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09/03/2007, 11:50am, EDT

Monday, September 3rd

Post: Wi-Fi iPod, iPhone nano are real

A news report claims that two long-rumored Apple products, a Wi-Fi-enabled iPod and the iPhone nano, are in fact real. The Washington Post says that it has obtained documents composed by an Apple partner, suggesting that both products will be released within months. The new iPod will not only have Wi-Fi but an iPhone-like touchscreen, and the iPhone nano will deliberately target a lower price point, less than the current 4GB iPhone.

The revelation of one or both devices may, as widely anticipated, coincide with Apple's special event planned for September 5th, to be staged at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. A teaser image in the invitation features a silhouetted dancer with an iPod, and the caption, "The beat goes on." This may however be a reference to The Beatles, whose album catalog may finally make an appearance at the iTunes Store.

Another possible product announcement for the 5th is a new, video-enabled iPod nano, for which images emerged that were quickly forced offline by Apple. Though unconfirmed, it may have features such as a wider screen and an aluminum face.

The iPhone nano has been rumored for several months, but if real may ship as early as the holiday season, and use technologies built for a smaller size such as click-wheel dialing and a backside touchpad.


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09/03, 12:44pm, EDT
...so when the Washington Post publishes a story that hasn't been fabricated by one of it's employees, it's regarded as real but when a Taiwanese journal does likewise, it really is only rumour! Double standard or just racist standard? It's time the Post stopped dining out on Watergate, today it's no more credible than any other nudespaper!
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WiFi Enabled iPod
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09/03, 12:44pm, EDT
A WiFi enabled iPod sounds to me like a real game changing product.

The iPod would have much of the functionality of the iPhone (whenever WiFi is available). It would offer much of what the iPhone offers without the AT&T monthly payment. That would be a cause for one very big celebration in the user community.

An iPod with YouTube, Google Maps, Safari web browsing, eMail, etc. would be compelling. There are 100 million iPod owners and many of them would want this upgrade. The iPod would be a much more useful and valuable item to own.It changes the very nature of the product.

Let's hope they announce such a product on September 5th. If they do, then Apple can soon watch Zune and other competitors disappear rapidly in their rear view mirror.

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I want Upnp
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09/03, 1:41pm, EDT
Would be great if the iPod could act as an UPnP music server, so that you could stream your music wirelessly to UPnP devices like those Terratec Internet radios or an XBox 360. I may be broke at the moment, but if they release something like this on Wednesday, I'm in for some serious credit card debt. Hooray!
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iPhone - minus the phone.
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09/03, 2:02pm, EDT
I hope Apple releases a new iPod that is the iPhone, without the GSM radio...

Touch screen, Google maps, iPod Video, iPod, rich web and email... Would be a really nice device...

If they added support for some of the USB headless GPS receivers and tied that into Google Maps... Wow.

I doubt we'll see it this soon after the rev a iPhone release... I want to be wrong... I'd buy 2 of the above... I just don't see it happening.

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wow
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09/03, 2:08pm, EDT
this would be really cool. imagine it has an ichat feature as well.
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Re: minus the phone
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09/03, 2:14pm, EDT
I don't see Apple doing that. That would really cut into the sales of iPhones. Just because they say it'll have wifi doesn't mean it'll have the iPhone features. It could just end up being a Zune-like wifi capability. Just not in brown.

And, feathers, because MacNN is claiming the talk is "real" doesn't make it so. They are still, in fact, rumors. And I feel sorry for whoever this apple partner is who let this info loose.
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WiFi
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09/03, 2:16pm, EDT
Downloading audio and video on the iPod is an awesome feature. GPS would be a big plus, and a bigger plus if they have it for the iphone.
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agree
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09/03, 2:18pm, EDT
Yup...testudo's right. I forgot the obvious, this is a post on MacNN which casts it into a realm of dubiousness that in fairness, the Post have yet to fully navigate. They are trying however, guess they'll bump into FoxNews at some stage!
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09/03, 2:35pm, EDT
Care to let us in on the original report from the Taiwanese newspaper? There's a difference between rumors that have shown up on many sites and actual documents detailing an upcoming release.

Let's talk about the Post for a moment. Exactly who was it that broke the big story about the conditions faced at Walter Reed by wounded vets? I didn't see any other "nudespapers" ahead of the game on that story. I haven't seen any "Page 3" ladies in the Post recently.

A final p.s. Lose the baker's apostrophe (it doesn't take an apostrophe in the possesive).

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09/03, 4:04pm, EDT
"And I feel sorry for whoever this apple partner is who let this info loose."

It was probably Uniea lol
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