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Hands-on with Apple MacBook Air, Time Capsule, Apple TV, updated iPod touch & iPhone and iTunes rentals

By Nate Lanxon on 15 January 2008, 8:55pm

There's a fat dollop of good news for iPod touch owners, too. Apple has added five new apps for the full-screen iPod: mail, maps, stocks, notes and weather. Yes, just like on the iPhone. Maps work just like on the newly updated iPhone, and position triangulation works the same, too.

You'll also have the iPhone's new 'Web clips' feature, customisable home screens, chapters and alternate languages, should they be upgrade for uses.

But there's a catch, and it comes with a specially brewed side portion of fail: this will cost you £12.99 for the software update, despite it having already been built for the iPhone. Cheeky buggers. Unlike for everything else, the audience didn't clap at the news of this charge.

We raised this issue with an Apple rep who told us, "It costs more to do business in the UK," which didn't help us much.

New models of the iPod touch will come with this software update pre-installed for the same prices they always have been. We were told existing models that ship with the old software will be sold at a discount equivalent to the cost of purchasing the upgrade.

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