Apple today unveiled an all new iTunes 11. Spoiler alert: it looks amazing.

“We created iTunes because we love music and we’re going back to our roots with an incredibly clean design that keeps your music at the forefront,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “The new iTunes works seamlessly with iCloud, always keeping your entire library at your fingertips, and we’re adding great new features that make listening to your music more fun.”

The redesigned iTunes features a full-window interface on your Mac or PC that’s simpler and cleaner, always keeping your favorite content in front of you. The new library view makes it easier to view your music, TV shows and movies, allowing you to click on the category of content you want to browse and that’s all you will see. The expandable album view allows you to see track listings for an individual album, while letting you continue to browse your music library. The new search feature searches across your entire iTunes library, including music, movies and TV shows. The re-imagined MiniPlayer makes it easy to control your music with a small tool bar, you can skip to the next song or search for something new to play—all without having to open your library. Up Next is a fun new way to see what songs are coming up and queue songs or albums you want to hear next.

However, iTunes 11 will not be available until late October. Interesting, an iPad Mini event is allegedly planned for that month.

Aside from the iPhone 5, Apple also introduced new an all new iPod touch and iPod Nano. Both with new designs.

Apple® today introduced the new lineup of the world’s most popular music players including the incredible all-new iPod touch® and reinvented iPod nano®. The new iPod touch is the thinnest iPod touch ever and features a brilliant 4-inch Retina™ display; a 5 megapixel iSight® camera with 1080p HD video recording; Apple’s A5 chip; Siri®, the intelligent assistant; and iOS 6, the world’s most advanced mobile operating system. The new iPod touch comes in a gorgeous new ultra-thin and light anodized aluminum design, and for the first time ever, iPod touch comes in five vibrant colors. The new iPod nano is the thinnest iPod® ever featuring a 2.5-inch Multi-Touch™ display; convenient navigation buttons; built-in Bluetooth for wireless listening; and the new iPod nano comes in seven gorgeous new colors.

They are available for pre-order this Friday, September 14th, with release the 21st.

Apple just announced the iPhone 5, and it’s a beauty. The iPhone 5 is everything that was previously leaked and more. It includes a taller display, headphone jack on the bottom, three microphones, smaller dock connector, and more.

“iPhone 5 is the most beautiful consumer device that we’ve ever created,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “We’ve packed an amazing amount of innovation and advanced technology into a thin and light, jewel-like device with a stunning 4-inch Retina display, blazing fast A6 chip, ultrafast wireless, even longer battery life; and we think customers are going to love it.”

TheVerge provided a great live blog of the event and now they have a hands on with the iPhone 5 itself.

Make sure to also check out the new iPod Nano and iPod touch!

NFC in the an iPhone has been long rumored now, possibly since last year. The rumor is gaining traction again, but this time because it has been ruled out of the iPhone 5. Jim Dalrymple from LoopInsight, who is known to have deep connections within Apple, has given his signature “Yep” to the AnandTech article explaining how NFC will not be in the iPhone 5.

Brian Klug, Anand Lal Shimpi for AnandTech:

Given the primarily metal backside of the new iPhone, it’s highly unlikely that NFC is in the cards for this generation. In fact, given the very little space at top and bottom dedicated to those glass RF windows, you can almost entirely rule it out.

Yep.

So there you have it. No NFC in the new iPhone.

Apple and Samsung have been battling over patents and infringements for years now, but they recently just went to trial. We’ve heard some interesting tidbits come out of the case from Forstall, Cue, and Schiller. We have also seen some interesting prototypes of Apple products, which were pretty cool.

Judge Koh is currently reading through nearly 700+ questions the jury had to answer. However, for many of them the jury decided that Samsung infringed on most of Apple’s patents.

MacRumors is providing a great analysis of the whole thing.

Samsung damages to Apple is $1,051,855,000 #appsung

— Mike Swift (@Swiftstories) August 24, 2012

The jury has reached a verdict in the case between Apple vs. Samsung. No details have been announced yet, but we will keep you updated!

Looks like we have a verdict in #appsung. Still awaiting official word from the court however.

— Mike Swift (@Swiftstories) August 24, 2012