If you thought you knew what Apple was planning for its first widescreen video iPod, you were sort of right, sort of wrong.

Surprising the millions of people who expected the company to add a hard disk and remove the cell phone from its iPhone design, the new iPod touch does remove the cell phone, but continues to use flash memory -- now 8GB ($299) or 16GB ($399) of it. The good news is that both versions sport an 8mm thick enclosure that's even thinner than the iPhone, and continue to include the Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) functionality found in the iPhone, enabling you to -- for the first time ever -- browse the Internet from an iPod, as well as access Wi-Fi hotspots to download music directly to the iPod from the new iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store.

In essence, iPod touch is a stripped-down iPhone that shares many of the same applications but adds only two major new features to the formula: video output to a TV, and the option of extra storage capacity. One color is available -- black -- and the headphone port has interestingly been moved to the device's bottom. We'll be updating this piece with additional details and photos shortly.

With the new iPod touch coming out, Apple are again hoping to draw in new customers and user's into using the Apple Family of products. We can be expecting to see the new iPod Touch released later in the states this year.

Photographs of the iPod Touch:

Great iPod
But I'll say go for iPhone if you are buying touch as iPhone also has all these features and has the same price tag and also has the advantage of a phone/mobile handset.