“We think there’s still a huge market for the iPod touch, such as people who don’t want to pay a minimum $70 per month for phone and data service, people who use non-AT&T wireless carriers, and people who like keeping their mobile phone and MP3 player separate,” Vasanth Sridharan writes for Silicon Alley Insider.
“So we don’t expect Apple to leave the iPod touch alone. But if it’s going to become the first ‘mainstream wi-fi mobile platform,’ as the company has been calling it, it needs some improvements,” Sridharan writes.
Specifically, we’d like to see:
• More storage for the same price
• A camera
• Mic and speakers
• Version(s) with 5- and/or 7-inch screen(s)
Sridharan writes, “We think some of these changes could come as early as this fall. We don’t expect Apple to do much to the iPod touch during the back-to-school shopping season — during which they’re giving away iPod touches to Mac buyers. But sometime around mid-October…”
More in the full article here.
I am waiting till September, to see if Apple release a new iPod touch. All I really want is an external speaker, so when I play games, I can hear the game play, without having to use the head phones.
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I just ordered two ipods from Apple Australia. I bypassed the new models especially the iPod Touch because of it’s lack of capacity. Cover Flow was another barrier to easy browsing. The result was a refurbished 5.5 generation iPod video/80 gig which will become the music server and a refurbished 2nd generation iPod nano/8 gigs for travel.
My money is on the “iTouch” become a bigger (8″ x 11″ and/or 11″ x 14″) and better iTablet” very soon now!
And priced along the lines of a Min Mac…it might just up and replace the Min-Mac as the entry level Mac!
On second through Keep the Min Mac I still need to up grade my aging Quicksilver 2002 and was thinking alone the lines if a Min-Mac to go alone with my new 23″ Display
I would bit!
I can’t wait for applications from Home Theatre manufacturers to sync your Itouch as a universal remote to your home theatre (using of course Apple TV). Not only will it be a single console for home theatre, but also a game controller, home security device, etc.