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2.9.06 ; True video iPod to sport 3.5-inch display
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post Feb 11 2006, 04:16 PM
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Think Secret can confirm recent rumblings that Apple is nearing completion of a completely revamped video iPod that will shed the ubiquitous mechanical click wheel for a touch screen and will sport a 3.5-inch diagonal display.
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This video iPod, which has been in development and on the table since before Apple released the 5G iPod last year with video playback, will feature a display that will occupy the entire front face of the device. Sources who have seen the device report that it features a digital click wheel, one that overlays the touch-sensitive display and appears when a finger touches it and disappears when the finger is removed.

Apple has been working with at least two other companies to perfect the digital click wheel display technology. While not all the engineering was completed in-house by Apple, sources have said Apple could hold an exclusive license on the technologies it borrowed from other developers for a period of time, limiting the ability of competitors to copy Apple's design.

Additional details concerning the new iPod have yet to be confirmed, including capacity and a release date, although all indications point to the Spring, possibly as early as late March or early April. During the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs alluded to a major announcement on or around April 1, Apple's 30th anniversary as a company.

Like previous iPods, sources insist that this video iPod will lack any sort of wireless connectivity, and will continue to connect to televisions using the conventional cabling solution of current models.

While Apple no longer publicly releases the numbers for how many specific iPod models it sells, Think Secret has learned exclusively that during Apple's most recent December quarter, the company moved 3.9 million 5G iPods, exceeding internal estimates and confirming that strong demand remains for higher capacity, higher priced iPod models, especially with additional functionality. By comparison, 8 million iPod nanos were sold during the same period.

Readers will recall that during the brouhaha leading up to the October release of the 5G iPod last year, Think Secret maintained that the video iPod would not be released at the time and, following the roll-out of the 5G iPod, that that iPod was "not the video iPod" but rather a souped up 4G iPod with video capabilities. This forthcoming iPod revision is what sources have said for some time will be the incarnation of a complete video iPod solution.



http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0602videoipod.html
 
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post Feb 11 2006, 04:39 PM
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Ew iPod! lol.

Still, nothing will be able to pwn once the Toshiba Gigabeat S comes out.
 
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post Feb 11 2006, 11:22 PM
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I'm not a fan of touch screens...my ipod screen is not in the best shape as it is, I can't see poking it all the time helping...
 
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post Feb 11 2006, 11:27 PM
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"Hey, check out my new PMP!"
"u mean da new video ipod LOL"
"No man, my pmp, these have been out for a while."
"no way LOLZORSFORMAISNFBFFGG da ipod was first and the bestZORSlOL! Lolzors!111"
 
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post Feb 11 2006, 11:30 PM
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another one???? when does it enddd?
 
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post Feb 11 2006, 11:33 PM
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QUOTE(xcaitlinx @ Feb 11 2006, 11:30 PM)
another one???? when does it enddd?
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post Feb 11 2006, 11:52 PM
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QUOTE(artislife90 @ Feb 11 2006, 11:33 PM)
Never, new ipod = new money.
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or new ipod = more money

cause all the old ipod heads gonna get one of these
 
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post Feb 11 2006, 11:57 PM
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iPod = Not too good sound quality in my opinion.

If iPods had SRS WOW, or BBE Sound enhancers, I might look into it.
 
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post Feb 12 2006, 06:48 PM
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if ipods had napster, i'd look into them.

well, that and if htey didn't have that stupid touch wheel. i don't like touch things... i can never move just one space.

but i can say something about this touch screen that will scare the bejeebers out of everyone:

fingerprints.

i think iriver needs to upgrade thier U10 in size to a 1.8 harddrive system, 30-60 gigs.

that would rock.
 
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post Feb 12 2006, 10:45 PM
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QUOTE(sadolakced acid @ Feb 12 2006, 6:48 PM)
if ipods had napster, i'd look into them.

well, that and if htey didn't have that stupid touch wheel.  i don't like touch things...  i can never move just one space.

but i can say something about this touch screen that will scare the bejeebers out of everyone:

fingerprints.

i think iriver needs to upgrade thier U10 in size to a 1.8 harddrive system, 30-60 gigs.

that would rock.
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post Feb 13 2006, 10:59 AM
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QUOTE(sadolakced acid @ Feb 12 2006, 6:48 PM)
i think iriver needs to upgrade thier U10 in size to a 1.8 harddrive system, 30-60 gigs.

that would rock.
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If they did that, I wouldn't bother waiting for the Gigabeat S to come out. I'd just get the U10.
 
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post Feb 14 2006, 07:38 PM
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post Feb 17 2006, 12:11 AM
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I REALLY doubt that iPod is real. If it is, it's one ugly looking iPod.
 
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I REALLY doubt that iPod is real. If it is, it's one ugly looking iPod.

They're artists' renderings.
 
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post Feb 17 2006, 11:10 AM
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then the new ipod will be epensive!
 
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post Feb 17 2006, 11:57 AM
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I would buy the iPod once it gets sound recording, AM/FM Radio, buttons, and sound enhancers.
 
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post Feb 18 2006, 08:56 PM
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^ and loses that damn touchwheel thing.

things i hate:

wheels.

touch things.
 
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post Feb 18 2006, 08:59 PM
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^ So I take it you don't like the H10's scroll pad, lol.
 
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post Feb 21 2006, 11:07 PM
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I love how the non-iPod mp3 market has been stagnant for the past two years, (iPod imitation designs and capacities and iTunes imitation online subscription services, which are universally awful) and how now liking the other mp3 players gives you some kind of indie cred, where techies were fawning over iPods up until they got exceedingly popular mid-2004.
 
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post Feb 21 2006, 11:08 PM
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^ But wouldn't you want something with better sound quality and more features? That's one reason why I don't like the iPod, it makes sense. Yeah the iPod should get a lot of credit, although there are millions of better players out there.
 
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post Feb 21 2006, 11:09 PM
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QUOTE(sadolakced acid @ Feb 18 2006, 8:56 PM) *
^ and loses that damn touchwheel thing.

things i hate:

wheels.

touch things.

LOL. That made me laugh laugh.gif

Goshdarnit, I just got one of those Ipod with video for Christmas and they have a new one already? Ridiculous! Lol.
 
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LOL. That made me laugh laugh.gif

Goshdarnit, I just got one of those Ipod with video for Christmas and they have a new one already? Ridiculous! Lol.

Well, it's not out yet.
 
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post Feb 22 2006, 11:23 PM
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Fingerprints....

::shudders::
 
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post Feb 22 2006, 11:46 PM
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Fingerprints....

::shudders::

Yeah, can you imagine using the click wheel to watch a movie, and then you have to look through a circular streak for the whole thing, because if you try and clean it youll just activate the click wheel again?!

Im getting frustrated already.

I'll stick with the good ol Zen Vision.
 
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QUOTE(ThunderEvermore @ Feb 22 2006, 11:46 PM) *
I'll stick with the good ol Zen Vision.


Speak of the Zen Vision, I'm not sure if I should wait for the Toshiba Gigabeat S to come out, or just get the Zen Vision: M right now. Decisions.
 
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