Apple has announced that it has introduced a new range of iPods in India to coincide with the festive season. The new range varies from the 1GB iPod Shuffle starting at Rs2,300 to a 32GB iPod Touch at Rs21,100.

THe iPod Nano is now available in eight colours such as silver, purple, blue, green, orange, yellow, pink, and black, it also sports a curved aluminum enclosure.

It comes wit the option of an 8GB or 16GB flash drive and holds up to 2,000 or 4,000 songs in 128-Kbps AAC format.

When fully charged, music playback time is up to 24 hours and video playback time up to 4 hours

The second generation iPod Touch is smaller and lighter and features a thin contoured metal design, a 3.5-inch widescreen glass display, 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi wireless networking, integrated volume control buttons, built-in speaker and accelerometer and other advanced sensors.

It has options of 8GB, 16GB, or 32GB flash drive and can hold up to 1,750, 3,500, or 7,000 songs respectively in 128-Kbps AAC format and hold up to 10 hours, 20 hours, or 40 hours of video and when fully charged.

The Touch has a music playback time up to 36 hours and video playback up to 6 hours.

The 120GB iPod Classic, with up to 36 hours of audio playback time and a 2.5-inch color displaycan store up to 30,000 songs, 150 hours of video, 25000 photos, or any in combination.

It has a music playback time up to 36 hours when fully charged and video playback time of up to 6 hours.

Portable media player maker Cowon has announced the launch of its latest model Cowon S9 in the Indian market.

Initially, Cowon S9 was seen at the IFA in Berlin.

Coming with a stylish 3.3 inch AMOLED display, Cowon S9 comes with music, video, and photo playback plus lots of other exciting features that include 500Mhz Dual Core CPU, T-DMB TV, Bluetooth, FM tuner, voice/radio/line recording, a Flash player, and a text reader.

The device, which sports a 16:9-formatted OLED screen set at a 480×272-pixel resolution, has an impressive 40-hour music playback capacity on a single battery charge.

The S9 will be available in three different capacities including 4GB/8GB/16GB. A top-of-the line 32GB version too is on the anvil.

The PMP backs up AVI, WMV video formats, Xvid, SP/ASP, WMV9 SP/MP video codecs and MP3, WMA, FLAC, OGG, WAV, APE of audio formats and MPEG1 Layer 1/2/3, WMA, FLAC, OGG Vorbis, OGG FLAC audio codecs.

The price has not been announced till now.