I'm not reading to find out, if someone said this.
This is like the '09 Mac mini crap. Maybe the same person?
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That's true. Chances are near 99% (at least in the 90s) that it's getting a camera/mic for pix/vids and what these rumours could be is a discarded prototype. Where's it's placed and the backing is still a mystery.
After all, WD-40 had 39 failures before they hit.
Oh dear ... I'm wrong about this one. Your quote and reply suggests they're your fingers then?
Somebody mentioned that the addition of a GPS would make sense along side the camera to be used for geo-tagging pictures. I think this is an excellent point.
I will be very surprised if the next iPod Touch does not have both a camera (with video), as well as the magnetometer. I now feel about a 50% chance of having GPS. Compared to the cost of doubling the flash storage, with new CPU and GPU (which is a cert), a couple of bucks to add the camera, magnetometer and GPS is kind of irrelevant, and would likely pay itself back many times over through relevant iTunes App Store purchases.
I will be very surprised if the next iPod Touch does not have both a camera (with video), as well as the magnetometer. I now feel about a 50% chance of having GPS. Compared to the cost of doubling the flash storage, with new CPU and GPU (which is a cert), a couple of bucks to add the camera, magnetometer and GPS is kind of irrelevant, and would likely pay itself back many times over through relevant iTunes App Store purchases.
Clunky
Hmmm I think it looks a bit too clunky to be something apple would spruik
Still not convinced yet. If they did a real tear down and showed the guts of the thing and we could see the innards then I'd be more inclined... Another month to go to find out anyways
Hmmm I think it looks a bit too clunky to be something apple would spruik
Still not convinced yet. If they did a real tear down and showed the guts of the thing and we could see the innards then I'd be more inclined... Another month to go to find out anyways
Problem though... How can you geotag a photo you took without wifi??? You know?
AL9o
Erm, quite simply???
Apple could have a small database of countries/major cities linked to latitude/longitude co-ordinates stored on the iPod (which would likely only require a few MB: Like a map), or more likely, when you next connect to your computer or the internet via wi-fi, the country/city position can be determined via "Skynet".
You are aware that GPS simply gives you latitude and longitude estimates, and does not require any sort of internet or cell-phone connection to do so, aren't you? And that Assisted GPS only enhances this process to make it faster?
Maybe somehow Apple can get their spies into the US military and get hold of the military GPS codes. Then our in-car iPod/iPhone GPS could tell us if we're drifting too far from the centre of the lane we're driving in, let alone tell which lane that was.
Why is the US military so bloody paranoid? I mean, it's GPS, not an orbital strike laser system! Anyway, that's considerably off-topic, so I'll stop ranting about crippled GPS now.
It will never have voice control.....Like i said, if they add everything the iPhoen has to the ipod touch, who will bother buying an iPhone then....Th eonly thing missing is cellphone voice/data networks...if all this is added, they might as well just add all that in and just be done with it and say "iPod Touch now with phone features"...
As said before, perhaps people want those but not have to pay a 2 year contract.
Theres nothing worng with adding the features to the touch from the iPhone.
Has it occurred to anyone that if Apple did build that prototype on the front page that they wouldn't use a BRAND NEW shell? If i were just making a prototype, i'd use a scrap shell from a returned/refurb iPod. Only makes sense to recycle.
If the iPod gained a camera/GPS/magnetometer, I think that it'd strengthen the iPhone/iPod market, because those (like me) who can't afford a $149/mo iPhone plan, could just get an iPod and have all the same stuff without being drained every month for cell service.
Just my $0.02
If the iPod gained a camera/GPS/magnetometer, I think that it'd strengthen the iPhone/iPod market, because those (like me) who can't afford a $149/mo iPhone plan, could just get an iPod and have all the same stuff without being drained every month for cell service.
Just my $0.02
ant131531 said:
The iPhone is, and has been for a while, a huge rip-off. It is an iPod Touch + phone calls and SMS, for twice the price. Yet people continue to buy it.
If the iPod Touch gets a microphone (which is almost certain, with video recording) then it is certain to get voice control.
Staphyl said:
Good point, but only as a very early prototype of the innards. Which means that if this is true, this prototype, as I guessed before, will likely have little bearing on what the final product is like, both outside (as you say) and inside. This is even more likely seeing as the iPod was simply discarded.
