We've gotten a tip that there could be a new
iPod nano color on the way -- purple to be exact -- due to a Circuit City circular ad distributed in Minneapolis this weekend. As far as exciting or even remotely interesting rumors go, this one falls about one space after dead last, and is most likely some kind of funkdafied CMYK mishap, or worse yet -- the most boring Photoshop job in the world. Still, for all you serious iPod aficionados who simply must have the latest shade, perhaps your player will soon be awash in Grimace-colored tones that only the Hamburgler and Prince could truly love.
Update: Well you can rule out printing errors, thanks to tipsters Jack and Joe [but not necessarily photoshops, thanks to Eliav]. Check it out after the break -- you can make the call for yourself, For now we're placing this one back on the table.
[Thanks, Tony T.]
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posted March 2nd 2008 7:33PM
Looks BLUE to me.
HAHAHAHAHAHHAAHA.
That is all.
Well, the Vs.'s part looks Purple.
But usually printed stuff looks a bit different then it is in real life, so i figured it was printed a bit darker than the original which would make it look purple if it was originally blue.
i live on long island.
i noticed the same thing in the circuit city flyer that came in newsday also. i doubt this means anything, unless the flyers arent all produced in one location..
There's a purple shuffle so it would make sense.
AH! I already own a Nano in green. I always thought the purple was nice and they needed to bring it to the Nano!
apple really hates colorwarepc.com if this is true.
Comment threads here are starting to get as bad as Joystiq.
amen
Yea another IPUD. IFone, IPUD Shuffle, Ipud Nano, Ipud Touch-Myself. Wow very slow news day at engadget. I'm sure the ISheep will be lining up in droves to get it.. I'm sure as soon as Steve rules the world I'll end up in Ichains and Ishackles. All hail the Igod..
It is supposed to be the red nano.
the only store that sells the red nano is apple it's self
I live in the Twin Cities and looked this ad up online on the circuitcity.com site and found this picture.
http://akimages.crossmediaservices.com/dyn_rppi/592.0.90.0/circuitcity/large/080302_20_yh6k7.jpg
so im positive its not a misprint
OMG OMG A NEW COLOR, OMG OMG OMG, I GOTTA GET ONE, OMG!!! OMG!!!! GOTTA COLLECT THEM ALL OMG OMG!!!
maybe its for the minnesota vikings.. their colors are purple
maybe its for the minnesota vikings.. their colors are purple
WHOA WOW, HOLY! it's Purple... Finally
jeez who cares....?
I'll take CMYK error for 500
Don't worry haters, this article will be gone before you know it. Calm your arses down.
(in the tune of Beethoven's fifth) "gay gay gay gay..."
You may not intend to, but you sure do sound like a bigot.
"...gay gay gay gay..."
I would like to quickly note that on top of that page, there are boths ads for the Creative Zen Stone and iPod shuffle...two directly competing product lines...both are 1GB...but one is $30...the other is $80.
/troll
The Shuffle is now $49 for the 1 Gig and $69 for the new 2 Gig
And good luck getting the songs in my music collection that are from iTunes to work on a Zen Stone. At least with an iPod I get that assurance and can keep up with my music on my Mac/iPod/TV. Zen Stone would be useless for me. I also get AAC encoding and audiobooks that bookmark properly on my portable device.
Oh, yeah... And have fun being condescended to when talking to scripted tech support in India when your Zen Stone acts up.
Oh, yeah, and the 1GB shuffle is $39 if you buy it refurb'd from the Apple Store.
We're talking about new here. Keep up.
I'm still waiting on the Blue Zune at Target. Another Minneapolis mistake.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/blue-zune-leaked-via-target-ad/
It's funny because the Zune article was so damn negative, while the Nano article is not. The Nano is hideous enough WITHOUT purple.
So true. It's pretty hard to get that through some people's thick skulls around here. It seems that no matter what Apple does to their iPod lineup, people will salivate over them. They could make an iPod that looks like my grandmother's flabby arms and people would go nuts over it.
Go ahead and rip on me you Apple lovers you.
That's the color of my Shuffle. I like.
i noticed this this morning at work and pointed it out to a couple of my coworkeds but in our magazine the blue and the silver were not the right color and mint look super green..
Bad printing of this image, that is all
http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/gallery/index10.html
If you look at the ad online using flash, and use the "magnifier feature", you can ALMOST make out the product numbers along the bottom.
Now, go to apples website and you'll see that none of the product numbers for current ipods match up with what is on that ad (ie: you can see well enough to tell that the numbers aren't the same).
Hence, this is probably legit.
`Better detective work than mine. Kudos.
wow...I can't believe there are 50+ comments on an article about a color of an iPod within an hour of its posting. And yet, I can believe it...because it's Apple. OMG it has something to do with a product with "i" in the name!! Let's all go make a huge deal about nothing at all!! (and yes, I realize the irony of this post)
No. It's not real. As pointed out it is a bad color proof of the original stock image provided by apple. http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/gallery/index10.html
Notice in the ad, the silver one looks bluish-silver... They added a little extra blue to the image, thus pink becomes purple.
Does NOBODY here understand how colors mix and have the basic observation skills to see the extra blue in the silver iPod nano and the formerly white backgrounds on the screens?
Oops. My own observation skills eluded me. The image I like has the red one and the ad doesn't.
Hmm.. It's still too much blue in the silver one.
i saw the same thing here in atl. i was suprised to see such an ugly color, but hey i guess some people like it.
I want an orange one. Then i want to break it.
Man, I could kill myself... I already have one in green, but I love that purple more than life itself. Maybe I'll call the crisis hotline and ask them what I should do.
I'm actually now contemplating getting a nano.
I'll wait until purple hits for real, and if it doesn't, well, then I won't even worry about it.
Grey, red, purple... it doesn't matter. The iPod is simply unnecessary: http://lowtechtimes.com/2008/01/08/the-unnecessary-ipod-or-why-i-do-not-own-an-ipod/
Not photoshopped- It is definitely purple in my ad (I live in the Minneapolis area). As to if this is a misprint, I do not know.
Just a heads up...
Circuit City has officially released an ad correction stating that the circular has a misprint and the pink iPod is mistakenly shown with purple tint. Ad corrections have been issued to stores, and there is an official disclaimer at circuitcity.com
Wow. This is obviously edited. Look at the MJB album on the purple iPod, it's Grey-ish.
Now, look at the one on Apple.com/iPodnano....Look, a pink iPod with the same album art on it...and the color in the album is more colorful!
its the prince edition
Not that it isn't obvious (as pointed out by other), but here's the correction I saw in a Circuit City: http://flickr.com/photos/tonyskyday/2310983887/
I posted this to my blog on Sunday of this week. I took the picture. Look at the pings.. http://theconnectionpodcast.com/2008/03/02/purple-ipod-nano/
If you don't find this news worthy, and are going to subsequently hate Engadget for posting it then don't look at it.
Sort of like violent games and "controversial" films. If you don't like it, don't pay attention.