Yea the way foward. Me personly would love an ipod that could transmit
music to my Airport Express rather than transmit from my Mac that way I could see what music will be played next etc.

Well, announcing to the world that you are trying to do business with Apple and leaking what a possible product feature will be, is an absolute GUARANTEE that you either a) are not doing any business with Apple whatsoever, and b) you never will.

I suspect this is just some idiot CEO's attempt to drum up some business from Apple's competitors. Leak you tried to sell to Apple which gets Apple's competitors to call you.

This is just a sleazy sales technique. Nothing more.

I suspect we won't see this until bluetooth connections in cars are very common. Remember to keep the headphones charged every day would just be a pain in the rear end, and there really isn't a huge market of nice Bluetooth headphones yet, and many of the ones available are fairly heavy.

Steve is going to do his best to make sure the user experience doesn't suck (note he let Belkin manufacture the suctastic CF reader). Also, how many rivals offer this functionality in their players? one has to figure that Apple will follow on this rather than lead, simply because rival companies will likely try to jump ahead of the curve simply to have the feature line item, regardless of usability.

On a side note, I'm wondering if Apple won't release a "Nano Tubby edition" that is a bit thicker but incorporates a 8GB 1" drive to attract people who need a bit more space, but like the smaller form factor over the full size 20GB iPod.

Nothing wrong with wireless audio. The music I stream on my Airport Express is
superb. Seriously, really is excellent. Apple will design a device where the headphones will be charged via USB when charging the iPod I suspect.

great mock up.....

guys...remember: BATTERY......bluetooth probably drains the hell out of the ipod/headphones.

one thing to suport the bluetooth deal is that they cahnged all their lines to include bluetooth 2.0



i recently got a bluetooth headphone form motorola...and it's sort of a hazzle because it needs to be paired....i use it for my pw and for my phone and i have to make a quick configuration...apple would have to do something easier.



the best motorola headset can hold up to 8 hours talk time and about 120 standby. so take the mic out and you probably get 10-12 hrs i gues....thats right about the same amount for the ipod. the diference is the charging. once they do it it will porbably not come standard, because that is something to profit from. i would do it as to small headsets, conected by a small thin rope, behind the head. so that you son't loose them.

i would only put the BT in the higher end models so that you don't compromise space in the nano/shuffle

just one error in the mock up....the headphones...the nano has the port inthe bottom because the screen takes up the space. but otherwise good job.

If those are 1 inch thick, that must mean they are like 8 inches wide. That's HUGE! That's more than they are now.

J/K

erm, if that is 1 inch thick, what is it like a foot tall?