Yea, it wouldn't really hurt the iPhone market, cuz those users could still get email and youtube and internet anywhere cause of the 3G network. So the iPhone would still be 1 step above the iPod without being crippled by having the same feature set.
iPhone users still have SMS/MMS, tethering, visual voicemail, calling, etc. over iPod Touch users and probably always will.
iPhone users still have SMS/MMS, tethering, visual voicemail, calling, etc. over iPod Touch users and probably always will.
LOL, exactly why there will still be a line of separation between the two even if the iPod gets the new features of the 3GS hah
I still like the idea of adopting the iPhone plastic backing look. That's make the iPod more appealing to me (IMO) Plus would allow more room for the new stuff as well. Also gets rid of the black plastic antenna that everyone is griping about. Not to mention the new iPod is bound to get that fancy "oleophobic" finger resistant stuff. So plan on seeing that, since apple is proud of that on the 3GS.
I still like the idea of adopting the iPhone plastic backing look. That's make the iPod more appealing to me (IMO) Plus would allow more room for the new stuff as well. Also gets rid of the black plastic antenna that everyone is griping about.
Not to mention the new iPod is bound to get that fancy "oleophobic" finger resistant stuff. So plan on seeing that, since apple is proud of that on the 3GS.If the prototype was in fact a "durability test" model, though, Apple would probably want to start with a clean slate, as any tests with an old shell would probably be invalid.
It's unlikely that the iPod touch will get voice control right away, even if it gets a microphone. The touch didn't get street view officially until 3.0, so I wouldn't expect voice for a couple of software updates. Then again, the market's pretty tight.
Staphyl said:I still like the idea of adopting the iPhone plastic backing look. That's make the iPod more appealing to me (IMO) Plus would allow more room for the new stuff as well. Also gets rid of the black plastic antenna that everyone is griping about.
+1 ^_^
Zune vs. iPod Touch
I think the Zune Player is for the iPod Touch a serious contender.
The specs of the Zune:
- 3.3 inch OLED touchscreen at 480x272 resolution
- up to 8.5 hours of video playback,
- 16 or 32GB of storage.
- HD Radio
- ...
- ...
- $220 for the 16GB
- $290 for the 32GB
The iPod must have:
- GPS
- A camera
- A compass
- 64 GB
- higher resolution...
- and a lower price..
I think the Zune Player is for the iPod Touch a serious contender.
The specs of the Zune:
- 3.3 inch OLED touchscreen at 480x272 resolution
- up to 8.5 hours of video playback,
- 16 or 32GB of storage.
- HD Radio
- ...
- ...
- $220 for the 16GB
- $290 for the 32GB
The iPod must have:
- GPS
- A camera
- A compass
- 64 GB
- higher resolution...
- and a lower price..
you remind me of the guy who came on here a week before WWDC and posted "a friend of mine sent me a pic of the next iPhone it'll have OLED and Apple will announce at WWDC that all future devices will be OLED and it shall be 64GB and they're moving around the microphone and headphone jack along with the speaker and it will have that matte back" and more which all seemed quite legit. until the day of WWDC pure BS.
How would Apple include it in the back to school promo if it ends on the day of the announcement?
it's missing the front case because they took it off to show us the insides
I can't wait for the iPod touch 3G CPU and RAM updates.
my iPod touch 2G can't run AP Mobile anymore it'll just crash
my iPod touch 2G can't run AP Mobile anymore it'll just crash
Problem though... How can you geotag a photo you took without wifi??? You know?
AL9o
You don't need wifi for GPS, never have, never will.
- GPS, that would be great but I doubt it'll be real competition without offline maps
- A camera, checkmate
- A compass, why?
- 64 GB, checkmate
- higher resolution, who cares?
- and a lower price, not happening. they're going to double the memory and keep the same prices. I guess in turn it will be lower prices as the 16GB will take the 8GB's place at $229 but pricing will remain the same
I'm no iPod expert but can they really squeeze a GPS, compass, and a camera into an iPod touch without making it thicker?. I've been told that the reason the iPhone is thicker is because it has the extra communication hardware. what communication hardware? in take apart videos all I see are 3 white antennas in the back. thin and easy to pry. if we want to add all these things to an iPod touch they might as well throw on an iPhone back shell and throw in everything along with a big battery and sell it
Hum, I don't know if you realised this but the iPhone is a phone. It can make phone calls over a GSM cellular network (big words, I know). I guess you could qualify that functionality as communication hardware.