Sources—the best kind, unnamed ones—are telling Think Secret that the next version of the video iPod could hit as early as next month, but won’t sport rampantly presumed features like a 16:9 touchscreen or OS X. Rather, it’ll keep the same resolution screen (320×240) and run the updated OS we pegged as a pre-iPhone prototype. All of this will be crammed in a new, shorter body with Blackberry-like proportions. We’re not buying it beyond the headline.
https://gizmodo.com/rumored-6g-ipod-user-interface-may-be-real-but-old-pro-281077
It’s not too hard to swallow there’s going to be an iPod update this year. But a new video iPod that doesn’t at least pack a widescreen? Moreover, it’s already been said by Steve Jobs himself that OS X-based iPods are coming—so isn’t more than slightly pointless to develop and launch another, crappier OS in the interim, especially if, according to TS’s sources, the OS X-based ones will roll out less than a year later?
https://gizmodo.com/apple-employee-address-reveals-ipods-with-os-x-appletv-273318
Oh, and Blackberry proportions? Not sexy. [Think Secret]
