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Next Generation iPod 'Soon'?

hrmpf said:
the patent doesn't talk about a voice recognition system for iPods- it is merely a voice feedback system- have a look at the patent application or at hrmpf.com
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So very true. Seems that when they said it could be related to the none-touch idea, they really meant it's virtually irrelevant. The patent is for a computer generating a sound file from text so that your iPod or whatever can tell you what you're selecting (so you don't have to look at it), not voice-recognition. It's an interesting idea, but I doubt it's relevant to this discussion. It's more like a none-look than a none-touch idea.
 
Whoever said that "none-touch" probably referred to either a wireless sync or to an optional voice-command system, I hope you're both right. I'd hate to lose the scroll wheel, even if it has to become virtual for a full-screen iPod, but I'd love to lose to wire (though I guess it'd have to remain as an option unless they included the adaptor, which could be expensive, since Bluetooth isn't really an option for something like that).

jW
 
kevmbpro said:
Gee "Skywalker" I bet you are a Mac "fanboy" - anything and everything Apple does is correct, right? I know you can't help but fantasize about having sexual relations with Steve Jobs, but you might want to take your sexual frustrations elsewhere before you become too uptight...
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I would have to agree with Skywalker, Kev, this has nothing to do with favoring or not favoring Apple, but simply about misplaced comments. Some people may find it funny, although I doubt it, I think it was just space spoiled on this forum by being neither relevant nor funny. Please, do spend some more time on these forums before judging like that

EDIT: during this post, the posts I responded too were deleted
 
Thanks for the defense, Macnoviz. Now could you please edit the quote out so no one has to be tortured by that post anymore? I learned long ago that trolls need to be reported and ignored. They cause far less damage than if you respond to them so they have more fodder.

jW
 
Please God NO!

nagromme said:
I consider this confirmed.

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/2178811/

"None-touch," if real, probably refers to one FEATURE of the new iPod (voice control maybe), rather than something that replaces physical controls.
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I'm sorry am I the only one who would feel stupid talking to an inanimate object (besides swearing at the PCs at work... different story).

I can just imagine sitting on a bus having a difficult time deciding what song I feel like that day while people think I'm on the phone...

"Oh Pretty Woman"
"Kiss me"
"Ooh la la"
"If you could read my mind"
"Gonna make you sweat"
"Whip it"
"Down Under"
"Don't stop"
"Hurts so good"
"You might think"
"It's a sin"
"I do"
"In the navy"
"I did it for love"
"Would I lie to you?"
"Have I told you lately"
"A boy named Sue"
"Tempted"
"My Happy Ending"
"Why can't he be you"
"What have I done to deserve this?"
"Enough is enough"
"Evil Woman"

:eek: :eek: :D


By the way, those are all good songs.:)
 
I've used the pocket pc phone (with media player). This is completely touch screen and I have to say, it doesn't work that well without the tactile feedback..............
 
Macnoviz said:
Looks like Wired is going for the gyroscope

http://blog.wired.com/music/index.blog?entry_id=1503436

That would be my bet, too, maybe with a remote motion controller
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but why would you really want to tilt the thing to control it? especially if you have it in your pocket or in an arm strap? it just wouldn't be logical. if you had a motion sensored controller for it... that's just another item to get lost, broken, and hold on to.

i think i'd believe the voice recognition before this. but who knows...
 
Why does U2 only come in 30gb? Why has there not been a major ipod revamp since november and why are the shuffles old enough to be classed as ancient? Come Apple just relase the damn things. I want touchscreen or NONE TOUCH soon. Someone just bust themselves into the hon hai factory and find out.
 
What if on the earphones there is a smal remote like for the iPod hi-fi. I know it doesnt have a click-wheel and is probably too small to have one, but I dont think that there will be a motion sensitive iPod or a voice controlled one.
 
