What do you want to see in the next iPod?

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Ok folks.

New iPod is supposedly out in Octoberish time.

Recent iPod price drop, along with slower shipping times etc is indicating we should be hearing about it in september.

But what do you want to see in the next generation?

For me its:

Remove the clickwheel (I really really hate it) and go back to touchwheel or completely touch screen like the iPhone

Firewire support - USB is just to slow for mass transfers

Hard Drive - I'm hoping they stick to hard drives and don't go all flash memory, a nice 30gb is always good for lots of music and easy storage, especially if the next one will be widescreen like the iPhone that's just screaming for movies!



What do you want to see?
 
touch screen, no buttons.

flash memory, (its much faster and more reliable) its the future :p

better sounds control... i.e. equaliser settings. (that wont happen)

lose the white altogether :p

bluetooth/wifi maybe.
 
lemonkettaz said:
flash memory, (its much faster and more reliable) its the future :p
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And when was the last time you saw a reasonably priced 80Gb flash drive ;)

But yes, I would certainly like it to be all touch screen, and also perhaps support a better range of video formats...
 
If they could offer a 32GB or even a 64GB flash-based iPod then I'd be happy.

I quite like the clickwheel (can't see a problem with it?), although it would be sweet if they went all touch a la iPhone :D

I could see it as a scaled-down iPhone, but perhaps just enough design difference to differentiate it from the iPhone.

Agreed, FireWire is nice but I can't see it coming back now..
 
Stupidly, I want it to be this:

ipod6gen1da7.jpg


Touchscreen, Tilt for widescreen video. Bluetooth as well.

/dreams
 
Is that the latest concept doing the rounds?

I'd be happy if they kept the same design, but I think it's paramount to get the horizontal widescreen for video viewing!
 
Thats looks spot on tbh.

Definitely has to go widescreen.. should put much more video support too, because at the moment its weak as anything.

quicktime sucks for video support.
 
Slogan said:
Stupidly, I want it to be this:

ipod6gen1da7.jpg


Touchscreen, Tilt for widescreen video. Bluetooth as well.

/dreams
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Thats what I hope the new video ipod wil look like, but I just dont think they will endanger their iphone so soon? I know many people bought the phone because of video capabilities? For video esp. If apple do go all out iphone style video ipod wont it hit iphone sales?

:confused:
 
Not sure if it would hit sales all that much, depends on what people are looking for I suppose.

I carry an 80Gb iPod around as I like having all of my music with me at once, so the 8Gb of the iPhone for me would feel very limiting as its not how I choose to transport my music about.
 
It was doing the rounds for the 6th gen. But with the iPhone basically being an iPod I'm not even sure what gen we're at now.

It would be brilliant if it came out and it was like that. Wide screen video would be a huge plus and I think touchscreen has to be on their minds, with how taken people are by the iPhone.

If you could tilt the player during music play back (so the layout of information changed) it would be extremely nice too.

I'm just not convinced that Apple will go for it. I don't think they would risk so many changes to what is their best selling product. Which is a shame as I would definitely buy it if it looked like the above.
 
Phate said:
Firewire support - USB is just to slow for mass transfers
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Sorry this is something i dont understand, usb2 is 480mbps yeah, so about 60mBps theoretial max, show me a 1.8" HDD that can maintain that transfer, let alone more! If you had firewire 800 support, youd be up to 100mBps ish, not sure this is even achievable on most 3.5" hdd's, let alone portables.
 
Firewire sustains its datarate a lot better than USB2 in my experiance, thats why I would NEVER record audio onto a USB2 drive in my studio.
 
wij said:
Firewire sustains its datarate a lot better than USB2 in my experiance, thats why I would NEVER record audio onto a USB2 drive in my studio.
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But the drive itself cant maintaint the speed anyway, the bottleneck is the mechanical nature of the drive, NOT the interface.
 
Chris1712 said:
Sorry this is something i dont understand, usb2 is 480mbps yeah, so about 60mBps theoretial max, show me a 1.8" HDD that can maintain that transfer, let alone more! If you had firewire 800 support, youd be up to 100mBps ish, not sure this is even achievable on most 3.5" hdd's, let alone portables.
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Firewire just transfers the data quicker,

USB shares it's bandwidth with other USB ports, therefore slowing it down. Firewire has it's own channel (or whatever you call it) so it just transfers the data quicker. That's why the more expensive external HDD's have a firewire port as well as a USB.
 
Phate said:
Firewire just transfers the data quicker,

USB shares it's bandwidth with other USB ports, therefore slowing it down. Firewire has it's own channel (or whatever you call it) so it just transfers the data quicker. That's why the more expensive external HDD's have a firewire port as well as a USB.
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So you have other transfers going on at the same time, enough for it to be a bottleneck on a slow 1.8" hdd, that probably tops out at 20mBps anyway?
 
Isn't there also a rumor going around it will be flash based rather than a HDD?

If so then what would the transfer rate be on a solid state disk? Maybe worthy of having firewire 800.
 
TheKnat said:
Isn't there also a rumor going around it will be flash based rather than a HDD?

If so then what would the transfer rate be on a solid state disk? Maybe worthy of having firewire 800.
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If that happens, then it would be a good idea yes. But i can't see an affordable 80gb SSD based iPod coming just yet.
 
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