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More Claims of Smaller, Square iPod Nano Next Week, Along With Possible 3G iPod Touch and iLife
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Exactly. remember right now the touch and the iphone is the same just no voice and 3G access. i guess its eatting in the profets as we speek.
Going to bed now,
We get what we get Sep. 1st. love it or leave it, life goes on.
It's been fun
nite nite for me
Could be an all-new iWatch
i don't think Apple would shrink the iPod nano and give it a square screen. Too awkwardly small. I think the nano could get a touch screen and lose its separate click wheel. The click wheel would be superimposed on the touch screen only when needed.
But a square form factor could be just the ticket for a watch-like device. No idea if this has been discussed before, but if so, I apologize. It would run iPod OS with a new "Time" app running in watch mode. And, if it's cheap enough, it could act as a really cool remote for the next-gen Apple TV...
i don't think Apple would shrink the iPod nano and give it a square screen. Too awkwardly small. I think the nano could get a touch screen and lose its separate click wheel. The click wheel would be superimposed on the touch screen only when needed.
But a square form factor could be just the ticket for a watch-like device. No idea if this has been discussed before, but if so, I apologize. It would run iPod OS with a new "Time" app running in watch mode. And, if it's cheap enough, it could act as a really cool remote for the next-gen Apple TV...
Obviously there will be a ton of products which will all run iOS in all shapes sizes and configurations. It won't really matter what they label them.
Apple fans will buy them.
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The only difference it makes in calling it iPod Shuffle vs. iPod Nano is : they can legitimately make it much more expensive ($150 range) if it is called Nano, but would get criticize with the same price on the same machine if it is called Shuffle.
You ever tried to use FaceTime for a voice-only conversation? Or with multiple people (three-way calling)? It does not do either of those well, and that is why it is perfectly acceptable for the iPad and the iPod to do it. Plus it doesn't work over 3G yet anyway, so it is not a big deal.
What Apple does not want is people buying an iPod touch with 3G capability and using the 3G data to make and receive VoIP calls using Skype and the like. Even with the ridiculous data fees, it is too close to an iPhone at that point considering the iPhone is $300 more (without contract).
What I could see happening in the future is the contract-free iPhone pricing going down. It will eventually get to the point where they could effectively discontinue the iPod touch and just sell iPhones at a cheap no-contract "unlocked" pricing.
They won't add 3G to an iPod touch, that will only hurt iPhone sales.
Exactly, why make it worse? They want to get more iPhone users, not less. From what has happened in international markets the thing that helped the most was adding more carriers. Their focus should be on that, not adding 3G to the iPod.
The new iPod Nano is gonna be cool. The form factor can be done. Think the iRiver Clix but much better! 
If the new nano looks like that - awesome! I wouldn't propably buy it, but a fresh idea is what counts for me.
Now that I've seen that mockup, it seems to make way more sense. A tiny device with a small screen, the entire device is the screen, and you can navigate using gestures so that "Back" and "Menu" buttons don't take up extra space. Maybe it could even have some basic Apps, and play video too. I can't imagine having a browser in there though, or any other internet connected app. I doubt they could fit a WiFi chip in there, though anything is possible... We could have a timer, a clock, some simple games and anything the App store developers can come up with for this size though!
I do not understand why some people refuse the 3g iPod touch idea. Maybe they saw the success of the 3g iPad and think it could work for the touch as well.
There has been a 3g iPod touch since 2008.... And I already didn't get the point of having both an iPod Touch AND a phone, now people are supposed to do that with 3g capabilities? I guess people can waist money nowadays... IT'S CALLED AN IPHONE IDIOTS!!!!
No need to call names. You and many others seem to think people I'll get two devices. Some already have a phone.
What I don't get is people said the same thing when the iphone came out.
"a www theres no need for an iphone with out the phone" turns out it became a hit.
A 3g touch would be sweet.
I had an iphone but i didnt like having to lug it around when going to the pub etc so ditched it for an ipod touch and a really small nokia that has 3g/wifi/bluetooth tethering and the battery lasts for over a week.
I much prefer having the freedom to only carry a small device to keep in contact but also the option to bring the ipod touch for maps etc.
A 3G touch means i wouldn't have to jailbreak so i can bluetooth tether to my phone. me want one!
I had an iphone but i didnt like having to lug it around when going to the pub etc so ditched it for an ipod touch and a really small nokia that has 3g/wifi/bluetooth tethering and the battery lasts for over a week.
I much prefer having the freedom to only carry a small device to keep in contact but also the option to bring the ipod touch for maps etc.
A 3G touch means i wouldn't have to jailbreak so i can bluetooth tether to my phone. me want one!