Apple iPod 6th Generation Interface - Fake Or Real?
Apple will most likely release the next revision of the Video iPod around August 7th. Sources indicate that these video iPods will be almost one inch shorter and about a quarter of an inch wider viewing appearance than current models. The space between the screen and the click wheel is removed to make room to the slightly larger screen, but the design overhaul doesn’t stop here. The region between the click wheel and the bottom of the iPod is removed too.
Some sources have also indicated that the Black Matte version of the Video iPod will also be “less shiny and more MacBooky”. Personally I think this sounds a bit like the Creative Zen Vision:M I recently purchased, but I’m sure iPod fans doesn’t agree with me on this.
The design revision of the iPod isn’t the most interesting buzz about Apple products this week. A video showing the new interface on the 6th generation iPod has surfaced. It was revealed on MacRumors Forum, but Apple quickly released the hounds err…lawyers and it was quickly taken down. The video can still be found on YouTube though, but due to inaccuracies in one of the Beatles albums shown in the video, most think it’s a fake.
Question is though, why did Apple react? Is it showing a grain of truth after all? iPod fans are already speculating if the click wheel will be removed and replaced by a touch screen known from the iPhone. Others think it will have WiFi, camera or Bluetooth, while some think the click wheel will prevail since Apple doesn’t want to compete with the iPhone. I’m pretty sure we’ll see the touch screen, probably not in the 6th generation, but then surely in the 7th generation iPod.
What would you like to see in the next generation of iPod? Do you think the video is real or fake? Is the touch screen reserved for the iPhone only or should it be on iPods as well?
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Comment by Bush Mackel on 24 July 2007:
You know - I still don’t have an iPod. Does that make me a digital freak?
Comment by Nirmal on 24 July 2007:
Good news for iPod fans. I not one though.
Bush,
You have company in me, I too don’t have an iPod.
Comment by ForumeR on 24 July 2007:
Bush Mackel : Me too don;t have an iPod yet!!! hehe it don;t make us digital freak!! But it made us save our money!!
Comment by Dennis Bjørn Petersen on 24 July 2007:
The Apple lawyers are moving fast. The video has been removed from YouTube.
I bought a Creative Zen Vision:M instead of an iPod. I still keep my 2G for the memories though. In those days you got all kinds of extra stuff, when you bought a MP3 player.
Comment by 3gp on 24 July 2007:
i am planning to purchase iPod myself now i think i should wait for the next release.
Comment by Angie on 24 July 2007:
I keep waiting. They keep improving. How long does one reasonably wait? Sheesh
Comment by Shashank on 24 July 2007:
i also don’t have iPod ..nowadays mobiles double up as iPod and phone ..so really isn’t that much need for an iPod
Comment by Dennis Bjørn Petersen on 24 July 2007:
If you are in doubt about buying an iPod or something different, then consider taking a look at this:
http://www.thebetanews.com/a-huge-dilemma-which-mp3-player-should-i-buy-ipod-or-zen-vision-m/
Comment by Bush Mackel on 25 July 2007:
Wow. Good to know I’m in such good company! Personally, if I used a mp3 player, it would predominantly for workouts and such and i would never have an occasion to have 60GBs of music on a portable device. But hey, that’s me. If I didn’t have my computers hooked up to my home audio, it would probably be a different story.
Comment by ahuja mehek on 10 October 2007:
i have heard that apple has launched a new ipod of 280 GB. Is it so? or is it a fake ipod?