The next generation iPods

[bleeb]

I'm thinking about,... yes biting the bullet... and buying an iPod 30 Gig Video so that I can record lectures and listen to music....

I won't have the need for one until next year so I'm wondering if anyone knows about what the next generation iPods will offer.

 

[MrChad]

It will make phone calls.

 

[Bootprint]

Hopefully one that will work while wearing winter gloves.

 

[tasmanian]

Originally posted by: bleeb
I'm thinking about,... yes biting the bullet... and buying an iPod 30 Gig Video so that I can record lectures and listen to music....

I won't have the need for one until next year so I'm wondering if anyone knows about what the next generation iPods will offer.

Since when do ipod videos have microphones?

 

[Flammable]

Originally posted by: bleeb
I'm thinking about,... yes biting the bullet... and buying an iPod 30 Gig Video so that I can record lectures and listen to music....

I won't have the need for one until next year so I'm wondering if anyone knows about what the next generation iPods will offer.

Ipods cant Record...

 

[BRObedoza]

probably touch screen interface

 

[Mo0o]

you can get an attachemnt that lets you record. a lot of schools bundle it with their ipods as a kind of deal

 

[GhettoFob]

proncasts

 

[Printer Bandit]

they will have more GB.

 

[imported_Mike]

Originally posted by: sleepmachine
probably touch screen interface

Yep, I would expect something along the lines of the iPhone without the phone capabilities.

 

[Kaervak]

I've heard rumors of them moving to high capacity flash based disks.

 

[Bootprint]

Originally posted by: Mo0o
you can get an attachemnt that lets you record. a lot of schools bundle it with their ipods as a kind of deal

It's funny that if you go into the diagnositics page of a nano, you see the option about playback and recording. Mind you without a microphone hookup, all you can record is silence.

 

[b0mbrman]

Originally posted by: sleepmachine
probably touch screen interface

Yup...like the Iphone, minus the phone and the address book stuff. It will have a version of Itunes that will visually be a port of the computer program

 

[darkswordsman17]

Originally posted by: Printer Bandit
they will have more GB.

I actually wouldn't be surprised if they move to all flash instead of HDDs with the onset of 32/64GB SSD drives. I guess I really wouldn't be surprised if they went either way, where they offered a larger HDD drive and focused on video. Or maybe they're working on a deal for a hybrid drive. The latter would be the best I think as you'd have the large capacities for not that much cost but get a benefit of the larger cache capability. Maybe some sort of their own hybrid where they pair the HDDs and the flash chips (they've bought a ton of flash chips).

Well I pretty much covered just about everything they might do for storage.

 

[Rubycon]

Merge with the Blackberry and become the Bipod. :laugh:

 

[ElFenix]

i'll take large touch screen for 500, alex

 

[ChaoZ]

They're gonna put some wireless sharing features, and everyone will praise it's originality.

 

[Reckoner]

Virtual Happy Ending

 

[b0mbrman]

Originally posted by: ChaoZ
They're gonna put some wireless sharing features, and everyone will praise it's originality.

Not just that. It'll be smooth and shiny and trendy...a few months later, it'll come out in black and pink

 

[secretanchitman]

probably widescreen (the whole front is touchscreen)...possibly bluetooth/wi-fi and maybe a camera.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

Simpy put, large touchscreen, larger flash based hard drive, and bluetooth/wifi syncing capabilites.