Think of Apple and you think of computers, notebooks, MP3 players, iPhones and iPods. Apple is a prominent player in the field of digital music, thanks to its portable iPod music and video players. The iPod nano is the latest portable music player of Apple belonging to the already fourth generation. With a mere 6mm of depth, the fourth generation Apple iPod nano is extremely flat with a streamlined, oblong design. Half of the front is covered by the 2 inch liquid crystal monitor. The other half carries the click-wheel, so very familiar for the iPod.

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Zynga, the largest social gaming network, announced the launch of “Live Poker,” the first truly live game on the Apple iPhone mobile phone. This mobile version of Zynga’s popular Texas Hold’Em turns the Apple iPhone into an always-on social gaming device. Zynga’s Live poker game turns the iPhone into a social gaming platform. “Live Poker” is the first application to leverage Facebook Connect allowing iPhone users to play with their real friends and access social information such as real player photos.

Freeverse announced Burning Monkey Casino, an incredibly stylish and entertaining mobile casino game for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch, is available on the Apple App Store. Whether your game is Video Poker, Blackjack, or Casino Slots, the Burning Monkey Casino is open 24 hours a day with ultra-mod lighting, major payouts, and a friendly and simple interface.

Field System has updated its original game, “newtonica,” developed for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch platforms, through App Store (priced at US$4.99 including tax). In addition, a free application, “newtonica player,” designed to play the minimal techno tracks composed for “newtonica” by Kenji Eno, is now available as well. “newtonica” is an original game developed especially for the iPhone and iPod touch by two game creators who already have a string of hits to their names, Kenichi Nishi (planning and game direction) and Kenji Eno (sound design and music production).

Apple introduced the second generation iPod touch featuring an amazingly thin contoured metal design, a gorgeous 3.5-inch widescreen glass display, 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi wireless networking, integrated volume control buttons, a built-in speaker for casual listening, a built-in accelerometer and other advanced sensors, and Apple’s revolutionary Multi-Touch user interface. iPod touch, now available for just $229 for the 8GB model, is perfect for playing music, movies and games, with millions of songs, thousands of Hollywood movies and hundreds of games available on the iTunes Store.

The new iPod nano incorporates Apple’s breakthrough Genius technology which automatically creates playlists from songs in your music library that go great together, with just one click. The new Apple iPod nano also features a refined user interface, a high resolution portrait display and a built-in accelerometer which automatically switches to Cover Flow when rotated and automatically goes into Shuffle mode when lightly shaken. The new iPod nano gives users up to 24 hours of music playback or four hours of video playback and is available worldwide immediately in an 8GB model for just $149 and a 16GB model for just $199. Both models come in silver, purple, blue, green, orange, yellow, pink, (PRODUCT) RED and black.

The large amount of patents Apple applied for on behalf of the iPhone makes you expect that this should lead to an exclusive device. However; Continental Mobiles are not satisfied with the exclusivity of the Apple iPhone, and that's why they have their own version of the much-discussed iPhone; a special 24 carat gold iPhone. Even though the Apple iPhone in itself is already a unique device, the combination with the additions of Continental Mobiles ensures that you, as a user, are guaranteed not to meet a similar device. The iPhone, much-discussed even before it came out, had a lot of people in suspense for a long time, after all it is not just a mobile phone.

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As crowds of tech savvy consumers flocked to Apple stores around the country last week for the release of the new 3G iPhone, some savvy entrepreneurs also got into the action. Freeiphoneswap.com street teams, consisting of sales representatives and models, were strategically placed in cities around the country to offer existing Apple iPhone owners the chance to trade their old iPhone for $200 and the opportunity to upgrade to the new 3G phone for free.

Polka, the first and only secure aggregation and collaboration service for managing health, announced its new iPhone Emergency Card application is available on the Apple Application Store. Polka’s iPhone Emergency Card provides essential life-saving information on the extremely popular Apple iPhone and iPod touch devices.

The New York Times announced the release of the NYTimes iPhone application, which gives NY Times readers offline reading capabilities, a photo browser with links to the related articles and personalization options for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch models. Available for free at the iPhone App Store, the NY Times iPhone application allows users to take advantage of the advanced capabilities of the iPhone and iPod touch user interface.