All of you might already know that there was an Apple event earlier today and despite no announcements on the fabled Apple Tablet, Apple still had a few things up its sleeves.

The return of Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs returns

First things first, Steve Jobs is back! He said that he is greatful to everyone, especially to the mid 20 year old guy who died in a car crash as he is now using his liver.

After that, he announced that the iPhone and the iPod touch will have a new OS, the iPhone/iPod touch OS3.1. New features include Genius for App store, where the feature will recommend applications to you based on the the apps that you have installed in your devices.

iPhone OS gets updated to 3.1

iTunes 9 was also announced and will feature plenty of new stuff. You can now organize your applications on your devices on iTunes. No more going through the pages of apps on your iPhone/iPod touches. Home Sharing is another new feature where it lets you share your songs, videos and even applications to up to five devices within the same network. It’s really easy as well since it’s just drag and drop.

I’m not too familiar with LPs (I’m not that old) but it seems that iTunes LP will re-enact memories from buying LPs. LPs will come with lyrics, live performances videos, interviews and much more.

Games demo followed after that with some really promising games like the HALO-esque Nova, Riddin Ribbon, Madden NFL 2010 and Assassin’s Creed. With resource hungry games like this, I knew that there’s gonne be a new iPod touch and I was right!

iPod updates

New iPod line-up

Well the iPod touch is not really “new” but it does have Open GL 2.0 and there is a 64GB version! Prices of most iPods have dropped as well!

Updates on the other iPods include a storage bump for the Classic, from 120GB to 160GB, new colours for the shuffle, as well as a stainless steel special edition one.

The biggest announcement of the event has to be the fifth generation iPod nano, and it now features a camera! The new nano has a larger 2.2 inch screen as well to act as viewfinder. It’ll also be built with an FM Radio in it but who needs radio when you have your own play lists? You can also blast your music with the nano’s built in speaker and record voice clips using its microphone. Nike+ owners will also be delighted to find that it has a built in pedometer to calculate your calories after a workout. It comes with nine colours and it looks to be as slim as the fourth generation nano.

Unfortunately the iPod nano’s camera can’t capture still images. In an interview with David Pogue, Steve Jobs explained that this was because the camera sensors wouldn’t fit into the extremely skinny iPod nano. Well, let’s just hope that camera components grow smaller soon.

I can’t wait for the Malaysian launch and you know that I’ll be bringing you guys coverage from the local event as well. Until then, good night!

Image credits: Gizmodo & MacWorld