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Sep 04, 08 - 10:08 am Comment from: jarrettdailynews

Good looking device.

iPods are getting boring. i sure hope steve has something more interesting to show than this.

Sep 04, 08 - 10:10 am Comment from: Brian Allen

We saw this pictures weeks ago.

Sep 04, 08 - 10:15 am Comment from: Jamie

Yeh I agree, there is only so much you can do with an iPod...

...although I must admit the iPod touch is lurverly!

Sep 04, 08 - 10:18 am Comment from: MacintoshSoftwareList.com

It is getting hard for Apple to keep a secrete. There are just to many people involved these days.

"It is getting hard for Apple to keep a secrete."

True. Leaks can get messy.

Sep 04, 08 - 10:22 am Comment from: NeverFade

that ipod looks so long to me. Perhaps it's just the picture.

FAKE.

Peely plastic is a givaway... plus it looks like an aircon remote control.

Photoshop!

Sep 04, 08 - 10:25 am Comment from: jarrettdailynews

sorry john, I am going to disagree here. I call good on this one. Especially since there is a doc connector. Some of the other photos showed different. Plus it is pretty detailed at the base, most mock-ups aren't.

I don't see apple turn the screen for video like that. I think it's a nice looking fake.

Sep 04, 08 - 10:39 am Comment from: Randian

@/ln

"iPods are getting boring"

Uh, so, uh, smart guy . . . what would you have them do? Mow your lawn? Pleasure your wife? Write your next resumé?

Quick Story: Every time a friend's father heard one of his kids say that he was "bored" or that something was "boring," he'd smack him upside the head with a quick "Here. This'll give you something brand new to think about." Seems relevant here.

I agree Jamie,

the iPod touch is still interesting. It would have to have audio and 64Gb to take my money though.

If the Ipod nano was all touch screen with wifi but sans blue tooth, but with motion sensors and full browser I'd see it as an advance. If it's this picture though, I'd see it as a regression... unless there is something we're not seeing... a drastic price reduction maybe?

Perhaps the 64Gb touch with audio is coming, along with something to bridge the iPodTouch-MacBook gap..... based on the new processor technology apple acquired recently..... now that would keep my interest until new Mac hardware is released along with Snow Leopard....

now i'm all excited... darn it...

Sep 04, 08 - 10:49 am Comment from: madgunde

I also call fake. It's bigger than the current Nano, and Apple wouldn't make you turn your screen sideways without having some way to turn the control buttons at the same time.

I see the Nano replacement getting rid of the scroll wheel altogether and putting the controls on screen with multi-touch. It won't necessarily be a fully iPhone/iPod touch compatible OS, more like the existing nano but with a bigger screen that takes up the entire face and adds the iPod navigation of the iPod touch.

Sep 04, 08 - 10:49 am Comment from: Jamie

Hey Randian, I think you've had one smack on the head too many!

Other people can have an opinion you know. Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one, and they usually stink.

If Gens 1 & 2 sort of look like this with a different screen and Gen 3 is the Fat nano, why would Apple devolve back to the shape of the earlier generations? I see a lot of Fat nanos out there so seems a bit odd to me..

Overused quote is overused.

@Randian

your answers yes, no and yes.

seriously, haven't you ever been bored of something and wanted or wished it would change?

the only reason i ask is, well being is bored is natural. that's why kids get bored. they crave for stimulation. just like your wife.

What if the click wheel was a display of some sort that would shift the button layout along with the main display. I'm sure they've got the tech to do it fairly cheaply, and it sounds like a typically elegant Apple solution to me.

Angelus520: If Gens 1 & 2 sort of look like this with a different screen and Gen 3 is the Fat nano, why would Apple devolve back to the shape of the earlier generations? I see a lot of Fat nanos out there so seems a bit odd to me..

This elongated form factor could offer a bigger screen with less "dead" space around the scroll wheel; In effect, being smaller than the "fat nano" overall but offering more screen real estate at the same time. Quite a convincing idea, I would say.

At the same time much better suited for vertically scrolling lists than the landscape display in the "fat nano".

No Doubt!

Sep 04, 08 - 11:08 am Comment from: HMCIV

Looks a little Zuneish to me!

Sep 04, 08 - 11:09 am Comment from: Toasty

I agree. Its fake. Why would Apple shrink the screen size back?

Fake for this reason. Last year, the photos leaked and apple took them down right away. This year, the photos leak, but they are still up on the internet. This are not the real ipods.

I side with the fakes...

Sep 04, 08 - 11:32 am Comment from: alansky

@ln: Why don't you go play with a roll of toilet paper? Something simple, that someone like you can understand!

Sep 04, 08 - 11:33 am Comment from: Yours Smugly

Fake? Rather, pretty much confirmed by now. "Peely plastic" makes it fake? Hello, it's a screen protecting shield. Shrunken screen? Hello, it's the same screen as on the 3rd gen nano turned 90 degrees.

The consensus seems to be that people liked the elongated nanos more than the phatty. That's probably the #1 reason Apple is going back to the candybar format.

Sep 04, 08 - 11:40 am Comment from: FatMac

"Photo of unreleased 4th generation iPod nano leaked? (with photo)"

I'm not clear on this. Is there a photo or not?

Let's see, the bezel on the left edge is thinner than the bezel on the right edge, and the click wheel isn't seated flush with the case. FAKE.

Sep 04, 08 - 12:06 pm Comment from: G4Dualie

I could whip one of those up in ZBrush in twenty minutes.

That would be great! I think it looks spectacular and a ton better than the current one.

Toasty: I agree. Its fake. Why would Apple shrink the screen size back?

They won't. The screen is at least as large as on the 3rd gen.

Growl: Let's see, the bezel on the left edge is thinner than the bezel on the right edge, and the click wheel isn't seated flush with the case. FAKE.

As you can easily see on the bottom of the device, the casing is oval, which means the aspect angle is different for the two edges. That the far edge of the screen appears thinner is correct for an oval shape. Likewise for a slightly recessed scroll wheel in the middle (while flush at the edges).

I just assumed the pic was photoshopped. If I wanted to show an iPod with my thin plastic screen protector peeling away, it would be much easier to pshop it than to somehow get it to hang in midair. That doesn't mean the form-factor is wrong.

As far as the click wheel not being flush, if they went with a new technology to create a morphing click wheel (like in my earlier post), it might be necessary for it to be slightly recessed, hence the shadows. Maybe it's a small version of the same tech used in the Kindle display...no backlight needed.

I thought the slightly altered clickwheel could be a sign that the wheel turns when you flip it to landscape mode. This way the controls match up to your orientation when watching movies.

guaranteed fake.