The Next Ipod 6th Gen?

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The next Ipod (http://www.paulstamatiou.com/2006/02/11/the-next-ipod/)

From Think Secret (http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0602videoipod.html)

[jollyeskimo]

mmmm, fingerprint-y goodness

if they can put in that big an lcd and still have a decent battery life with a small package, then kudos to them

[SMARTT]

nice! :D

[Evil Baby]

Man I said a rival company should have done this like 2 years ago and have somebody leak a ipod wheel hack for it.

[Badger]

Yea, they removed the clickwheel and put it inside as touchscreen. Could be cheaper in production and to prevent damage on it?

[winner2000]

Check this out...apparently it's the patent Apple filed for the "vPod"

http://www.dapreview.net/e107_images/newspost_images/app_pat3.jpg
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Patent Link (http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=4&f=G&l=50www.dailytech.com&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=%22apple+computer%22.AS.&OS=AN/%22apple+computer%22&RS=)


> dapreview.net

[Bordello]

Don't be surprised if they continue to charge an outrageous amount for it. How does $1000 sound?

[d-man]

Don't be surprised if they continue to charge an outrageous amount for it. How does $1000 sound?Sounds about right :cheesygri

[ben_liu]

screw ipod buy a portable dvd player and a bunch of dvds and cds lol..

[Bordello]

I might buy this thing if they throw in some decent PDA functionality and keep the price tag under $500. I hope they do something about the mediocre battery life that the current iPod videos have.

[bfurtado]

Surprinsingly, Apple has actually driven prices lower as of late so I think this may come in at roughly the same as the 30GB or 60GB price points. The shuffle, despite the screen, was cheap for a 1GB and Sony, Creative, etc had to follow suit. Even the new Zen Vision Micro (or whatever it is), is slightly more than its comparable iPod. 1GB Nano at $149 is pretty cheap too given its capacity and form factor. I think its because Apple's been able to negotiate such cheap memory/hard drive prices given its volume - something the other guys can't right now.

[spike-spiegel]

fingerprints.

sounds good theory, we'll see how it is in reality. i really like 3.5" widescreen though.

[The_Duke_Of_Eli]

Don't be surprised if they continue to charge an outrageous amount for it. How does $1000 sound?

Every ipod they've released in the past 4 years has started at 379$ for 20gb and now 30gb. They just keep getting better for your money as parts get cheaper.

[P__S__2]

damn, that would be crazy.

[MrWizard]

Some established a long time ago (through a video) that this was fake. He showed people how he made it.

[Ojam]

Some established a long time ago (through a video) that this was fake. He showed people how he made it.

The pics in this thread are fake, but the video wasn't in relation to these "mock-ups".

[tdwtd]

Might be fake, but Apple might actually make it in the future.

http://volpin.livejournal.com/33033.html

[Ojam]

Might be fake, but Apple might actually make it in the future.

http://volpin.livejournal.com/33033.html

No doubt, they will probably save it for the next Mac world though, there has generally been a year between generations it seems, I'd bet the next announcement will have an update to the shuffle though, since it’s been out for a year.