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With users finding ways to upgrade their original iPhones to iPhone 2.0, Apple yesterday began touting its iPod touch v2.0 software; although the iTunes Store was off-line, users can purchase the upgrade for their Touch for $9.95. The software update brings push email with Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, contact search, multiple calendars, a scientific calculator, improved Mail attachment viewing, better email management (including bcc for emails), and user-selectable accounts for replying to email as well as updated language, dictionary, and keyboard support (English, French, German, Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Russian, and Polish).

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Amazon.com is currently offering a free 1GB iPod shuffle with the purchase of a 32GB iPod touch. The online retailer lists blue, green, silver, and purple 1GB iPod shuffles as eligible models that customers can add to their shopping cart alongside the 32GB iPod touch. “Just add both items to your cart and you will not be charged for the Shuffle.” Amazon.com lists the 32GB iPod touch at $494 and in stock.

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Apple today quietly slashed the price of the iPod shuffle to $49, dropping the price of the device by more than a third from its most recent price. The discount applies to all color options for the 1GB player and is expected to be available later this morning through the online Apple Store. The company has not yet provided its reasoning for the cut, though the price brings the device closer into competition with the SanDisk Sansa Clip and the ZEN Stone with Speaker, both of which dropped below the $50 price mark in earlier months for a similar amount of storage.

Apple is currently working on releasing the iPod Shuffle 2 GB very soon!

source: electronista.com