Analyst expects new iPods next month

We've certainly had plenty of indications that some new iPods would be coming sooner rather than later, and an analyst at UBS Investment Research now seems to be saying much the same thing, albeit with a few more rumored details and a bit more certainty. According to AppleInsider, UBS's Ben Reitzes recently told his clients that he expects to see some refreshed iPods sometime next month, including higher capacity iPod nanos at "aggressive price points," and a flash-based widescreen video iPod "likely using multi-touch technology" priced under $300. Reasonable bets to be sure, although we'd still recommend taking them with the usual grain of salt pending word from the man himself.

[The General @ Aug 21st 2007 2:34PM]

Analysts expect a lot of things...

[Billy Fiul @ Aug 21st 2007 3:46PM]

Your face expects a lot of things.

[The General @ Aug 21st 2007 3:48PM]

Your mother expects a lot of things!

[Abuzar @ Aug 21st 2007 10:15PM]

Your mother's face expects a lot of things!(Think about it)

[KultiVator @ Aug 22nd 2007 4:36AM]

...and I have come to expect a lot of things when I face your mother!

;-)

[narco @ Aug 21st 2007 2:35PM]

This combined with Macrumors' report about Samsung's 160GB drives makes me very excited.

Fishes,
narco.

[scott @ Aug 21st 2007 5:13PM]

Those suckers are very very new, maybe in an update of the upcoming players but Apple does indeed test the materials they put into their iPod line.

The exciting thing about the 160gb drive is the potential for modding 80 or even 60gb players to have much much more memory.

[LegendZ28 @ Aug 21st 2007 2:43PM]

I expected new iPods months ago, where's my Engadget post?

[Paul @ Aug 21st 2007 5:39PM]

Your article is in The Onion.

[Andrew Stone @ Aug 21st 2007 2:52PM]

I wish i had a job that i could be considered to be doing well simply by:

1.) Reading engadget
2.) Saying what I read
3.) Having engadget report on it

[RyanTV @ Aug 21st 2007 3:04PM]

mark me down for a flash based ipod video. I returned my 5.5 version because of terrible battery life... would definitely like a flash based + multi-touch version. Let's just hope they are bigger than 8GB.

[yoshi @ Aug 21st 2007 3:05PM]

Please stop using the term "sooner rather than later". It's meaningless.

[x20mar @ Aug 21st 2007 3:08PM]

Actually seeing new iPods and when they get to the shops are different issues, my guess in Christmas just to get more money

[Jake @ Aug 21st 2007 3:08PM]

It would be insanely stupid for Apple to depend too much on Nand flash for the video iPod line when no one is demanding that everything go Flash with the cost being so much higher than HDD. Samsung is coming out with a 160 1.8 inch HDD which would be so much better than a 16 GB nand flash iPod.

[Paul @ Aug 21st 2007 3:12PM]

I'm as big an apple fanboy as anyone, but they are waaaaay overdue on an ipod refresh. If you look at the current ipod it really hasn't changed in over 2 years (I would hardly call 5.5G ipod a change). If we look ahead 5-10 years and someone else has stolen the top mp3 player reign from Apple, it will be at their own doing. They need to continue to refresh every year, 6 months at most.

It'll never happen, but I would love to see an ipod with Wi-Fi.

[FreshJulius @ Aug 21st 2007 4:09PM]

They call this thing an iPhone. They're new.

[Matt @ Aug 21st 2007 4:27PM]

Actually, the correct terminology would be "every 6 months, or 1 year at most"

[Paul @ Aug 21st 2007 4:34PM]

The iphone is completely different than my ipod. It costs much more and holds less music.

Thanks for the English lesson... if you have that much time on your hands to correct grammar....

[shaka999 @ Aug 21st 2007 5:11PM]

Don't we all love a smart-ass (especially when they are a dumb ass as well). Give me an iPhone without the phone and monthly charge.

[Zach Fichtler @ Aug 21st 2007 4:44PM]

"It'll never happen, but I would love to see an ipod with Wi-Fi."

Kinda like the Zune, huh? Hopefully, Apple would have enough sense to not restrict the music to 3 days/3 plays... then again, maybe I *shouldn't* get my hopes up about that...

[HineyWipe @ Aug 21st 2007 3:15PM]

It's another "Duh" event. Not to be confused with the car maker's 'Duh' sales event. I predict an analyst will sputter nonsense from its facial orifice.

[Jeff Foster @ Aug 21st 2007 3:16PM]

I assume that if there is ANY ipod news, it'll have to come after September 19th, which is when the current "$200 mail in rebate for iPods when you buy a computer with a student discount" promotion ends.

Which makes the timing of my iMac purchase really freakin' tricky. :(

(wait until new ipods but probably loose out on a $200 MIR? wait until October and just get it when 10.5 comes out, but miss out on a $200 MIR and months of computing? Just get it now and stop being a little bitch? damnit, i just don't know.)

[Michael @ Aug 22nd 2007 12:14AM]

Last year, if I remember correctly, they didn't wait. They released the new iPod before the student discount was up, you just were limited to the old iPods with the discount.

