Sure, we know that the photo up over there just looks like someone took a regular
iPod, squashed it down, duplicated it, colorized it, and then pasted the copies in a playful circle. But what -- just what -- if you're actually looking at the
3G nano? According to 9to5Mac (and at this point
only according to 9to5Mac),
Apple's next move on the iPod front will be short, squat, and muted-pastel colorful. The site previously reported that the new color scheme will come in a variety of shades not dissimilar to what their "spy shot" shows, so at least their own info lines up. Other than that? No corroborating evidence from Apple, and no leaks from other sources indicating this direction... let's just say we wouldn't make any bets on this particular piece of news.
Update - We've gotten our hands on a nice, large version of the picture, and as many of our astute readers have already noted, you can clearly see a window heading which reads "nano-flower.psd" at the top of the shot, which should give further pause to anyone taking this at face value.
Update 2 (August 23) - Our machinegunnin' lawyers advised we pull the original image, but we've replaced it with a mockup.
Full story here.
posted August 22nd 2007 9:10AM
in a word:
fugly
http://digg.com/movies/Jango_Fett_Halloween_Costume_PIC
I would like to let everyone know there will be a release of the new ipods before Christmas it will look very similar to the iphone and should drop one sept 4th.
Why? Because they can.
I don't get it. If this is the "new" version, similar to the iphone, then why the click-wheel?!?!
Looks like a total Zune ripoff.
Or at least the 2ng Gen Zune that Engadget (or someone else) mocked up.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/next-gen-zune-reportedly-on-track-for-holiday-season/
I know that was a joke by the way, but i think it looks like an iPod 5G rip-off!!
I think the new nano will be this myself: http://www.flickr.com/photos/83512992@N00/1020148556/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/83512992@N00/1020148556/ ...why does a touch screen iPod have a calculator?
That 150 dollar zune is looking pretty good right now. These are hideous. It looks like the nano went on a binge eating spree at krispy kreme.
Actually i think this is true, i have seen them on Sharpvision.com where if you are employed by a sharp retailer you can enter and get prizes from sharp for selling sharp products, this is on of them it also says it is 80gig, this Sharp promo doesn't end untill the end of sept and prizes don't come untill maybe dec... so maybe they will release the new Nano SOON
Why would Sharp give away a competitor's products?
and why would a nano be 80 gigs?
I smell SPAM.
I have no idea, but They are, the picture look EXACTLY the same as these ones do, and they are also giving away stuff like Garmen GPS and stuff.
I don't think so. The market is now expecting that Apple's next big iPod change will take it to touchscreen. If you had such a small device, would you willingly lose half the display side to a control surface? It looks too much like an iTamagotchi, which is what I predict it will be called if
I have a horrible feeling this is not that far off the mark you know. I've heard about a super small scroll wheel being included in the new 6gen iPod and this wheel is real small and would likely be the same unit.
This is one tiny device and it follows that nasty aluminium casing that the Nano now has. I think the iPod would benefit from a tiny tactile scroll and touch sensitive but on this it just looks stupid, or does it? I never know. Ow god, please let them keep the style of the 6gen iPod and leave this messy multicoloured gimmick stuff to the Nano.
Unless they fired Jonathan Ive, I call bull. Besides, the 5G iPod is in need of an update first, not the Nano.
look what he did to the iMac. don't trust him.
This is what would happen if MSFT were to buy Apple!
dude gates owns a ton of apple anyway lol
I have a hard time believing Apple would release a product so aesthetically unpleasant. We'll see.
Ergonomically unpleasant, as well.
There is nothing Apple-like about those pics.
Complete BS.
Actually they would, they call it the iMac... It's new.
I won't complain if they play video at 320x240 and keep the current price tag...
but yes .. they are ugly! I don't understand steve's love of everything aluminium, yes its a decent material to work with but don't ruin the ipods please!! first gen Nano was a beauty (although it got easily scratched but that can be fixed in the later models by using a more advanced poly coating) and this 2nd Nano is absolutely hideous! it looks as if someone has squashed an alimnium pipe and filled it with mp3 circuit put two plastic plugs on either sides and bob's your uncle ...
now if these 3rd gen Nano spy shots are real .. *sigh*
Wtf, the second gen Nano is faptastic, especially in red or blue.
I love my (red) 2G nano.
I think this is rather a 6G iPod than a nano... I heard something like this on one of the apple rumor website with regular iPod getting multiple color and shortened length modification. Anyway I'm gonna be waiting for touchscreen iPods...
LMAO
BS
ok i'm not even a fanboy, but apple would never do something this bad.
i think they're dope. now chicks wit nanos can watch videos too. Let me know when the touch scree 320 gb joints come out. I need those!
it's printed on paper, look at the edge on left :DD
It's called a 3D shadow... It's a part of the OS X GUI.
I'm so sorry, but when I was here, the pic was around 150x150 pixels "huge"...so I couldn't notice...now I see the control widgets, it's clear to me ;)
speaking of the shadows, they look strange to me.. the light comes from one side on the bottom three, and from another direction for the top two... i could be wrong, but i think its suspect...
For whatever reason I couldn't find a link to a full size shot.
http://www.9to5mac.com/files/Nano-spy-shot.png
Looks like someone print screened it to avoid photoshop "ducky" in hex.
"Woops! It looks like you tried to access a page that doesn't exist."
A bad mockup.
Remember all those ugly mockups we got for the Wii, Ps3, and 360?
Same thing.
Apple wouldn't make something this ugly.
But then again, Leopard is pretty bad.
i dont think Apple is this stupid.
This just cannot be true !!! I mean come on why on earth would they do such a hideous thing. Looks like a game boy to me! So not Apple.
These would be the ugliest products Apple's put out since the first gen iMacs.
This is total BS.
9to5Mac aren't the only ones reporting this, as it looks to be precisely what Think Secret described a month ago...
"Apple engineers are said to have shaved the height of the iPod while maintaining the same 320x240 resolution display and click-wheel as the current 5.5G iPod. The saved space will shrink about an inch off the device and give it proportions that in some ways more resemble a BlackBerry."
http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0707ipod.html
Yep thats just what I was thinking.
There has been talk from most if not all of the rumor sites about a "blackberry-esque" ipod.
Is this necessarly exactly what it will look like? No it could very well be a fake mock up but when the new ipods hit (not necessarly nanos) this is what I'm expecting them to look like.
To Apple - Finally, thank you biatches!
Apple's more tighten about leaked nano pictures then a virgin nun!
nano-flower.psd?
I call BS.
Surely Apple isn't trying to mimic the zune are they? But then again it is a photoshop file that they are showing
Looks like the new zune...
Well at least the older nano's will be cheaper
This is so incredibly fake. For those of you who think it's real, hit up the read link, and check out the larger version. It's not printed on paper. It's open on a computer screen (In an OS X preview window to be exact.) Filename is iPod-Flower.psd, and the shading on the edges is so terribly done, it looks like utter garbage.
For any of you who want confirmation of it's illegitimacy, just hit 'Read'. 'nuff said.
Take a look at the inner edge of the iPods. The lighting is wrong. The darker edge is always in the middle of the circle, and the shadow is always on the left. This is impossible, under any lighting condition.
Also, there is half the shadow missing on the black one.
Also, the filename is nano-flower.psd, my mistake from earlier.