UK Retailer Claims September iPod Touch Refresh to Bring 5-MP Camera, HD Video Recording, FaceTime, and More

[Eidorian]

Data plans will come down in price and become a regular part of any plan. Not tomorrow, but in 2-3 years. That's when the iPod sales will fall into nowhere land. The sales are already falling which means people are looking elsewhere.

Just like broadband internet. Amirite?

 

[CalebF]

this is so fake.

*coughs* Gizmodo's leaked iPhone 4 testing model phone *coughs*

 

[Bytor65]

I think you have your periods and commas switch.. Trying to understand that:
If the iPod touch has EVERYTHING that the iPhone 4 had besides the "phone" capability, and if it is contract-free, I'd probably leave my iPhone 4 asap. Really, I use my iPhone for lots of things other than the "phone" part.

WTH would it have a contract if it didn't have a phone???

What are all these other non phone things you do with the IPhone that you can't do with the current Touch???

The main difference between touch and iphone has always been the phone part.

 

[goobot]

*coughs* Gizmodo's leaked iPhone 4 testing model phone *coughs*

and that has to do with this how?

 

[christian_k]

I did not see an iPhone4 in person yet, but as far as I have read facetime works by switching a normal voice into a video call. The voice call is probably used to exchange some information (like IP addresses) before switching to WiFi completely. At least you call using a normal phone number instead of an iChat account or something.

I think there will be significant changes necessary to implement FaceTime on a WiFi only device that does not have a phone number and phone network access at all.
This is probably the reason why there is no FaceTime capable iChat yet.

Christian

 

[triceretops]

What are all these other non phone things you do with the IPhone that you can't do with the current Touch???

The main difference between touch and iphone has always been the phone part.

Anything that has to do with GPS.

 

[triceretops]

10's of millions?

I think at the current rate of sales of iPhones, they will probably have 10's of millions of FaceTime devices in 2010 even without a new iPod. So I don't think this is a very good argument.

 

[a3363680]

...the iPod touch as some sort of cheap-to-build by-product that will last maybe another 2-3 years, but it will fade away pretty quickly after that.

To those who keep saying that Apple "prefers" to sell iphones versus ipods or that the ipod is on its way out, consider the following article:
http://theappleblog.com/2010/01/28/ipod-touch-now-outselling-iphone/

The ipod is likely outselling the iphone. At the very least the numbers are roughly even. Now consider the fact that the iphone always comes out with its new generation before the ipod touch does, so the iphone always has a better feature set first. And the ipod touch STILL sells as many or more models. Consumers want the ipod touch. Imagine how many units they could sell if it had all the iphone4 features?

Now personally, I have never owned a single apple product, but really want an ipod touch with camera, retina display, microphone, and GPS. When Apple delivers on most or all of these, it will win another convert. If not, I may still consider an ipad. The iphone4 is really cool. But I don't want to spend thousands on an iphone, just so I don't have to carry around 2 devices, phone and ipod. And I don't want to switch cell carriers either.

 

[Panamera]

What I'd want the touch to be...and I know this will always be a pipe dream...but be EXACTLY like the iPhone 4, just without the phone part. Retina display, same camera, same GPS, same gyroscope, same video recording stuff, same everything. I just don't need or want a phone. I don't want to sign away 2 years of my life and $55 bucks a month on a gadget. I know many many others need the phone part, but there are plenty of us out here that don't.

In fact, I'd wish they would do it as a cross between an iPad 3G and the iPhone 4. Same hardware as the iPhone 4...sans the phone....and make it Wife/3G with the same plan you get with the iPad 3G, where you can go month-to-month and opt-out or opt-in at any time.

Again, I'm sure this will NEVER happen because it would sell vast quantities and it's something that people would love to have....but there's always a "gotcha" when it comes to these things.

My thoughts exactly.