Cobrien said:
What if on the earphones there is a smal remote like for the iPod hi-fi. I know it doesnt have a click-wheel and is probably too small to have one, but I dont think that there will be a motion sensitive iPod or a voice controlled one.
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You may have a good idea, there, maybe they can implement the system of the JBL Creature two speakers, where you just have to touch the buttons to control them.
They could build in the Shuffle system to control your music playback. touch top of right headphone for volume up, bottom for down (tap for one unit, hold for constant decrease) left and right for numbers, and tap the middle to play/pause. This would mean a slightly larger headphone, although not too much different from now. Maybe it will look a bit silly in the beginning, but I guess talking to yourself or moving aroud with your iPod looks equally if not more silly.
 
none touch. wth. I really hope its not motion sensor (how, exactly, would that work? and what would be the point..) or voice controlled (very inconvenient.. lol ) as suggested. Personally I quite like the look of the fullscreen video ipods with touchscreen, so hoping that "none-touch" here doesnt mean to dispell the rumors. though I think it was probably just a screw up in translation or something.
 
Looks like it's gonna happen

Apple just started offering free iPod nanos to college students with purchase of a computer. Same deal as last year with the minis, just before the introduction of the next generation replacements. Time to make space for next generation again?
 
Bet it would look hot...

Bet it would look hot... in something as hot and white as this! :)

Macrumors said:


During Hon Hai's annual meeting, Chairman Terry Gou made a startling, albeit brief revelation about Apple's iPod plans.



Hon Hai manufacturers Apple's iPods among other things. It is unclear what exactly "about to unveil" means, as the rest of the ChinaPost article discusses financial issues up to 5 years out. Also unclear is what exactly Gou meant by a "none-touch" concept, and whether his "next generation iPod" comments were in reference to a 6G iPod (a supposed incremental upgrade of the 5G) or to the rumored 'true' video iPod, or to another iPod model (Nano, Shuffle).

Hon Hai has recently received negative press regarding its iPod factory conditions, and it too soon to know how Apple's investigation into the matter will affect Hon Hai's contract to produce Apple's hardware.

Update: A recent Apple patent describing an audio interface for the iPod could be related to the "none-touch" concept. Patent described at Macsimum.
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sisyphus said:
I'm sorry am I the only one who would feel stupid talking to an inanimate object (besides swearing at the PCs at work... different story).

I can just imagine sitting on a bus having a difficult time deciding what song I feel like that day while people think I'm on the phone...

"Oh Pretty Woman"
"Kiss me"
"Ooh la la"
"If you could read my mind"
"Gonna make you sweat"
"Whip it"
"Down Under"
"Don't stop"
"Hurts so good"
"You might think"
"It's a sin"
"I do"
"In the navy"
"I did it for love"
"Would I lie to you?"
"Have I told you lately"
"A boy named Sue"
"Tempted"
"My Happy Ending"
"Why can't he be you"
"What have I done to deserve this?"
"Enough is enough"
"Evil Woman"

:eek: :eek: :D


By the way, those are all good songs.:)
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Still you would look kind of retarded talking/singing to you iPod........
 
thejadedmonkey said:
I'd be happy with a 4G design, lighted buttons though, and a built-in radio.
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apparently a lot of people disagree with this, but i'd totally love for them to add a radio to it. yes, i know radios in mp3 players aren't the greatest... but they're handy. heck, what if there is severe weather and you're stuck somewhere and all you have is your ipod? turn on the radio and you can find out what's going on...

it'd just be a handy addition, if you ask me.
 
My first post- Hope its a beauty

I cant beleive that no one here has put 2 and 2.

"No touch" doesnt mean a super sensitive display that you can float your fingers across. what it refers to is the apple patent that they were working on that allows a display to also sense, refering to pixels that not only omit light but also sense it. Imagine an ipod that is kind of like one of those flat canon LIDE scaners that emit a thin beam of light to scan your image. Now imagine that those things were scattered amonst the display pixels or below them & able to see thru the emiting display and cover the whole surface area not just a thin "beam". This would mean that all parts of the screen would be able to control the ipod and without touching it "No touch"

You heard it here first!

