Apple will tomorrow unveil revamped iPods - the first without a hard drive - and iPod Nanos at an event to be held tomorrow, if the leaks and rumours of the last few weeks prove accurate. Observers are expecting Apple to take the wraps off a new iPod with a design derived not from past versions of the player but from the iPhone. It appears to be the long-awaited widescreen video-centric iPod, with a big display, touchscreen control, Wi-Fi connectivity and Flash storage in place of a hard drive - as predicted in February this year.
Quite what that will do the player's storage capacity remains unclear at this stage. Certainly, even 32GB of Flash will cost rather more than a 30GB hard drive, for all Apple's billion-dollar deals with Flash suppliers.
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News source: The Reg
Quite what that will do the player's storage capacity remains unclear at this stage. Certainly, even 32GB of Flash will cost rather more than a 30GB hard drive, for all Apple's billion-dollar deals with Flash suppliers.
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Also it will be a phone.
Last edited by JamesWeb on 04 Sep 2007 - 10:50
Aye, and it'd better run Duke Nukem Forever!
Aye, and it'd better run Duke Nukem Forever!
LMAO
+1
Only if you're Chuck Norris.
...that doesn't make it a good thing for the consumer, though, so go roll your eyes somewhere else.
i expect them to use the new 160GB HDD...
Glassed Silver:mbl
Looks like tomorrow, my hopes will be realized
Come on!
I don't really feel ready to replace my beloved Nano just yet but I must admit that more than 4GB of space would be nice...
I don't know why everyone's getting excited either. There's a whole big market of HDD-less music players out there, some really really bloody good ones too that cost like half the price of an iPod, the only difference here will be that it'll have the Apple logo on it.
I don't know why everyone's getting excited either. There's a whole big market of HDD-less music players out there, some really really bloody good ones too that cost like half the price of an iPod, the only difference here will be that it'll have the Apple logo on it.
And the G/UI.
If I had to guess what you will see tomorrow:
1). The Beatles
2). A deal to allow purchased songs to be used as ring-tones for free (and an iphone firmware update)
3). A new flash based nano player with a touch screen, maybe wide screen but much smaller than an iphone and nowhere as much disk space. It will basically be a small upgrade for the existing nano line. I don't see WiFi because of the RIAA and other copyright issues. It will cost more than the current nano player. Apple in response will either kill the nano or more likely the Shuffle (lowend nano becomes the new Shuffle at reduced cost).
4). Nothing about OSX 10.5 at all or any upgrades to the existing line-up of Macintosh hardware.
5). One more thing: Steve Jobs stepping down as CEO of Apple (i.e. beat goes on without me). He will stay on the board.
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