Among all the buzz today about Apple's new range of iPods, the key news here at the Wireless Weblog is, of course, the fact that the iPod is finally getting Wi-Fi. Not on the full range of new iPods, of course - only on the iPhone-like iPod touch.

And along with the Wi-Fi functionality comes plans for a Wi-Fi version of the iTunes music store, along with a T-Mobile/Starbucks tie-in.

According to infoSync World, Apple may just have launched its own iPhone killer - the ipod touch is essentially the iPhone without the cellular radio. "Everything that's great about the first-generation iPhone is now available through the iPod touch," the article states.

And as Wired's Adario Strange notes, who needs an iPhone when you could have an iPod touch + Skype? "It doesn't take a lot of imagination to envision a scenario that has iPod touch users accessing Skype or a similar service en masse, eventually making iPod Touch VoIP users more popular than AT&T iPhone users. Of course, Apple would never admit to such possibilities, but the implications are clear enough."

Still, as TMCnet's Tom Keating points out, there is one roadblock to that scenario, at least for the first-generation devices. "The iPod touch doesn't have a microphone, so you can't have two-way voice," he writes... but I can't imagine it'll be long before that changes.

More here from Macworld ... more here from VNUnet ... more here from the Independent ... and more here from Reuters.