My second prediction is that this will enable a type of scanning feature that is enabled on japanese phones for you to purchase stuff. "you will see a black and white pixelated image that when you place against the ipod is recognised. It may enable you to purchase music you see in a magazine for eg. or atleast rember it untill you get home so you can purchase it from itunes

This would open the futer of ipods up to "electronic wallet applications. But my guess is that they will hold that feature back untill the "macphone" or "mphone" (i dont think it will be iphone as they seem to be moving away from the i thing) is released.

My second prediction is that "ilife 06" will change to "maclife 07" to reinforce that you can only do all this stuff on a mac. The problem with the "i" phenominen is that its to easily owned without royalty to apple for anyone who wants to associate themselves with the prestige of apple. By apple prefixing all of thier products with mac it means that no one else can prefix a product with mac without infringing tradmark. eg you couldn't just make a harddrive and call it "macdrive" but you could call it "idrive"

MacBook (ibook), Macbook Pro(powerbook), Mac (imac), Mac pro (powermac), minimac or macmini, MacEd (emac), MacServe(er), Mac Life (ilife) etc etc etc

Apple will atlast be able to escape its own success with the istuff and move forward and reclaim its brand identity without having it muddled with all the other inferior istuff (as well as earn a few extra royalties)

Lets wait to see how well my first post went. I've read this forum for years. so yeah im a bit lazy.

Nice to meet you all :)
 
oo, good predictions there. i was talking to a co-worker about it the other day and we were wondering if it would end up being some sort of technology where you put your finger close to the screen, but don't actually touch it. it sounds like that could possibly be on the right course...
 
funkylovebunny said:
I cant beleive that no one here has put 2 and 2.

"No touch" doesnt mean a super sensitive display that you can float your fingers across. what it refers to is the apple patent that they were working on that allows a display to also sense, refering to pixels that not only omit light but also sense it. Imagine an ipod that is kind of like one of those flat canon LIDE scaners that emit a thin beam of light to scan your image. Now imagine that those things were scattered amonst the display pixels or below them & able to see thru the emiting display and cover the whole surface area not just a thin "beam". This would mean that all parts of the screen would be able to control the ipod and without touching it "No touch"

You heard it here first!

My second prediction is that this will enable a type of scanning feature that is enabled on japanese phones for you to purchase stuff. "you will see a black and white pixelated image that when you place against the ipod is recognised. It may enable you to purchase music you see in a magazine for eg. or atleast rember it untill you get home so you can purchase it from itunes

This would open the futer of ipods up to "electronic wallet applications. But my guess is that they will hold that feature back untill the "macphone" or "mphone" (i dont think it will be iphone as they seem to be moving away from the i thing) is released.
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Not sure about the invasion of Mac-, but I do like the scan theory, it is rather remarkable that no-one brought up that rumor yet. So that would mean a multi-touch display+scanning functions on the next gen iPod?

I still think it's not the best way to interpret none-touch, since you have to (nearly) touch your iPod for everything.
One more remark, I doubt if Apple would release a new technology directly into their flagship model, as the risk would be too high, and I agree that we may have to wait for the iPhone to see such technology.
 
funkylovebunny said:
My second prediction is that "ilife 06" will change to "maclife 07" to reinforce that you can only do all this stuff on a mac. The problem with the "i" phenominen is that its to easily owned without royalty to apple for anyone who wants to associate themselves with the prestige of apple. By apple prefixing all of thier products with mac it means that no one else can prefix a product with mac without infringing tradmark. eg you couldn't just make a harddrive and call it "macdrive" but you could call it "idrive"
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The funny thing is that there is already a 3rd party product called "MacDrive" and "iDisk" is trademarked under Apple for their .Mac disk drive.

:p
 
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