60 GB Color Screen Photo iPod?

ThinkSecret has published a rumor of a new 4th generation iPod featuring a previously rumored Toshiba 60 GB hard drive. In addition to the rumored size increase the new iPod is said to have a 2-inch color liquid crystal display, iPhoto synchronization, audio/video-out capabilities, and will sell for $499. Form factor is not expected to change, although the new iPod will be slightly thicker and heavier than the present 20 and 40 GB models.

The 2-inch color screen is identical in size to other iPods, but will sport a higher resolution for photo viewing. However, the new device's real shining feature will be its video-out port, which will enable users to tote their photo galleries with them, ready to be plugged into any television for big-screen viewing.

The 60GB iPod will feature only rudimentary built-in software for viewing photos, with no editing tools, sources say. Photo albums will be navigated in a similar fashion to music playlists, and a slideshow feature will provide transitions with user-specified background music, similar to iPhoto. Synchronizing features similar to iTunes will also be added to iPhoto.

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Photo slideshows WITH music, output to TV OR on the small screen (I show photos on my camera all the time, after all) is much smarter than a tiny movie player in a not-so-compact MS device.

And album art display--fun by itself, even more fun with a TV :)

(The smaller iPods could use this too, I think.)

Great, I just bought a 4G 20GB iPod. The day I buy a G5 will be the month before they release a G6.

Maybe I shouldn't have been in such a hurry to buy my 20GB last week.
This sounds nice.

i_b_joshua

Man, I can use one. I almost filled my 40 gig.

I hope you can do more with the color screen -- if it's just a normal iPod screen, except in color, then that'd be kind of lame.

.narco

I have often thought that the iPod would eventualy include iPhoto integration, but what about Windows users? Will this mean the porting of the iLife apps to Windows? How can they add a feature like this an exclude the majority of iPod users? If they want to sell them then they will have to offer Windows support. And of course if they port iLife why not everything else? They will make a killing on the software sales alone.

I hope they have some new battery to put in that thing.

Sounds like an AppleInsider story from March:

http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=393

they had the scoop after all, it appears.

OJ

What about the ability to import photos? Or at least an elegant solution (freakin' Belkin...).

Sounds good to me at any rate... my 2G 10GB ipod's getting full.