Yet another iPod nano 4G render? Sure, why not
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Sep 4th 2008 4:58AM
posted Sep 4th 2008 4:58AM
[Thanks, Chris W.]
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I like it, looks pretty sweet.
Yeah, it looks pretty sweet, just like a Zune 8, but (here it comes): Curved. which makes it better than a Zune 8 whatever the features are going to be.
/something
How do I end the sarcasm?!
Yeah, I agree. Looks hawt to me.
And it's going to be aluminium all around again!
l like it more than the nano phatty design, is the nicest thing I can say :]
Hi,
I really preferr the wide design and would not consider getting a new one if it had more memory than 8gb.., any other news on specs? how much memory? any other new funky gizmos? like portait/landscape sensor or something??
Apple has added an iR to the 4G Nano so iT can be used as a remote for iTunes and what not.
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The more I see it the more I like it.
Better than the 'fatty' but with a larger screen than the previous nano... Good no?
I really hate the rounded screen
Yeah. I dont know why is Apple obsessed with the rounded design. Its convenient to watch video on a flat screen.
Don't worry, apparently the screen peels right off.
(It's rounded because of the wifi antenna.)
It looks like the front could be flat, perhaps just the back rounded - If you look at the edges it appears there's a tiny bit of a ridge to where it flattens out at the front...
See? It's looking sexier already!!
It's not that nano, though! This is more like a mini that anything else.
In this render, the screen looks less curved. If this is getting closer to the actual design, then that can only be a good thing.
Yeah I was worried about this but from the dimensions "leaked" yesterday it seems that the curvature is just on the sides and thte screen is flat. Fingers crossed
Looks quite fame to me, like a stretched Nano 2nd Generation. Also, the screen is very impractical for viewing video. Surely this is Photoshopped. The screenprotector is just there to distract.
Well, Apple must be out of their minds for producing a curved screen on a portable media device. It just doesn't make any sense, at all; it doesn't feel like Apple!
maybe its just the glass over the screen thats curved...
Even though Jean, a curved reflective cover means lots of lights on the eyes wherever you turn the nano! It's not a big deal for me as I'm never buying an iPod, but this isn't how Apple usually work!
I would have thought a landscape screen instead of portrait would be preferable, i dont like this design.
It probably has an accelerometer to rotate the picture for wide-screen video.
Its obvious that apple is not trying to pull another WWDC and make us go WOW!!! there simply making some cosmetic changes, this thing looks like its going to be so unbeleivably thin and the same with the supposed touch. There revisions, almost pointless revisions. it now means the origional ipod touch and the ipod nano "fatty" are now officially outdated. ITs a plow by apple to make u upgrde to something that is hardly an upgrade, and for waht???
Man i hate those Apple plows. No use at clearer snow whatsoever.
And so i f**k up the spelling.
Something odd strikes me...
Before the iPod nano we had the iPod mini, in a alu casing. The 1G iPod nano appeared in a similar size, just a lot thinner, with plastic front and metal back. Then the 2G iPod nano had the same shape, but full alu casing like the iPod mini. The 3G iPod nano changed shape, but kept and alu front, much like the 2G but grabbed back to the glossy alu back from the 1G. Now the 4G iPod nano seems to go back to it's original shape. It wouldn't be that improbable, given that Apple always seems to recycle previously used designs and solutions in new generations of it's iPod nano's. Is it a coincidence or am I on to something? No idea really... just something to think about...
I'm wondering what kind of cover they will use this time: glossy alu, brushed alu, plastic?
So people like it now because someone made a great render* ?
Where are the people who are saying it will look like crap ?
I'm right here. ;)
But this render certainly makes the design look more appealing, as the screen doesn't appear curved like in the previous pictures. Cross your fingers and hope this is accurate[-er], Apple boys.
Of course, none of that matters if it still has the same old crummy sound quality.
We've all been subliminal influenced by our ambivalence towards Kevin Rose and what is probably a crap, $10 4G Nano case.
Yeah, none of us thought about the fact that everything we've seen so far were cases, which always make the iPod look about 3 times as thick as they really are. Although it the scrollwheel is really recessed a tiny bit like in the render it's going to scream "shoddy" to me.
I dunno though, this isn't really much of an update. It's probably not going to add features except a likely accelerometer, so I don't see the point of anybody buying this if they have one already.
Why would they make a step back from ultrastylish to ultraugly?:)
"Sure, why not" em because you have already had one on the site?
I don't see how this is a step forward in design. Aside from the taller (wider?) screen, its just a previous design flipped the other way. What needs to happen is, a Touch Nano.
OK so this is not related and would definitely have been covered by others but why has Engadget not said anything about Google Chrome?????
Yeah, i like Google Chrome.
Agreed, I've been using it nonstop since they released it (I actually haven't ever exited), and while I know almost all the facts about it, it would still be nice to see a feature wrap up here.
As soon as some add-ons get released (*cough cough* Adblock *cough cough*) it'll likely replace Firefox for me.
I just started using it and it's using half as much memory running Pandora... Thank you Google.
There is headphone jack from bottom wtf
You've clearly missed the last couple nanos...
