Apple Rumours floating about...Nano Redesign, iPod Touch...


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Digg.com's Kevin Rose has posted on his blog and made a YouTube video with supposed inside info to apple's udpates in September.

- Revamp of entire iPod line which has been circulating for a while now.

- Small cosmetic changes to Touch, Nano to see significant redesign

- iPods to see fairly large price drops to distance itself from the iPhone.

- iPod touch 2.1 software, iPhone to get update very soon after.

- iTunes 8.0 to include new features.

- Blu-Ray support coming in Mac OS X 10.5.6

Kevin Rose is an idiot, he made predictions about how the 3g iphone would have a front facing camera, and that the iphone would be in CDMA as well as GSM and that it would have a slide out keyboard.

Id take anything he says with a grain of salt.

It looks like outer packaging for what COULD be a new iPod Nano inside.

But it's just ugly.

Heres an idea for a new Nano: Don't change it. Just bring out more colours. Or maybe even some patterns. HP are doing it with their laptops - why can't Apple do it with iPods? :p

It looks like outer packaging for what COULD be a new iPod Nano inside.

But it's just ugly.

Heres an idea for a new Nano: Don't change it. Just bring out more colours. Or maybe even some patterns. HP are doing it with their laptops - why can't Apple do it with iPods? :p

Well, they're are supposedly going to make "rainbow" colored iPods... don't ask why. :D

I really don't like the way the actual plastic casing on the screen is raised from the screen itself (especially that much), this will lead to horrific glare issues (just check out the screen there, if it's that bad with fake light, imagine it in the sun). I hate to say it (as it'll probably rile up a few people round here), but it looks like a Zune clone with the iPod wheel slapped on.

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Are there pretty obvious similarities or is it just me?

All in all though, I don't like the direction that nano is going. I'd much rather see a touch screen nano, similar to the iPod Touch, except smaller. They could redesign the interface fairly simply, too. Even web browsing would still be possible (I've been web browsing on phones since I got my Nokia 3510i, lol), although it'd probably more similar to current phone web browsing rather then PC-quality browsing.

Edited by The Tjalian

Given KR's track record on Apple rumours, he might be right. I think the Nano lineup is going through way too many changes, not much differences from 1st to 2nd gen, but 3rd gen and 4th gen are completely different, I think they need to be consistent.

I can see the iPod touch getting a cosmetic update to make it look more like the iPhone 3G, and possibly the inclusion of a white iPod touch.

I doubt Apple will give up the chrome back. But who knows.

I get the feeling that at this point even Apple doesn't really know what to change anymore to really improve the product. Change for the sake of change. :p

I really like the MacBook Nano photoshops that are floating around, they're great looking but I'd imagine they wouldn't cost a penny less than the current MacBook Air notebooks.

My Mac days are over as soon as they started, my MacBook wouldn't wake up from sleep mode. Tried taking out the battery and everything and it was still dead. So I had no choice but to return it.

My Mac days are over as soon as they started, my MacBook wouldn't wake up from sleep mode. Tried taking out the battery and everything and it was still dead. So I had no choice but to return it.

Oh, you bought one? Couldn't wait any longer, huh ;) ?

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