Lest we forget, the iPhone had a glint with its share of gaming recently. At a tag of $9.99US, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is now out and running in the market full on.

 The game which was seen in its demo version back in July supposedly has some smart use of the touch screen to flaunt around. Available at all application stores, star wars is showing a good response on the review board.  he Force Unleashed is much awaited by our testing team, which will come out with a full review soon, so do come back and have a look, because apple and star wars together, may have lots of fun to offer.

Now, for once, the iPod has a change. The  ano expected to come out today, has a little detail to offer in its array. With an all new accessibility tab in the interface, the iPod just became a bit more user friendly.

There is evidently an inclusion of the  poken menus which allow listeners to hear the names of menus, song titles, and artists. Besides being a benefit to the visually impaired, this feature may just as well catch on with better driving ethos as it makes unnecessary for the listener to glance off to the screen, while driving. While the feature maybe missing from the previous pod editions, it holds a good chance to put the  ano high in the market.

Come October 8, and Apple would be all set to introduce its new enhanced range of iPods in the Indian electronics market including the iPod Nano and the iPod Touch. The iPod Shuffle as well as the iPod Classic have arrived with numerous advanced features. The Nano happens to be the most mesmerizing in its thinnest avatar, and comes in two models of 8GB and 16GB, priced respectively at Rs. 9,700 and Rs. 12,500. The dazzling color range is no less of an attraction while the built-in accelerometer that shifts between two modes depending on movement ensures smooth transition.

The iPod Touch is all new as well and in collaboration with Nike, provides features like keeping track of our work-outs. Advanced volume controls and a 3.5 inch widescreen glass display are some of the added features. The 8GB Touch is priced Rs 15,100, the 16GB at Rs 19,100, while the 32GB needs you to shell out Rs 25,000.

Apple signs deal to sell iPhones in China and Russia. Report says that China Mobile and Apple are in final talks to supply the iPhone 3G to the masses. In Russia number two supplier Vimpelcom has come out and confirmed it will be bringing the iPhone to the country in the coming months. The third biggest carrier Megafon has also verified claims it will supply the handset.

iPhones have been very famous in grey markets in these countries. However their price is three times those in the US. Apple’s target of selling 10 million iPhones by the end of the year will be achieved soon.

Very soon Apple will launch a new version of iPod nano. The original was designed and released by Apple in 2005. This will be the fourth generation of the nano type. It is currently the highest selling MP3 player in history. The updated version will be slimmer and taller with a large screen which enables to play videos in a widescreen. Imagine a sleek iPod nano.

A new version of iTunes will also be announced soon. Apple’s iTunes allows users to purchase and download music, television shows and movies at reduced prices. The second generation of iPod touch will also release along with the iPod nano and iTunes. Looks like this September is full of surprises.

A new blurred image of 3G nano was seen which is being launched next week. Finally people will be sure that the release was no rumor. There is also good news for people that Apple might keep a sale of few ranges with 2 years’ warranty. This is being done to keep people hooked to iTunes and iPods.

It is true that Apple’s focus has shifted towards the iPhone and iPod touch and a large market for the iPod classic has actually bought nanos. I hope they don’t discontinue the iPod classic. Well, all this will be clarified after the event on September 9, 2008.

Kevin rose is out with news again. He says Apple is very soon launching iTunes 8 at the big Apple iPod event, held next week. The special feature in this iPod will be the Genius sidebar which creates recommended playlists, a new grid view and a new music visualizer.

In addition to this they will also mention about HD TV shows in the iTMS and new iPod nano and Touches. May be we will see some improvement since hi-def is coming to iTMS. iTunes has become so overloaded with functions that people have forgotten what other programs are in it. Now that iTunes will handles iPhone I am sure this will upset us.

Does any anyone know how did we get iPods for sale? I am sure music collectors will be interested in knowing it. It started with the gramophone that was invented by Thomas Alva Edison. The record that played on the gramophone held only one song. Generally we were stuck in our home with our record collections. Gradually when people got busy in their life they had no time to sit and listen to the gramophone. On July 1, 1979, the first Sony Walkman was introduced in Japan. The original blue-and-silver Walkman played cassette tapes. However they were clumsy and stored very few tracks. It stored around 12 to 15 songs only.

It was until 2001 when Apple introduced the iPod. The iPod established itself as the new icon of portable music device. The huge storage space is an iPod’s appealing feature. The first iPod had a storage capacity of 5GB with a high speed of connectivity. You did not have to wait long for a new song to play or music transfer. Today all the iPods for sale offer a storage capacity between 1 GB and 32 GB depending on model. An iPod today holds around 800 audio tracks of various lengths. Not only this, you can also have speeches and interview recordings in it. They use high-speed USB 2.0 connectivity in place of FireWire.

Apple has been one of the companies that still have iPods for sale in the market. Apple understands the trends and accordingly launches products that drive attention. Recently an analyst reported that Apple will hold some sort of media event this September to refresh the iPod line as well as introduce updates to both the MacBook and MacBook Pro lines. There is possibility that late September will bring us new Apple products.