'The Beat Goes On' Rumor Roundup
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The iPod also has Games, Notes, Calander, Contacts...etc...you need more...I suspect it will look like the iPhone...the bottom four will be Music, Videos, Pictures, and the new iTunes Store...the rest on top will be Calander, Notes, Youtube, Games, etc...
What's your point? While the resolution is the same, there's certainly an argument to be made that a bigger screen is better. If they were to make the screen bigger, even without increasing resolution, you wouldn't consider that an improvement?
newguineafan
macrumors member
Yeah, I think I kind of agree with you. Although the simpler look is pretty cool, with all of the features you mentioned, I think it would be kind of hard to pull off.
But who knows??
newguineafan
macrumors member
I know for a fact that I wouldn't. I'm no screen expert, but wouldn't that make the screen more pixely? I'm not sure.
As long as they increase resolution when they make the screen bigger, it'll look good.
Also, I understand having the home bottom on the bottom, but what would be above the screen? The iPhone has a speaker for the phone, nothing else...I still think the whole front might be a screen, with the home button on the side.
Also the new iPod should have speakers (hopefully two since it does not need a mic input, cause the iPhone's single speaker is not great).
Oh God No!!!!!!
Please don't give the iPod speakers.
The chavs would have a field day on the buses. Its bad enough with the tinny speakers on phones.........
At the current resolution, I am sure they can squeeze another 1/2 Inch out of it...bigger than that though, and they need to up it...
I can't see the iPod getting a bigger screen than the iPhone...these two products will likely be on similar paths in terms of their construction...again though, we all shall see tomorrow.
May have been mentioned in one of the countless posts on this event, but the Guardian is reporting that the whole thing is being streamed live to BBC Television Centre in the UK - suggesting an expansion in BBC content on iTunes to go with the new widescreen iPod? Would be amazing to have 7 day catch up syncing straight to the new one....
Then again, could be nothing! Link
Then again, could be nothing! Link
The pixels are bigger, but so is the picture overall.
A 12" and 32" ntsc television have the same resolution. Do you really think the 32" one isn't better? Would you be just as happy watching the small one?
Same goes for HDTV.
Would you say a 52" 1080p tv isn't any better than a 32" 1080p TV?
I think there's plenty to bash about the zune, but to insist that a bigger screen isn't an improvement seems like RDF at its best.
ABM
macrumors regular
I totally agree!
KT Tunstall to play at Apple event
We now know who the musical act (or one of them) will be at the event anyway - KT Tunstall was approached and asked to play at the event ... she did a gig in Glasgow on Sunday night and was mentioned in the Radio 2 interview after the concert ...
Jon
We now know who the musical act (or one of them) will be at the event anyway - KT Tunstall was approached and asked to play at the event ... she did a gig in Glasgow on Sunday night and was mentioned in the Radio 2 interview after the concert ...
Jon
nemaslov
macrumors 6502a
Maybe Moby Grape?...I went to Golden Gate Park this past Sunday for the 40th Anniversary of the Summer of Love. All day free. A wonderfully Sunny day!
The Beat went on.... http://www.2b1records.com/summeroflove40th/
A special Grape iPod???
padmasana
macrumors member
I've thought the same thing. I don't think Apple will give up on this -- it makes too much sense in the whole scheme of things with the AppleTV.
I bought a Hi-Fi right after they were announced and a research firm called me a month or two later asking what I liked/disliked about it and what features I'd like for the future. So hopefully, that was a sign they planned to develop it further.
I'd love for it to accommodate streaming. That would make perfect sense if they are also going to put some wifi capability in the iPods.
Oh, who knows?
It's nice to dream, though.
gadgetgirl85
macrumors 68040
Just on another topic...do you think there will be any new colours introduced to the high end iPods or changing of the material to like what the nano is? or still black and white
I've always wondered about this myself.
These days, I think that maybe the Apple "Legal Team" is just a couple guys in the marketing department broom closet with an open web browser window and a red telephone.
Buschmaster
macrumors 65816
I can think of one iPod with a camera in it.
williedigital
Cancelled
What do you think Apple's response is to "why wont it do safari/ichat/etc?"
Also, wouldn't it be more likely to be an "itunes remote" since the Apple TV requires a computer running an itunes library?
Ember Whimsy
macrumors newbie
I'd personally love to see colors for the larger iPod's... then I'd actually buy one. I'm a bit of a green nut, admittedly. XD
Anyone else have opinions about that? Do you think it's possible in the future?
Unspeaked
macrumors 68020
I can see the iPod getting a bigger screen than the iPhone.
I mean, I don't think it's likely, but I totally think it's a viable idea: the iPod is made primarly for the interface with the screen (video/music) while the iPhone places less emphasis on this (talking).
If this is Richard Branson I am excited, if it's whoever is in charge of Starbucks, it's more of a shoulder shrug.
I'm hearing rumors of Apple getting into music "production"-- which I assume means one more step up the latter of distribution, unless Steve is in a band we haven't heard about. I wonder if the announcement will be Apple buying out one of the big record companies. It could afford to buy most of them for cash.
Unspeaked
macrumors 68020
Perhaps this just further confirms the Beatles rumor... I mean, that would be even bigger news in the UK than the States.
And KT might very well be covering a Beatles track...