Mophie Juice Pack for iPod touch packs a wallop

The battery built into the Apple iPod Touch can last up to 23 hours if you're just listening to music--but who uses a touch just for music?

Watching movies, playing games, streaming radio, and browsing the Web can quickly zap your iPod's battery. Anyone who's been stuck in the middle of nowhere with a useless, dead iPod has had to learn this lesson the hard way.

If you need enough power to make it over the long haul, the Mophie Juice Pack is an external rechargeable battery that doubles the battery life of the iPod touch. Unfortunately, it also doubles the thickness of the touch and it doesn't come cheap.

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iPod touch and nano blueprints revealed?

Sources at iLounge have unearthed two compelling design blueprints for Apple's next generation of iPods. While dimensions and blurry photos of the 4G iPod nano redesign have been floating around for a few weeks, this is the first alleged iPod touch redesign we've seen.
The supposed blueprints, often offered to third-party accessory manufacturers prior to an iPod release, don't reveal much in the way of shocking new details. If the specs are correct, we'll see tapered edges and rounded backs on both the 4G iPod nano and 2G iPod touch, as well as a badly needed volume rocker switch on the touch. Dimensions also point out slight millimeter increases in the length and thickness of the touch, and one of the skinniest nanos to date (6.08mm thick).

We'll see how well these blueprints bear out next Tuesday. If these modest redesigns are correct, I suspect next week's biggest news will be improvements to Apple's iTunes software and steep reductions to the price of the iPod touch.

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Sony tries to dispel PSP 3000's battery issues

Last week, GameSpot posted an interview with Sony PlayStation's director of Hardware Marketing, John Koller, in which he gave us a video tour of the upcoming PSP 3000.

In case you missed the initial announcement, the PSP 3000 isn't all that different from the current "Slim" PSP, the PSP-2000, but it has a built-in mic for Skype calls (and other voice features in games), 480i output for older TVs, and a more vibrant anti-reflective screen that should allow you to view the screen--and play with the device--much better outdoors. However, Koller said in his interview that the jacked-up screen would suck more power than the old screen and thereby reduce battery life by about 20 to 30 minutes.
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Apple makes September 9 iPod event official

Apple has sent out invitations for a music-related event next week, and the smart money is on new iPods.
The invitation, titled "Let's Rock", went out Tuesday morning inviting media to the Yerba Buena Center for the Performing Arts in San Francisco next Tuesday at 10am PDT. Rumors have been building for weeks that Apple is set to introduce new iPods at what will be its fourth September iPod event in as many years.

We'll be there, and we'll be live-blogging the event, so make sure to come back here next Tuesday.

UPDATED 10.30am: We've been expecting Apple to hold a September iPod-related event since March, when audio chipmaker Wolfson informed its shareholders that it had been shut out of the design of next-generation media players from "a major Tier 1 customer" who planned a third-quarter launch. Launching in September gives Apple plenty of time to build distribution and marketing for new iPods ahead of the holiday shopping season, when the company sells the bulk of its iPods for the year.

But what exactly do Steve Jobs and Co. plan to trot out during this episode of their trademarked special event? When we conducted our iPod poll back in May, readers said the two things they wanted most in a new iPod were more capacity and wireless connectivity.
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