“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,” Susie Pan and Emily Chuang report for DIGITIMES.
“The Taiwan-based panel maker will begin shipping capacitive touch screen panels in the second half of 2007, according to sources,” Pan and Chuang report.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Linux Guy And Mac Prodigal Son” for the heads up.]
I don’t see how exactly this is going to work. A touch screen video ipod, possibly with Wifi, is too similiar to the iPhone. Apple does not release products so similiar that they compete directly with one another.
I think the bigger question is how the new iPod will distinguish itself from the iPhone.
Phillip: If you live in the US, yes you do have to pay, and whether you use GPS or not. The GPS system is paid for by your tax dollars.
No *IT ISN’T*
The iPhone is a totally different product for a different market. If you think that Apple’s not coming out with a new stand alone iPod you are high. For the foreseeable future the iPhone and iPod will be two different devices–and rightfully so
cant wait.. the first ipod that runs osx.
wireless?
call it an iphone -cellular +hard drive
maybe not.. it will be interesting to see how apple plays this one.. maybe keep it simple A/V only?? we’ll see
MDN magic word: ‘hot’ thats what paris said when she got her diamond encrusted iphone
Is it just me or is everything supposed to come out in August? Frankly, I would rather see some COMPUTERS (whether that be Macbooks or iMacs, or heck, even a Mini) from Apple than more iPods.
Mr. Peabody says: “Ok then, the next-gen iPod will have all of the features of the iPhone except cellular, including Wi-Fi, and it will come with a slightly wider screen, and come in 30, 50 and 80GB models. And if black and white are our only two choices then I hope Apple goes with black.”
Mr. Peabody, I’m with you. I’m sure Apple folks read MDN everyday, so Apple, Mr. Peabody and I, along with millions of friends, want the phone-less iPhone with greater storage capacity. It would be a tremendous seller.
the iPod line is in its final year(s). With so much overlap in form and function, they will be cannibalising each other’s sales until iPod is finally (and rightfully) killed of. I could perhaps see some screenless models remaining on the market, as they would pose no real threat to the iPhone (sub- $80 shuffle); but nano and full-size iPods will be rendered superfluous by the phone.
With the whole planed already carrying cellphones in their pockets, it would make absolutely no sense to cater to some marginal market that absolutely wants another (somewhat large) device, just for music and video.
Chipset prices are coming down. Just like the iPod (which started at $500 for 5GB of space!), iPhone will come down. The market is totally comfortable with paying $200 for 4GB. Add another $50 to $100 for phone functionality and you have a cheap iPhone without the need for the iPod. In a year or two (max) iPod with screen will be history.
@ Predrag
People need an iPod with a real hard drive. The whole appeal of the iPod is having all of your music into a compact portable device. For many people, the iPhone is not a viable choice because their music collections will never come close to 8 gigabytes.
Why don’t people LISTEN?
Steve has said more than once that Apple has 4 legs to its business:
1) Mac
2) iPod+iTunes
3) iPhone
4) AppleTV (eventually)
iPhone and iPod are different markets. Steve used the example of someone who buys a smartphone, then nano. The iPhone is that in one device.
It IS the best iPod they have ever made, and you can almost be certain that they will use most if not all of that tech in the next iPod. Steve also said Apple isnt worried about cannibalisation if people are choosing another Apple product (ie. i wont buy a nano because i want an iPhone).
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Why am I only one who sees this? There is absolutely nothing that iPod has, that iPhone won’t have. They’re not killing the iPod next week. However, it WILL die in a year or two. For Traveller concerns, iPhone is the first version. Next ones will undoubdtedly have 30, 60 or 80GB. For those with Trios or BlueBerries, there is always the Shuffle, if they desperately need and iPod next to their MP3-enabled smartphone. The idea is to get them to switch to the iPhone anyway.
MP3 player as a consumer electronic device is becoming a commodity, much like a portable CD player ($20 device). Very soon, Apple’s profit margins of 30% won’t be sustainable on the iPod line. It will be (deservedly) retired and folded into the iPhone, perhaps with the exceptioin of a screenless version of Shuffle.
Apple is NOT getting rid of the iPod anytime soon, and if you believe that than you are on something. The iPod made Apple Inc what it is today, the worlds leader in portable music players. Where would Apple be without the iPod? The iPhone is stuck on AT&T for the next five years. So you think Apple with scrap the iPod and go after just the 50 to 60 million AT&T subscribers? Instead of the 6 billion people they can sell an iPod to? You are on something! I just hope they release a huge iPod! 100 to 200GB version. I’m getting sick of taking crap off of my iPod to fit new stuff on there.