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Video of Next-Generation iPod Nano Touch Screen Surfaces
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Talk about spurious inputs! If this is a touch screen, I can see how it would work ok (try touching a tiny link on an iPhone), however, I hope that they don't intend to do too much with a screen this small!
Still, interesting. Can you imagine the postage stamp movie viewing on this thing?
I really doubt this thing is going to be running iOS. It will probably be similar to the existing Nano's interface. Maybe a few touch gesture stuff added ontop of it. But basically you scroll through lists, tap on a listed item, and use onscreen playback controls. There is not going to be anything advanced like running apps.
They don't show the iPod Touch in the video. They only show the digitizer/screen part which doesn't really give you any idea of what the whole thing will look like.
I do think it will look similar to the iPhone in my opinion though. It will be like the iPhone but even thinner.
the nano screen is tiny (if that's what it really is).
i'm surprised those videos don't have a lot more views, or are taken down
i'm surprised those videos don't have a lot more views, or are taken down
That is just stupid. Why have a touchscreen wheel? It just requires more battery, requires people to learn how to use it, and if you say, "for displaying additional information" you could just as easily make the whole screen bigger if you wanted to do that. That's what the iPod Touch does.
Just stop with this "touchscreen wheel" nonsense.
I agree they are stupid, if by "nano touch" you mean an iPod nano with "iOS functions." An iPod nano with a touchscreen and no clickwheel makes perfect sense to me, as long as it doesn't do anything crazy like run iOS.
The Chinese gov't needs to reinstate their policy of shooting people that steal products like this.
Seriously, who does that dork think he is to get these and splash them on the web?
To hell with Foxconn trying to make workers feel better about their jobs. It's a communist country, and they should start acting like one. Shoot that ********.
It's a shame we didn't hear anyone kicking the door in towards the end of the video ...
I am joking, but only halfway.
I hope so, wanting someone to die over something like this is really stupid. Losing their jobs would be damage enough.
Also it might be a communist country, but Foxconn definitely works in the private sector outside of the normal laws of the country.
An abbreviation of shut the **** up gets starred out completely, but not d**khead?
Exactly. I am very confused how some people think an on-screen keyboard and web browser can fit on a tiny 1.7" screen. I personally don't think it will have WiFi at all, just an accelerometer for games (download from iTunes only) and the existing video recorder. Would make sense to have a home button somewhere also.
Tiny screen is for shuffle, nano gets virtual click wheel?
That's what I've been thinking. It doesn't make any sense at all to cripple the nano with a super-small screen. It does make sense to give the shuffle a screen for the first time, since its sales have been disappointing since the '09 redesign. A virtual click wheel on the 3x3 cm touchscreen makes sense to me. But no video. Just the click wheel and swiping through albums in coverflow (plus track info like artist, album, and of course album art).
That means the nano can also get the virtual click wheel on a larger touchscreen than its current 2.4" non-touch screen. Maybe the 2.8" screen that's been rumored. Both the shuffle and nano should still run iPod OS, which would need to be able to handle touch inputs on their screens.
The iPod touch will presumably will get the Retina display and FaceTime. And maybe Steve will announce iPhone 4 and iPod touch in white too...
That's what I've been thinking. It doesn't make any sense at all to cripple the nano with a super-small screen. It does make sense to give the shuffle a screen for the first time, since its sales have been disappointing since the '09 redesign. A virtual click wheel on the 3x3 cm touchscreen makes sense to me. But no video. Just the click wheel and swiping through albums in coverflow (plus track info like artist, album, and of course album art).
That means the nano can also get the virtual click wheel on a larger touchscreen than its current 2.4" non-touch screen. Maybe the 2.8" screen that's been rumored. Both the shuffle and nano should still run iPod OS, which would need to be able to handle touch inputs on their screens.
The iPod touch will presumably will get the Retina display and FaceTime. And maybe Steve will announce iPhone 4 and iPod touch in white too...
Based on some unsubstantiated photos
Maybe because of some unsubstantiated photos floating around that show wifi bars and a safari browser. I guess we'll see tomorrow.
Maybe because of some unsubstantiated photos floating around that show wifi bars and a safari browser. I guess we'll see tomorrow.
The ones I have seen are not unsubstantiated. They are mock-ups, and are labelled as such.
not sure if anyone else has said this yet but it just occurred to me that for the iPod Touch to get facetime it needs a microphone and if that happens, it will be rather easy to use it as a voip phone... although still stuck using it on speakerphone...
Something I read stated that you would have to use headphones with mic in order to use facetime or skype on the iPod Touch... like the kind sold with the current 32 & 64GB Touch.
彼は彼が述べていることがわからない陽気なホモの日本人である (japanese)
彼は彼がtalkinであるものがについてのわからない陽気なホモの中国人である (chinese)
haha thats my response, i have no clue what he said
This is all Japanese
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The video also briefly shows off black and white iPhone 4s
What is an iPhone 4s?
Was that a typo or is this a iPhone 4 revision?