Business to business website Alibaba.com has posted for sale a “Screen Protector for iPod Nano 4th Gen” along with this photo which shows a device that has what looks to be a stardard iPod Dock Connector at the bottom. Is this the next-gen iPod nano to be introduced during Apple’s September 9th special event?
Alibaba’s “Screen Protector for iPod Nano 4th Gen” page is here.
Digg founder Kevin Rose posted a similar photo (different angle) on August 25. More info here.
[Attribution: ZolloTech. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Feldman” for the heads up.]
Good looking device.
iPods are getting boring. i sure hope steve has something more interesting to show than this.
We saw this pictures weeks ago.
Yeh I agree, there is only so much you can do with an iPod…
…although I must admit the iPod touch is lurverly!
It is getting hard for Apple to keep a secrete. There are just to many people involved these days.
“It is getting hard for Apple to keep a secrete.”
True. Leaks can get messy.
that ipod looks so long to me. Perhaps it’s just the picture.
FAKE.
Peely plastic is a givaway… plus it looks like an aircon remote control.
Photoshop!
sorry john, I am going to disagree here. I call good on this one. Especially since there is a doc connector. Some of the other photos showed different. Plus it is pretty detailed at the base, most mock-ups aren’t.
I don’t see apple turn the screen for video like that. I think it’s a nice looking fake.
@/ln
“iPods are getting boring”
Uh, so, uh, smart guy . . . what would you have them do? Mow your lawn? Pleasure your wife? Write your next resumé?
Quick Story: Every time a friend’s father heard one of his kids say that he was “bored” or that something was “boring,” he’d smack him upside the head with a quick “Here. This’ll give you something brand new to think about.” Seems relevant here.
I agree Jamie,
the iPod touch is still interesting. It would have to have audio and 64Gb to take my money though.
If the Ipod nano was all touch screen with wifi but sans blue tooth, but with motion sensors and full browser I’d see it as an advance. If it’s this picture though, I’d see it as a regression… unless there is something we’re not seeing… a drastic price reduction maybe?
Perhaps the 64Gb touch with audio is coming, along with something to bridge the iPodTouch-MacBook gap….. based on the new processor technology apple acquired recently….. now that would keep my interest until new Mac hardware is released along with Snow Leopard….
now i’m all excited… darn it…
I also call fake. It’s bigger than the current Nano, and Apple wouldn’t make you turn your screen sideways without having some way to turn the control buttons at the same time.
I see the Nano replacement getting rid of the scroll wheel altogether and putting the controls on screen with multi-touch. It won’t necessarily be a fully iPhone/iPod touch compatible OS, more like the existing nano but with a bigger screen that takes up the entire face and adds the iPod navigation of the iPod touch.
Hey Randian, I think you’ve had one smack on the head too many!
Other people can have an opinion you know. Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one, and they usually stink.
If Gens 1 & 2 sort of look like this with a different screen and Gen 3 is the Fat nano, why would Apple devolve back to the shape of the earlier generations? I see a lot of Fat nanos out there so seems a bit odd to me..
Overused quote is overused.
@Randian
your answers yes, no and yes.
seriously, haven’t you ever been bored of something and wanted or wished it would change?
the only reason i ask is, well being is bored is natural. that’s why kids get bored. they crave for stimulation. just like your wife.
What if the click wheel was a display of some sort that would shift the button layout along with the main display. I’m sure they’ve got the tech to do it fairly cheaply, and it sounds like a typically elegant Apple solution to me.
Angelus520: If Gens 1 & 2 sort of look like this with a different screen and Gen 3 is the Fat nano, why would Apple devolve back to the shape of the earlier generations? I see a lot of Fat nanos out there so seems a bit odd to me..
This elongated form factor could offer a bigger screen with less “dead” space around the scroll wheel; In effect, being smaller than the “fat nano” overall but offering more screen real estate at the same time. Quite a convincing idea, I would say.
At the same time much better suited for vertically scrolling lists than the landscape display in the “fat nano”.
No Doubt!
Looks a little Zuneish to me!
I agree. Its fake. Why would Apple shrink the screen size back?
Fake for this reason. Last year, the photos leaked and apple took them down right away. This year, the photos leak, but they are still up on the internet. This are not the real ipods.
I side with the fakes…