited time you could buy a Hogwarts Crest - engraved 20 GB iPod with The Complete Harry Potter downloads for $ 548 . regard that the only grouping of people more fervent than iPod users are Harry Potter fans , Apple will probably sell a goodly number of audiobooks in the come weeks .