This is easily the most hideous iPod of all time.
That's impossible because it looks almost identical to all the other nanos and minis before 3rd gen
Would a curved screen suggest a lower power flexible screen such as an OLED?
Kodak has used smaller ones in cameras for a few years now....
Google Chrome +1
I don't really like this new 4G - but if it comes in 16GB at the right price, it's mine
Would kinda like it if Apple would make up their mind - they keep alternating between a polished chrome back and the anodized aluminum back at each generation
One issue I have with this claimed design is that, presuming the Nano is still intended to be able to play video, and considering that to watch video you, presumably, turn it on its side, now the scroll wheel buttons, at least as labeled, will be rather odd. Press/hold up to skip/scan back? Press/hold down to skip/scan forward? I guess you'd get use to it, but it's rather strange. Of course this might not be the design at all, or maybe the scroll wheel is no longer labeled in this fashion.
Back and forth, back and forth. C'mon Apple make your mind up! You can only make it so thin, tall, wide, etc...
What they need to do is improve the sound quaity - or is that no longer the purpose of an mp3 player?
What's there to render? I mean you can tell EXACTLY what it will look like just by the leaked case that was out. I suck at photoshop and I could probably do that.
ZOMG!! A new ipod, I can't wait to throw out my year-old one and buy this!!!
But will it play Divx/Xvid files? Don't think so...
does this look familiar........oh thats right. its a design from the old 2g nano clones
http://podclone.cutprintingcost.com/images/1.8%20nano%20G.JPG
Remember when we were all watching "fish bowl" televisions? Some things retro are cool; those are not.
File this and all other articles for the Nano under "Who Gives A Crap". I mean come on.. my SanDisk jump drive is bigger than this thing and costs a hell of a lot less... who really gives a crap about a 4GB MP3 Player? Get real. So not news worthy. Now if you announce a 32GB or 80GB iPhone 3G.. ok I can see a legit reason for a lot of buzz.
Fugly! This render is more belieavable due to the fact that it has that lame proprietary port on it.
nano is on a diet and is still growing, it not big-boned anymore
I can't wait for them to announce that videos are played in a wide ratio holding the iPod sideways... I would so love to hear what Jubei would have to say about that... Probably something about how innovative it is and totally destroys the Zune.
Come on, Jubei, I know you want to say something. :)
You know, looking at it in a different light, it IS sexy. I liked the original iPod nano's better than the fat design that is out now. This design might even mean I can use it without thinking i would crush it, haha.
Come on guys! This is another poorly produced render. There has been a freakin brilliant mock-up of the new nano out for over week. http://www.iphonesavior.com/2008/08/amazing-ipod-na.html
You need to get out once in awhile and look around.
Nice, taken without credit given to the original posting. at ZolloTech.com posted an hour prior to this one.
Oh, not that I am bitter, I love engadget, I am just saying....
Disappointed yes, but not with the new Nano design... On the contrary, this new sku will blow the market away both in terms of price point and new innovative functionality- hundreds of millions will be sold.
I'm just disappointed that no-one has figured it out yet. Sure, lot's of folks have danced around it with observations of what seemingly appear to be contradictive aspects of the device including a seemingly ergonomically challenged, odd shaped flat elliptical design, click wheel that will be awkwardly sideways when watching landscaped video, recessed / protruding wheel & screen on mock-ups that would be problematic to use base on case form-factor, etc.
And of course, the ultimate contradiction- what is so innovative about a Nano throwback to an earlier size simply with a bigger screen that would necessitate AAPL senior leadership to issue a warning concerning (historically) lower margins based on new technology and pricing strategy??
OK- STOP thinking traditional Nano. If you think it odd that Apple would marry touch screen technology with the traditional mechanical click wheel technology on the same device- you'd be on the right track. Remember, what you're looking at is nothing more than photos of a Nano *case* based purely on specs sent from corporate to 3rd party vendors (it's amusing but nothing Corporate Legal is concerned with). The traditional click wheel as you know it is a thing of the past as of next Tuesday. The wheel functionality as we've come to love it will stay intact, but will be converted completely to 'touch' technology- a virtual click-wheel if you will- and yes, even one integrated with accelerometer technology which auto-adjusts based on orientation.
In fact, what if Mr Jobs showed you how the *entire* surface area of the Nano was a single wrap-around SCREEN? There, NOW you know why the curved edge elliptical case came from. As to what you'd actually use the wrap around screen for? I'll leave that up to you to connect the dots. Let's just say, few will be spending hours deliberating which color Nano to go with. Choices are as varied as the rainbow- what the hell- MAKE it a rainbow if ya want!!
Cheers my friends
The new iPod Nano Silver has a black scroll wheel. Apple is also introducing a goldenrod color and is re-introducing orange. The screen dimensions are the same as the current third gen model.
The colors have white touch wheels, Black and Silver are using black touch wheels. Fun Stuff!
Looks Like The Old One
http://www.ljplus.ru/img4/c/k/ckybe/_ipodNEW.jpg - Another One?
http://ckybe.livejournal.com/17063.html