And to round out the day’s hardware hands-ons we wrapped our mitts around the new iPod classic. It’s thin, it’s solid, but it’s still hard drive based, which for our flash-loving selves will always be kind of a bummer. But if you’re the type that carries around 80 (or 160 friggin gigs) of media and you like to use iPods, this is the new king of the hill. (Photographed is the 80GB model, not the thicker 160GB iPod.) Unfortunately, tasks like Cover Flow ran about as (un)smoothly as on the nano, so if you’re expecting a fully iPhone-like experience, don’t get your hopes up.

Gallery: iPod classic first hands-on

    

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Ok, we know we’ve been calling it the fatty, but we’ll be straight up with you guys: the third gen iPod nano is friggin’ tiny. It’s maybe not the most beautifully proportioned iPod we’ve ever seen, but its tapered edges and ridiculously thin frame make up for the squatness going on here.

Gallery: iPod nano 3G first hands-on

    

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Here she is, the iPod touch! It’s definitely thinner than the iPhone, and feels completely solid (as we’d hope it would). The home button is far smaller, the face is completely flat, and generally the whole thing feels far more angular than the iPhone — but it’s all familiar territory. We were kind of hoping the touch would have a matte rear screen, but that just isn’t the case, it’s all chrome.

Gallery: iPod touch first hands-on

    

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Apple’s been a little busy it seems, since the company just announced three all-new iPods, plus a few new colors and price points for existing products. From smallest to largest we have the PRODUCT (RED) iPod shuffle, which is accompanied by some other new colors, the iPod nano on the left up there, the iPod classic in the middle, and the iPod touch on the right.

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