Taiwan-based Wintek will be the panel supplier of Apple's new iPod video, according to sources at upstream suppliers. Apple is set to launch a next-generation iPod video in August with the new products featuring a touch screen panel similar to the iPhone, the sources noted.


http://www.digitimes.com/displays/a20070710PD217.html

note there aren't that many maker making capacitive touch screen.
also: obviously an iPod with touch screen wouldn't just for "flipping songs" since a cheapo button will do just fine. So hopefully there is some interesting feature in iPod that will be beneficial to mp3 blogging. (aka, holding super large database + extra text information, new UI to control it all)

And Apple's third?  Or do they not count the ROKR since they basically killed it, leaving Motorola to swing in the breeze?

Rokr was about apple stealing/dicking moto for propiretary code (wireless driver). Apple can't make their own phone without those drivers.

old news. Microsoft did that to to smaller company and transfer the code to HTC. Dog eats dog world.

motorola is going the way of nokia/erickson.  has been. Their low end hardware is too expensive compared to cheapie taiwanese/chinese brand, but they can't compete in high end phone, cause they don't know how to write Operating system. They probably get snuffed soon enough in consumer phone market and will mostly do wireless networking gear and military stuff.

moto already say they won't make profit in '07.

In the meantime the biggest market in the planet is moving to create their own standard away from moto/qualcom/broadcom stuff. (greater china, Korea, jpn) So, unless we have sudden 6+% GDP growth and everybody and their dog is buying moto's phone, moto is effed big time. Cause their phone is kinda not edgy anymore.

I love my Zen.  16 GB doesn't quite do it for me, but it's a step in the right direction.  I've had the M Vision for about a year and four months.  By the time I'm ready for a new player I'm hoping flash players are up to about 60 GB.  No reason not to believe as far as I can tell.

iPod touch:



obvious next step... for the lonely people with no one to call?

oh wi-fi --- nice. plus browser.

What about the 160GB model?  That thing is priced to sell!

i don't know paul. i bought mine for the phone/email, the ipod was an added bonus. i don't think people are buying the iphone for the ipod feature? good thing they did it now rather than later to give people more choice --- i thought they'd wait at least another three months before announcing this.

160 gb ipod --- omigoodness. that's why i have a laptop.

itune wifi music store!! now that's what i'm talking about. if only a decent bitrate but not bad if you need something on the fly.

Posted by: travisitune wifi music store!! now that's what i'm talking about. if only a decent bitrate but not bad if you need something on the fly.

 

not gonna fly. That's like giving free cellphone but you can only call your mom.  WiFi is for Voip and google app.

"not gonna fly. That's like giving free cellphone but you can only call your mom. WiFi is for Voip and google app." give it a week and you'll have your voip --- apple will never do it for you. or you can go to your sketchy as fuck chinese rip off and use that.

Hey, don't dis those cheapo chinese PMP player. (afterall, they assemble those iphone (foxxcon))

Those cheapo chinese PMP are the future, they have increasingly more powerfull processor than even iPhone. that means somebody then will soon hack it and install linux... then it's all over.

"So we're going to do something about that today. We're on track to ship our 1mth iPhone this month -- to get ready for the holidays here's what we're going to do. It's clear clear customers want the 8GB model -- it's not going to sell for 599 anymore. "Starting today effective immediately, we're pricing it at just $399."

paul, that's gonna make a bunch of iphone owners mad. $200 price break??? jesus.

anybody notice Apple is now knee deep in PDA market? hah, I predicted this one 5 years ago after their second generation iPod. iTouch is a little crippled tho. They should have added GPS

Somewhere in microsoft campus, a management team is in panic mode.  Cause Google and Apple are about to eat microsoft alive.

annnnd the new nano is puketastic. though the commercial with feist is better than the dancing shadows.

I think I'll be getting a 160GB iPod classic within the next two weeks.  I've been looking to get one finally, and with that much space at that price, I don't think it can be beat.  I'd love to have the iPod Touch just to have a tiny internet browser that we can put on the coffee table.  Emily wants one bad, so she might pick one up very soon, I think I'll wait till either they get bigger or maybe after christmas.  I think they just pissed off a bunch of iPhone users in lots of different ways.  To be able to surf the internet for small shit like TV times or to look up something on wikipedia from something so small is a HUGE draw for me.  Toss in ITMS on the fly and 16GB of storage, and it's a really tough thing to pass up.  If I didn't need way more storage, like Paul, I'd be all over it.  But the draw of being able to carry around all of my music and then some in my pocket is a BIG motivator.

What would be really cool is if you could strip the iPod OS off of the 160 GB model and run some PlaysForSure on it, sign up for Rhapsody and Have a new 40,000 songs every month.   Not bad.  Think we could get these guys on it?

Stevie hates the blog. haa haa...  (what did I tell ya. Everybody in the end wants control.) I love this. I can't wait until the major label figure out what Steve plans is and they are not invited.

(I am still surprise how any apple fans can't see/refuse to see this yet. You don't own your device. Steve lets you use your device to do certain thing. that's it. )

http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/09/apples-ipod-tou.html

Apple confirmed with Listening Post that the iPod Touch will not allow users to download MP3s from web pages over its WiFi connection, so devotees of MP3 blogs will need to stick to the old plan: download to computer, import into iTunes, and sync to iPod.

However, streaming radio is still a strong possibility for the iPod Touch, and could become a bigger part of the iPhone too.  When asked whether the iPod Touch would handle streaming radio from either Apple or third party sites such as Pandora and Seeqpod, my Apple contact told me there are "no announced plans."

Apple to Reduce iPod Production

The subprime mortgage crisis is taking its toll on http://www.pmptoday.com/industry-news/apple-quarterly-finacial-report-a-bazillion-iphones-a-quadzillion-ipods-sold/">the ever-popular iPod. Apple is anticipating slower sales this year and has asked its suppliers to slow down iPod production. The information comes from the Banc of America. Production cuts are expected to be between 10% and 20% compared to early January and 30% compared to December. “Current production expectations for March imply a 5–10% year-over-year unit decline, versus our expectation for 5% year-over-year unit sales growth during the March quarter, likely implying a continuing inventory rightsizing and sales sluggishness,” says analyst Scott Craig.

http://www.pmptoday.com/2008/02/02/apple-to-reduce-ipod-production/#more-4503


(yeah right, blame is all on subprime. The damned thing is overpriced!)

Err... surely in another way that graphs just shows a lot of people have just bought ipods, so obviously don't intend on buying another for a while. Apple probably aren't worried.