Latest iPod nano (mock-up) revealed

Jonny Evans
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August 28, 2008
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 We've all been waiting for it, we all know they're in the pipeline, and while we don't want to speed up time (cos you can't roll it back) we're looking forward to what September will see falling from the Apple tree. .. could these be the products that we see?

These are just the latest and greatest set of (made up) pictures showing you just what could be on its way, cf. Digg Founder Kevin Rose. You know - goodbye short and stubby iPod nano, hello return of the new longish model, with a sideways screen, ho yus...

So - is this the face of the all new iPod nano? Short answer, no, but it's possible they aren't that far off the mark. Being Apple of course, who really knows?

Via: Gizmodo

Comments (18)

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | August 28, 2008 - 9:34am

really cool!!!

Rich UK (not verified) | August 28, 2008 - 9:38am

About the curved front (and therefore screen) also how in this mock up would the clickwheel rotate also so that the writing changes when its lengthways? But pretty looking anywho

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | August 28, 2008 - 9:40am

wasnt this a mockup before for the nano?
i thot i saw this on youtube.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | August 28, 2008 - 9:41am

boring

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | August 28, 2008 - 9:54am

I did that a long time ago...

http://forum.macbidouille.com/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=7558

Jensonb (not verified) | August 28, 2008 - 10:02am

This whole sideways screen thing makes me very damn nervous. It's not an idea I've liked in devices of that shape before (It works on iPhone/iPod touch because the controls are digital and rotate with the screen). It could work, if Apple rotates the click wheel like in that mockup. Still, I think they should just scale down the iPod classic and keep it ruthlessly thin.

crtaylor (not verified) | August 28, 2008 - 10:20am

I'll just have to see this play out when the real thing gets released. For one thing, the short and stubby iPod Nano has a really small screen on it, so they would have to return it to the longish model. This would probably give more space for memory as well. On the other hand, it would be sort of awkward with the screen to one side. The iPod Touches and the iPhone really champion the sideways screen well because they're just encased screens anyway. I think the best thing to do would just have an iPod touch nano in that case. Then again, only Apple knows...

Jensonb (not verified) | August 28, 2008 - 11:46am

I'll agree

Maverick18x (not verified) | August 28, 2008 - 11:48am

Except it's going to be aluminum. Every tube-shaped iPod that's ever existed is aluminum (2G shuffle, mini, 2G nano), and with the eco-friendly push Apple has had the past couple years… it's going to be aluminum.

James (not verified) | August 28, 2008 - 12:30pm

With the added space maybe a larger 1.8" hard drive?

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | August 28, 2008 - 1:29pm

the clickwheel area is unnecessarily large

cart_69 (not verified) | August 28, 2008 - 2:25pm

If it's anything like this it will be a waste of R&D time. Because this is nothing more than a bigger 2G one. The nano needs something radical to change to make it worth updating after a year of the stubby one being out. Especially as so many people have bought the stubby one. Apple won't bother with a whole event unless its really worth it anyway.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | August 28, 2008 - 4:57pm

I think that the nano and touch will simply get color upgrades and be changed to anodized aluminum backs. I found it odd last year that they switched the nanos from all aluminum back to the horrid chrome back. I guess it was just to give you a reason to buy the 'new and improved' one this year.

As to the nano-with-a-bigger-screen idea, it's called an iPod touch. Big screen for widescreen videos + flash memory.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | August 28, 2008 - 5:01pm

A reliable source told me that the screen will be a wide screen which will take up 2/3 of the iPod, and the bottom will have a wheel like the current iPod Nano, that size, it will have back light controls Play, back, foreword, etc... and it will have an accelerometer and when yo turn it sideways the back light controls will then change position and the iPod will be working with the click wheel the way you see it.

umbex (not verified) | August 29, 2008 - 12:54am

just a small screen with touch enabled, no controls, no wheels, unnecessary.

Jonas (not verified) | August 29, 2008 - 7:42am

I'm stunned, that IS a beauty!

Charlie (not verified) | August 29, 2008 - 8:45am

NO..NO..NO..NO>>

The next generation ipod nano will be exactly like the touch but a smaller version of it. Mark my words.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | August 30, 2008 - 7:06am

looks more like a LG product than an apple one.

hope that poster above is right... mini-ipodtouch would be sweeet