Charitable Accessories
IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 1 // -- Apple's iPods and iPhones are 2007's hottest holiday gifts. And for the fourth year in a row, leading independent publication iLounge.com has published the world's best guide to these products and their accessories: the 2008 iPod + iPhone Buyers' Guide is now available as a free download in the popular Adobe PDF format.
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"Our 2008 Buyers' Guide helps iPod and iPhone owners focus quickly on the best of what's available, and what's coming soon," said Jeremy Horwitz, Editor of iLounge.com and the Guide. "Whether you're looking for help choosing an iPod, a clock radio, new earphones, a case, armband, or a gift for a special someone, the Guide makes it easy, and provides objective, honest information to help you pick what's best for you."
Released today, this year's Guide packs practical buying advice, amazing photography, and iLounge's annual Best of the Year awards into 132 incredible pages that can be read on any PC or Macintosh, as well as the iPhone and iPod touch. The Guide also features exclusive sneak peeks at 20 never-before-seen iPod and iPhone accessories, including the brand-new 2007 Griffin iTrip FM transmitter, the first-ever video-camera equipped iPod dock, and an iPod-to-computer connector small enough to fit inside a chrome keychain.
In addition to dedicated "Speakers as Art," "Gifts for Her," "Gifts for Kids," and "Budget Gifts" sections, the Guide includes a special section on Charitable Gifts: iPods and accessories where proceeds go to worthy causes. iLounge's editors spotlight Soldiers' Angels, a non-profit organization that accepts iPod donations to send to military personnel, to help get some of the world's 120 million iPods into the hands of fatigued recipients.
Other key sections of the 2008 iPod + iPhone Buyers' Guide include:
-- New and Used iPod Buying Advice: A special eight-page section shows you which major retailers offer the best prices on current iPods and accessories, as well as average eBay auction prices for every past iPod. Our editors offer expert advice on how to sell your old iPod for the maximum possible amount, and reasons why old models continue to be compelling today.
-- Best of the Year Awards: With over 1,500 products rated in the new
Guide, and the top 125 featured inside, iLounge's editors pick the top
18 for "Best of the Year" awards. Stand-out cases from companies such
as Marware, SwitchEasy, Power Support, and PDO are recognized, along
with speakers from Griffin, Logitech and XtremeMac, earphones from JAYS
and Shure, and others. The year's Accessory of the Year -- NLU
Products' thin, scratchproof iPod and iPhone cover BodyGuardz -- is
recognized, along with Logitech as the iPod Accessory Maker of the
Year.
-- The Holiday iPod Photo Contest and iPhone nano Concept Contest: Top
entries in our most recent contests share impressive visions of future
iPhones, and beautiful images of iPods in holiday settings.
-- The New iLounge.com Web Site: A peek at our upcoming top to bottom
redesign, coming soon.
-- The History and Future of the iPod: Our annually updated timeline looks
back at six years of iPod history, while the Guide closes with
predictions as to upcoming iPod, iPhone, and iTunes developments.
"We are proud to once again deliver this Buyers' Guide at no cost to iLounge readers," said Dennis Lloyd, Publisher of iLounge.com. "Each year's Guide furthers our mission of providing unbiased, timely information to a growing community of Apple product users, and this year's edition is most definitely our best yet."
The 2008 iPod + iTunes Buyers' Guide is available immediately from http://www.ilounge.com/2008bg/ . Widely heralded as "the iPod Bible" iLounge's million-downloaded Free iPod Book and previous years' editions of the Buyers' Guide can also be downloaded at no charge from http://www.ilounge.com/library/ .
About iLounge
Headquartered in Irvine, California, iLounge Inc.'s iLounge.com is the world's leading resource for iPod and iTunes information, not affiliated with or owned by Apple Computer or any other vendor of iPod accessories or services. Founded only days after Apple announced the first iPod in 2001, iLounge has exploded in popularity, today boasting millions of visitors and tens of millions of page views each month. Its editorial content is in no way influenced by advertising, paid placements, or other unsavory practices. iLounge has been hailed by publications such as Forbes, Time Magazine, cNet, and The Wall Street Journal as the leader in iPod-related information online, the former deeming iLounge "the ultimate in product reviews and tutorials on all things iPod." The site, its publisher and editors have been spotlighted by the Associated Press, CNBC, The Guardian (UK), Italian Vogue, The Los Angeles Times, National Post (Canada), The New York Times, PC Magazine, Reuters, Stuff (UK), TechTV, The Age (Australia), The Sun (UK), and USA Today, amongst many other leading newspapers and magazines worldwide.
