US retailer Walmart have announced that the Apple iPad will be available to purchase in it’s stores from this Friday, the 15th of October.

The iPad is available to purchase online at Walmart also however, only for in store pick up. Prices will be based on Apple’s own pricing system for all models. The retailer intends to roll out the Apple iPad line in a few hundred stores initially, with plans for over 2000 stores nationwide to be selling the iPad in a special ‘iPad section’ by the middle of November. Walmart will be offering all 6 models of the iPad to it’s customers, surely a good deal for Apple with the Samsung Galaxy tablet making it’s way across the US in hot competiton with the iPad.

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Apple have once again updated their iPod range. The iPod Touch has been updated, along with the iPod Shuffle and iPod Nano and all will be available from September 10 onwards. This will be the fourth gen edition of the iPod Touch and iPod Shuffle, where as the iPad Nano is now in it’s sixth generation.

The iPod Touch now has a front facing and rear camera. The FaceTime app has also been added, which has received much publicity from being on the iPhone, as well as being featured in many TV commercials. While the iPod Touch doesn’t have cell phone capabilities, you will be able to make video calls with the MP3 Player over WiFi. This is made possible with the built in microphone Apple have added.

HD video recording has also been made possible with the use of the rear camera on the device. You will not only be able to record your videos but, edit and share them without having to transfer them to your computer.

The 4th gen iPod Touch also features the A4 processor, as used in the iPhone 4, which will make gaming even more enjoyable. To top it off, Apple have also added a retina display onto the device, making the gap between the iPhone and iPod Touch even less, as the only features that the iPod Touch isn’t capable of doing, is making phone calls, sending texts and other features requiring a cellular connection, it also lacks inbuilt GPS. Despite having more features based on build features, it is thinner and lighter than the current iPod Touch. Pricing in the UK is £189 for the 8GB, £249 for the 32GB and £329 for the 64GB model. Interestingly a 16GB model has been omitted for the line up, forcing users who need more than 8GB to pay the extra for the 32GB, even if all that space isn’t needed.

While Orange may have missed the opportunity to be the exclusive retailer for the Xperia X10 Mini Pro in white (available on Three),  like they are for the full size X10, they haven’t missed the chance with the Apple iPhone 4. Orange have secured the exclusive rights to sell the white model of Apple’s latest iPhone.

The white iPhone 4 was supposed to be released a couple of months back but, Apple delayed the release of the white model in the UK due to the reception issues and some handsets also experienced yellow tinges on the screen.After this, it was discovered that the white model, would not be released until the end of the year but, hopefully we should see it before then. Orange haven’t given out much information and have only commented with “later this year”. There may be only a four months left of this year but, later this year, certainly sounds more promising then at the end of the year.

Comex, the developer of the Spirit and Jailbreakme jailbreaking crack for the iPad and iPhone 4 has now released a ported version of Frash – the application that brought Flash software to the iPad – for the iPhone 4.

Although the application is still in development, the Alpha version has been released and runs on the Apple iPod Touch 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and the iPad.

Apple have today opened their largest store yet and it also marks the 300th store world wide for Apple. The latest store has been opened in Covent Garden, London. London also previously held the title of having the largest Apple store, with the store at Regent Street, which so far, has been the busiest store world wide as well.

Not only does this mark the 300th store world wide, it is also the 28th store for the UK and the 4th for London. Apple have also employed 300 workers for the opening. The first customer arrived a full 24 hours early, at 10am Friday 6th August and came all the way from Pittsburgh for the opening.

The building used, is a Grade II listed building and has been restore using English Oak and York stone. The building also has glass staircases and a large skylight. You can view a video of inside the building after the jump.