iPod touch Realistic Nano Touch CONCEPT

[copydeskcat]

this is good, and while I do reckon Apple will bring out a nano touch, there's a few things that don't seem to fit...

The only real differences between this idea and the regular touch is capacity and screen size. While that works fine for the current classic and nano, there's a lot more to the touch than can be fit into a smaller device. Otherwise, apple would have just made the touch smaller.

So, if it was just a smaller version of the touch, it would have issues with apps not fitting on the screen, iPhone/touch formatted websites looking terrible and so on. Sure, you could have it set to a smaller resolution or use it on landscape, but then the whole iPod and iPhone form factor goes out the window.

Knowing apple, they'll have something up their sleeve, but I think a shrunken touch is probably a leap too far, especially if it's only going to have about 4gb memory.

 

[jonny5alive]

I had a play around to see what the iPod Touch UI would look like on a smaller screen.

This is what the Home page would look like

I left the icons at the same resolution as the Touch's icons just for usability (make them any smaller and you wouldn't be able to hit the icons with your fingers IMO), but I had to cram up the icon text labels a bit to make even those few default icons fit onto the screen.

Edit: Oops I forgot to include the App Store, Mail, Maps, Stocks and Weather applications, you would need 2 screens just to hold all the default applications.

 

[copydeskcat]

Great picture, but it doesn't answer the issue of how iPhone/Touch formatted webpages will be viewed - ie. stuff like the mobile version of iTunes, App Store etc. - not to mention Apps themselves. Everything is formatted according to the screen size of the iPhone/Touch. Maybe Apple have something figured out already?

Ordinary webpages could be viewed fine, because of Safari's tap-zoom feature - but it still causes problems for developers of Apps. Either Apps would be squashed to fit this smaller screen size, or they would have to be re-designed to fit the "nano" screen.

 

[4DThinker]

The Nano Touch could simply resize the App graphics on the fly. Much the same way most PCs do. So long as the screen is the same height/width ratio, it should be a trivial problem to solve.

I think to keep the two products seperate, the nano should leave out safari, and possibly even the Touch/iPhone Apps. It would keep the cost down, and still be a great product.

 

[Cabbit]

I think a ipod nano touch would require a simpler interface perhaps keeping to just the itunes portion of the iphone with cover flow.
Pretty much the same interface as a current ipod but with navigation done as the iphone is though having no separate apps and home screen just the basics.

 

[JML42691]

I like it, but I do not really see Apple going down the nano lines this early with their touchscreen devices.

 

[zedsdead]

That mockup reminds me how much I want the reflective dock on the iPhone (and the Touch now that they changed it).

I don't understand why it is not an option at least since I hate the metal grate.

 

[ricartedor]

That mockup reminds me how much I want the reflective dock on the iPhone (and the Touch now that they changed it).

I don't understand why it is not an option at least since I hate the metal grate.

The sad fact is that they can't do it now because the icons wabble when the home button is held down and icons are now movable and so it's probably a battery drain to mirror this animation on the dock, before you could move icons it was simply an image that made it look like the dock reflected the icons.