Filed under: iPod Family, Rumors, Cult of Mac, iTunes
New iPods on the way?
AppleInsider reported yesterday that Apple is planning a high-profile product launch on July 7th. Invitiations have been distributed to media outlets (hey, Steve: where's mine?), but there are no public details yet. We know that iTunes 4.9 is scheduled for launch soon, but AppleInsider speculates we might see some new hardware as well. They're leaning toward a 2nd gen Shuffle and a new iPod Photo. TUAW reader Eric notes, however, that shipping on the 20G iPods has been delayed, as well as shipping for the 30G and 60G iPod Photos, but you can still have your Shuffle tomorrow. Of course this is all circumstantial, but it's certainly food for thought.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Brian said 1:32PM on 6-25-2005
We all have had our opinions on the lawsuits that Apple has filed, but my gosh they have worked well. Hardware leaks are very rare now.
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kansir said 1:32PM on 6-25-2005
Interesting !
Let's see what will Steve announce.
I hope iPod photo can really directly connect to DC for downloading photos.
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Logan said 1:40PM on 6-25-2005
What, no thank you, Jay? :p
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Guille said 2:04PM on 6-25-2005
I'm hoping for a Mac mini update :)
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Bram said 2:26PM on 6-25-2005
My bets are on the Ipod Phone with Cingular. Here's why I think this...
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=8890682&src=rss/technologyNews
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Josh said 3:11PM on 6-25-2005
Damn. I just bought a 60GB iPod photo.
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Jay Savage said 4:01PM on 6-25-2005
Bram,
You may well be right, but unless the phone is going to be Apple branded--which is unlikely--I think there's going to be more to whatever's happening on the 7th.
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Jay Savage said 4:03PM on 6-25-2005
logan,
Thanks for the tip, but the post was already queued when I got your email. They don't always show up here right away.
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Eric said 5:48PM on 6-25-2005
Hehe, I got mentioned in an article!
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Edward Cruz said 5:55PM on 6-25-2005
I am dying to upgrade my iPod Mini, an iPod Photo would be great, but I don't like it in white.
I hope this is true. Too bad I'll be out of the country with no internet for 2 weeks.
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Callum said 6:41PM on 6-25-2005
What about "Asteroid" that break-out box idea... If that were mixed in with iTunes (to aid creation of Podcasts) it would be pretty nice, I say that but just the other day Apple we're in my inbox bigging up some 3rd party product that did just this.
So - maybe something new? I'm bored with the iPod now, it does what it does leave it at that back to the Computers, Apple!
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John Connuck said 9:46PM on 6-25-2005
I just noticed that tek serve is having a clearence sale on 1GB Shuffle's and iPod Photo's. I think its time for a video ipod, and maybe a bigger shuffle? And, well... i dunno, a screen??
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Andrew Kaufmann said 9:58PM on 6-25-2005
Maybe Apple will just catch up with everyone else and give us an FM tuner and recording built in? :)
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Sam said 10:31PM on 6-25-2005
Oh, please do not make my recent ipod photo purchase irrelevant already. *tear*
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iFelix said 9:40AM on 6-26-2005
Will the new iPods have Tetris on them?
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Ryan Green said 5:43PM on 6-28-2005
Its possible for Video iPoddage, since we know that it's capable of video, and considering that all iPods are now color...
but I think that iTunes software for Motorola phones (note the phrasing of words there, but I really really hope I'm wrong and Apple will put out a GSM phone).
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