Now in its sixth year, the world’s most popular iPod + iPhone Buyers’ Guide has been expanded and refreshed for the 2009-2010 holiday buying season!

Now with 50 more pages than last year’s edition, the 200-page 2010 iPod + iPhone Buyers’ Guide is packed with information on the latest and greatest new accessories, apps, and games, featuring over 20 different sections. Here are just some of the great things you’ll find inside:

100 Best iPhone and iPod touch Games: Spanning 20 pages, this look at the 100 best iPhone OS games spans many genres, aesthetic styles, and prices—only the very coolest titles we’ve played in the last year have been included.

100 Essential iPhone and iPod touch Apps: With roughly 100,000 apps available, it’s harder than ever to know which are worth your hard-earned dollars; we do the work for you in this 10-page section, which spotlights the 100 applications our Editors have found legitimately useful and worthy of their prices over extended periods of time, rather than just flash-in-the-pan releases.

iPod, iPhone, and Accessory Guides: As always, we bring you the most up-to-date information possible on Apple’s new lineup of portable media players, phones, and third-party companion accessories—from cases and batteries to speakers, headphones, and car accessories—to help you make the purchase that’s right for you. In addition, we offer a list of just-gathered used selling prices for iPods and iPhones, so you’ll know what to expect whether you’re selling your old model or picking up a legacy iPod for a fan in your family.

Best of the Year and Readers’ Choice Awards: Find out which Apple products, accessories, developers, apps and games our Editors—and readers—held in the highest esteem in 2009 with a look through our Best of the Year and Readers’ Choice Awards galleries.

Exclusive accessory Sneak Peeks: See the latest accessories from JBL, V-Moda, Scosche, Incipio, and others, including beautiful new speakers, metal DJ-style headphones, and much more.

iPod + iPhone History and iGlossary: Take a stroll down memory lane with our comprehensive timeline of iPod and iPhone history, with the unique features, pros, and cons of each model listed, and bring yourself up to speed on all the technical jargon surrounding Apple’s media devices with our new iGlossary section.

Design the Apple Tablet Contest Winners: Find out who won over $1200 in prizes in our Design the Apple Tablet Contest, and enjoy a gallery of the winners, runners-up, and notable entries.

Complete Color Charts for all iPod and iPhone models: With a complete refresh of the iPod nano and iPod shuffle color lineups, the number of different hues available has only expanded further. We round up all the iPods and iPhones for a comparative photographic look at the many different colors of the Apple rainbow.

Brand New iD the iPods + iPhones Contest: Browse the Guide to get the details (and useful clues!) for our latest contest: don’t miss your chance to win one of three speaker systems from Boston Acoustics, and a new iPod touch!

As in past years, our 2010 iPod + iPhone Buyers’ Guide is a completely free download. You have a choice between two versions: one is in book-style two-page spread format, which is best for monitors 15” or larger on the diagonal. The other is a full-screen single-page format, available in separate versions for viewing on monitors that are smaller than 15” on the diagonal, and for touchscreen devices including the iPhone and iPod touch. Please download only one version so that others can get their copies quickly. PC users should have Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 or later. Mac, iPhone, and iPod touch users can use Safari.

Please tell a friend about the new Guide! We welcome you to share it on your file-sharing network of choice, with friends through e-mail, or though a mirror link (post in comments below). Enjoy!

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Really like your buyer’s guide. Good job. Next time, create bookmarks in the PDF for better navigation… essential for a large PDF.

By Mark Finch on 11.05.09 at 08:38 AM

What should I say? Many thanks.

By Ningning Hu on 11.06.09 at 02:37 AM

Any way of printing a section of this without burning through 3 ink cartridges -that black backdrop isn’t too printer-friendly.

By GAN on 11.15.09 at 05:26 PM

How do I download the pdf so I can see it on my iPhone?
Thanks

By Paul on 11.19.09 at 11:15 AM

I’ve tried to download both versions of the 2010 Buyer’s Guide on my imac osx 10.4.11 with adobe 5.1 installed and neither version opens. I get a message saying the file won’t open and is irreversibly damaged?

Any suggestions?

Thanks

By Ray on 11.19.09 at 04:08 PM

Re: 5 above I did open the Buyer’s guide in Adobe Reader 9.2 for Macs

By Ray on 11.19.09 at 04:41 PM

Awesome, I love these buyers guides from you guys. Excellent work!

By Josh on 12.06.09 at 06:43 AM

Hey Ray >> Get a PC.

By User on 01.11.10 at 07:25 AM

thanks man!

By Leinad on 01.29.10 at 02:42 AM

when copying CDs to my Ipod all are copied but some must be searched for under the album to find them and they are there but searching for the same CD by artist does not find it

what am i doing wrong ????

By ian shanks on 01.31.10 at 11:39 AM

Love the guides you guys issue every year. Thank you. I agree w/ other comment about having bookmarks in the PDF. A bookmark to each section, like cases, headphones, accessories, games, etc would be very helpful when navigating a big PDF.

By Jason E on 02.06.10 at 02:43 PM

I have a Bose SoundDock Digital Music System that I used with my 2nd, or 3rd, generation 8 gig Nano. I was able to charge and listen to my ipod at the same time. Now I have a 4th generation 16 gig Nano, but it doesn’t allow me to charge while listening. Are there any adapters or inserts available that will allow me to do both with my 4th generation nano using the same SoundDock?

By PT on 02.22.10 at 05:33 PM

Highly recommended.

By Mike Picar on 02.27.10 at 08:58 PM

i’m afraid i too am unable to download the pdf from my desktop to my ipod touch…it just doesn’t sync anywhere…

help would be appreciated..

thanks…

By db on 02.28.10 at 02:06 PM

Meine Tochter ist z.Zt. in USA und möchte sich dort aine ipod station kaufen. Kann sie diese dann später auch in Deutschland verwenden?

My daughter lives in the U.S. for some month and wants to buy there an i pod station. Can she use it as well in Germany when she is back home?
Please, tell me, if you have own experiences about this question!

By Jutta Bruzi on 07.22.10 at 11:31 PM

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