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New iPod Nano, iPod Touch, iTunes 8.0, and Blu-Ray in OS X 10.5.6?

Friday August 22, 2008 9:39 pm PDT by Arnold Kim

Digg.com's Kevin Rose has posted a new blog entry and YouTube video claiming to have knowledge of upcoming iPod updates with a significant number of details:

- Revamp of entire iPod line.
- Small cosmetic changes to Touch, Nano to see significant redesign (see above)
- iPods to see fairly large price drops to distance itself from the $199 iPhone.
- iPod touch 2.1 software, iPhone to get update very soon after.
- iTunes 8.0 ("it's a big update w/new features").
- All of this coming in the next 2-3 weeks.
- Blu-Ray support coming in Mac OS X 10.5.6

Rose details the rumors in this video:



Rose has been the source of a number of Apple related rumors over the years with his most recent claims having some accuracy. The new iPod nano that he describes is depicted above and is consistent with claims made by iLounge.

Update: Rose's rumor track record: 3 right, 2 wrong, 1 part right.
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Quillz
45 months ago
The rumors may prove true, but I sure hope that's not the new nano. It looks... ugly.
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NJDevils44
45 months ago
Could be true, I don't know about the picture tho...
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vega07
45 months ago
if it comes in the next 2-3 weeks, that's before the end of the back-to-school promotion...
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ungraphic
45 months ago
When will iTunes become JUST for 'tunes' ?? Its bloated, ram hogging CRAP, and not all of us have or even want an ipod, iphone, itouch, itv, etc.

Can they just just release an mp3 ONLY application?
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a1016neo
45 months ago
I'm not going to judge the design yet, but if this is true.... this redesign looks sweet... I hope it has a glass screen!
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MasterNile
45 months ago

if it comes in the next 2-3 weeks, that's before the end of the back-to-school promotion...


As it's been noted before on many threads, they have released new product during the back to school promo so that doesn't mean anything, I don't think they will, but it is possible, but if it looks like that...which i highly doubt, I think I'll be holding on to my cash
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iToaster
45 months ago
That doesn't really look like a new Nano to me, it just seems too quasi-futuristic for Apple. I can see Blu-Ray support coming in Snow Leopard, but I can't see what revolutionary feature will be added to iTunes in version 8.
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Aznsensation45
45 months ago
sounds good...except that the picture of the supposedly new nano looks sorta alien-ish...don't like it.
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gcmexico
45 months ago
I kind of like the new nano, if that's how it will look...small little wide screen...price down sounds great!
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davak
45 months ago
I am trying to think what new iTunes features I would want. Plus, all of those features would have to be extended to new OS rollouts for Apple TV, iPod, iPhone, etc.

Tags on iTunes would be nice... but I can't see that getting passed down to all the hardware any time soon.

Any ideas for new iTunes features?

I can think of a ton of bug fixes.... but enough features for a new version?
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