Get ready for 8 gig Nanos

Not too fussed on video capability -- I mean, come ON. like the 5G isn't small enough? -- however, I've always wanted a larger capacity flash player than my Shuffle. If they could bring out an 8GB at the 4GB's current price, I'm on board.

Do you remember when they had the deal for students where you bought a mac, you'd get a free ipod mini? Do you remember how this happened like 2 months BEFORE the nano's debuted?

Guess what they're doing for the nano right now?

Hey, Apple! Can we have them launched at a European keynote in Paris sometime around September 12th? Thanks!

Some of you may have noticed that although 4,8 GB etc sizes are availible at a reasonable price 30GB flash modules are extremely expensive. Look at the laptops which have 32GB flash modules (which are probably much bigger than MP3 player modules and therefore cheaper), the prices soar into the thousands. If there was a 30GB flash version, iPod would once again be a high end product putting it out of many people's budget. At least 2 years off ...

@SlammaJamma: That makes a lot of sense. One of the big issues with the 6G iPod was that a bigger screen would absolutely destroy the current battery. If they used 32gb of flash instead of the hard drive, they could cut power consumption, boost battery size/life, and support the larger screen for the requisite 2hr+ movie watching benchmark.

I'd be more inclined to think there would be 32GB Flash video iPods. Not nanos with 16 or 32 GB that play video... but the current iPod using flash memory in place of the hard drive. Then perhaps they can place a much larger battery in it since i'd imagine the flash chips would be far smaller than the hard drives. This would be huge since flash probably uses less battery than the HDD anyway, and the battery would be bigger. The 60 as it stands would probably retain the hard drive... or perhaps be the low end of the "true video" ipod we hear so much about.

6 months? That seems some time away for a current news story. I know the manufacturing process takes some time, but if we are talking about using larger capacity NANDs replacing smaller capacity NANDs, 6 months seems quite a ways out.

If it's going to be in the next month or two, then that could spur a lot of sales.

This is good; there's been a huge capacity gap in the iPod line for sometime. A lot of people have 10-20G of media, but not 30G; there was room for them in the 3G and earlier 4G models, but ever since then, the middle road has been cut out.

In related news, it's nice that Samsung is so loose-lipped with their NAND production capabilities; it's like looking into the Apple crystal ball without having to talk to one person in Cupertino!

I thought we weren't suposed to post obvious mac rumors a la the whole iSight/Cinema Display thing?

@BobMac, you can buy a 30 or 60 gig video iPod right now. Personally I dont see the appeal of a video nano, which is what I think you are implying.

Also, dont the larger capacity nanos use two 2gb chips? Therefore wouldnt an 8gb chip production mean 16gb nanos? and also 16gb chip mean 32gb nanos?