[yoyodude64 @ Aug 21st 2007 3:34PM]

ok so im thinking...
up to 16gb nano, because any thinner and the headphone plug wouldnt fit.

160gb video, cuz of samsungs announcement. that wud also stay consistent with the 10x memory rule currently in effect (8 vs 80)

i bet the 'iphone nano' will be released at the same time.

[Mark @ Aug 21st 2007 4:05PM]

That 10x thing is more of a coincidence rather than a rule. When 40GB iPods came out, 4GB of flash was unheard of.

[Brian Polensky @ Aug 21st 2007 4:07PM]

Ijust hope the iPhone Nano will be announced. I NEED IT!

[yoyodude64 @ Aug 21st 2007 3:36PM]

sry the comment abt any thinner was referring to me thinking that it will b the same form factor...just forgot to say that lol my bad

[Billy Fiul @ Aug 21st 2007 3:46PM]

I would totally have intercourse with a 16GB nano.

[The Pepto Pimp @ Aug 21st 2007 4:04PM]

Wow! That's strong affection. You know...

In Soviet Russia, 16GB Nano has sex with you.

[jessy @ Aug 21st 2007 3:50PM]

wow maybe they will make a good product this time around

[Wolfticket @ Aug 21st 2007 4:00PM]

I doubt they will use the 160gb hard drive due to cost, 120 seems more likely. 16gb flash video wide pmp might happen, or 16gb nano.

[v_dogg @ Aug 21st 2007 4:07PM]

give me a flash based iPod with widescreen that ive been waiting for hmmm for about 2 years now

[q2h @ Aug 21st 2007 4:19PM]

Oh yeah, there will be new iPods next month. Mark my words. There will be new iPods next month.

I work in retail.

[KultiVator @ Aug 22nd 2007 4:44AM]

So how would a jeans fitter from the local GAP store have special insight on the new iPods line-up?


;-D

[nickroz @ Aug 21st 2007 4:28PM]

What's an iPod?

[Emmanuel Farrar @ Aug 21st 2007 4:32PM]

Man, Apple just keeps us spending money.

[Kris Burbidge @ Aug 21st 2007 4:43PM]

I'm sure there will be new iPods by the end of next month. Back to school rebate (eg. cleaning out of old inventory) will be over, and it will have been a good 3 months since the last big product announcement. I'm sure they like to have at least one of those per quarter so it'll juice their earnings :)

[Detox @ Aug 21st 2007 4:49PM]

Engadget:

Analysts expect next month to be September!!!

[Andrew @ Aug 21st 2007 5:07PM]

I work for a large electronics retailer and am personally waiting for an ipod to replce my old broken one. I looked in our system last night and there is not a single store in the state of AZ that has any 30GB Ipods in stock. (Referring only to my retailer of course). Secondly I looked at the information on the unit and we have the 30GB Ipod with an end of life date of 9/15/2007 which means that by that date we SHOULD have the new ones in stock and already on sale. In the rare event they are not in stock by that date they will definitely be released within 2 weeks of that date.

[Mike @ Aug 22nd 2007 1:31PM]

I also work in a retail store and my boss got an e-mail saying that we will have new ipods next month, they didn't have any details on what it would be, just that we will have them.

[Johan S @ Aug 21st 2007 5:56PM]

When I grow up, I want to be an industry analyst. That way I can browse engadget and get paid for restatng what people on here speculate.

[tc @ Aug 21st 2007 11:39PM]

lol

[Keaton @ Aug 21st 2007 6:55PM]

Bump...

Change the article to "No Fucking Shit!"

[Dragod @ Aug 21st 2007 7:18PM]

Analysts Expect me to stop caring... now.

[Travis May @ Aug 21st 2007 9:37PM]

Well, considering that the iPhone is $499-$599 then the whole "under $300" sounds about right. It will probably $299 since an extra one hundred pennies would just be WAY too much to pay.

[Tim @ Aug 22nd 2007 5:01AM]

I wouldn't be at all surprised if the new line of iPods came out any day now.

I work at Circuit City, and I've definitely noticed Apple shipping a lot less iPods, even to our regional warehouse (which covers basically a quarter of the nation), which always happens when someone is about to put out a new model. They haven't obviously put it on clearance yet, but it probably won't be long.

Of course, this might just be the fact that Circuit City is tanking and Apple doesn't want to waste too many iPods on a company that is quite obviously going under.

[keithwwalker @ Aug 22nd 2007 12:54PM]

Perhaps Apple will get their head out of their a** and implement A2DP stereo bluetooth? Probably not, those signature white cords are free advertising...

[Davin Peterson @ Aug 22nd 2007 3:12PM]

Everything is always iPod. Stop talking about the iPod all time and more about the Creative Zen line, which are better than the iPod.

New Zen's are expected soon as well.

[Joey @ Aug 25th 2007 12:00AM]

If it has anything less than 60GBs of memory, I'm not buying it.

It COULD have maybe 2GB flash and 120GB hard drive. So when you watch a movie, the movie is loaded into the flash and the hard drive doesn't spin at all while you're watching it. Making seek times faster.

And it'd better be like the iPhone in some way. If it's still a fullscreen or if it's smaller than iPhone [I want bigger], then I'm not buying it.