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Next Generation iPod 'Soon'?
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Well, in fact I think they would benefit when they release a new iPod around this time:
1. There isn't a lot of news this time of the year, so a new iPod, especially one with a radically new interface, would certainly be covered well in the media
2. Holiday is coming, and a lot of people want to take their music with them outside, and a new cool iPod would be a goo way to do this
3. Exams will be (almost) done, and students will start coming out again, and younger kids may get something for their good grades, and such
and last but not least: October is just SO far away to wait
1. There isn't a lot of news this time of the year, so a new iPod, especially one with a radically new interface, would certainly be covered well in the media
2. Holiday is coming, and a lot of people want to take their music with them outside, and a new cool iPod would be a goo way to do this
3. Exams will be (almost) done, and students will start coming out again, and younger kids may get something for their good grades, and such
and last but not least: October is just SO far away to wait
Macnoviz said:
Lest you forget one thing: holiday season. And by holiday I mean christmas. October is perfect christhas shopping season time. Summer is not.
I'd really like to buy a new iPod this year or next year so I hope they are taking their sweet time by making 6G something amazing. Guess the U2 crap edition iPod is just a stall.
dausone said:
April? According to some random rumor maybe. You could make a case for a new ipod being released anytime if you look hard enough for a rumor to support it.
I like the idea of a voice-control option though. Especially when driving. Here in Connecticut we have a hands-free law for cell phones. While I initally hated it (and still do a little bit), it did make me embrace the voice-dailing option on my phone more than I may have otherwise. And now I like to use that during driving. I always have thought that my iPod is more likely going to get me into a car accident than my cell phone ever will, so I think it would be a nice added feature...
I have to say that this is oddly enough one of the funniest threads in MR I've seen today.
From nagromme elevator photo, to Chundles's Australian authority to Macnoviz's obligitory "new PowerBooks next Tuesday" comment and jTreu's reply...
Of course I've been skimming over the boring speculation posts....
From nagromme elevator photo, to Chundles's Australian authority to Macnoviz's obligitory "new PowerBooks next Tuesday" comment and jTreu's reply...
jTreu said:
Of course I've been skimming over the boring speculation posts....
Chundles said:
If that's true, then it's too late to shop for something that's already in progress, so they might as well wait until summer is over to introduce something fresh
non touch
I know for sure what "non touch" implies.
It's a touch screen interface with sensors which only require you to float maybe a few millimeteres above the screen to be activated. That way your screen won't become messy with fingerprints because you don't actually have to touch it. makes much more sense then voice control. Ar ridiculous idea. I bet my bankacount I'm right.
I know for sure what "non touch" implies.
It's a touch screen interface with sensors which only require you to float maybe a few millimeteres above the screen to be activated. That way your screen won't become messy with fingerprints because you don't actually have to touch it. makes much more sense then voice control. Ar ridiculous idea. I bet my bankacount I'm right.
Sam43054 said:First iPod was in Oct of 2001, Oct 2001 to Oct 2006 is 5 years... They will make a big deal out of it being 5 years!!!!
Like they did for Apple's 30th birthday.
eppel said:
This is the same thought I had way back when the "touchscreen" rumors were coming fast and furious(ly). The technology is already there, the early tablet computers would track a cursor without being touched, I imagine control for a scroll wheel would be easily extrapolated from that.
This begs the bigger question though, why would Apple make a "non-touch" control iPod? The only thing I can think of is to have the widescreen for the front of the device.
The other question is, how is it going to be to manage the controls without touching them? My fingers are cramping up just thinking about it.
Play Ultimate said:Like they did for Apple's 30th birthday.
Took the words right out of my mouth. Of course, given Mr. Jobs' RDF, perhaps 30 years isn't as big a deal as, say, 33 years. We could be in for a stunning celebration in 2009.
eppel said:
I was thinking along the similar lines. Basically a super-sensitive version of the 3G, but of course with the screen across the entire iPod instead of having the actual wheel and buttons.
Problem is, what happens when you put it in your pocket? The heat of your body would play games with it like no other. Would you really want to have to put on the hold switch every time you put it in your pocket?
Maybe the whole "no touch" concept is simpler than people think...
Imagine the front of the new iPods being a screen, and most (if not all) the controls being on the headphones instead instead of the iPod itself.
Imagine the front of the new iPods being a screen, and most (if not all) the controls being on the headphones instead instead of the iPod itself.
Balli said:
Another possibility--or on the remote that headphones plug into. Sony had this kind of thing going for a while with their Walkman/Discman line, even an RF wireless remote on a few selected products.
Could you plug headphones into an RF remote? That is, transmit the music over RF or would it have to be Bluetooth? Maybe the bt rumors have something to do with this.
If it's voice command how are people who buy it suppose to use it in class or something? What will they do with the click-wheel?
WE ARE GONNA LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE IDIOTS ARE SCREAMING AT THEIR iPod TO MAKE IT PLAY A SONG!!!!!
ugh. apple's voice recognition SUCKS!
WE ARE GONNA LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE IDIOTS ARE SCREAMING AT THEIR iPod TO MAKE IT PLAY A SONG!!!!!
ugh. apple's voice recognition SUCKS!
boncellis said:
Hopefully not Bluetooth... Bluetooth is a joke and a half... You'd just listen to your music then suddenly it sound like a solar flare, then back, then solar flare.