Well its great to enhancement to iPod, its really recommended.

Would be nice if the following were true.

1) iPod Touch updated with camera, flash, LED, and 5Mp (16Mb, 32Mb and 64Mb models).
2) iPod Touch Nano with same camera features above and LED screen. Comes in multi-colors
3) Retirement of the Classic
4) iPod Touch Pad: a larger form factor with iPhone OS that's made for competing against the Kindle for reading books and watching movies.

That much is obvious, but what will be changed and how?

iPod Shuffle: Im wagering on it staying exactly the same, not even a price drop, but Im hoping for a whole mess of colors to be added.

iPod Nano: I think that a camera is very likely here. I think the colors will stay the same.

iPod Classic: Discontinued? This all depends on the sales numbers that we arent privy to, but if I were to wager Id say that there is a certain market for them. Are there single platter 1/8" drives larger than 120GB? For some reason I think that this device wont be getting a camera. The HDD may be too slow and I think its best to keep this model simple.

iPod Touch: Camera is coming for sure. I also expect some features that will be here first and then brought to the iPhone next summer as they did with the headphone controls last year with the iPods. I am not sure about 64GB version unless it costs $50-$100 more than the current 32GB Touch.

AppleTV: Take 3! Different case with new internals. Ion?

I hope they keep the classic around. Some people like to keep lossless music in their pod and want the storage capacity. Also some like the physical buttons of a click wheel.

I am all for choice. Be it glossy or matte, firewire or USB, AT&T or Verizon, etc etc.

Keep the classic! It's internal RAM is fast enough to take pictures with a camera. I'd like to see 240GB, but I doubt it.

There will be no flash (as in flash bulb, not flash memory) for the camera on any model.

and same form factor - That would be a killer Touch ...

*sniff*

Goodbye, large capacity, hard drive based iPod Classic...

I'll miss your decent price and large storage capacity..


HELLO SOUNDCHECK CAPABLE, NO REPEAT RANDOMIZED PLAYLISTS, NEW iPOD TOUCH!!!


To explain:

iPod Classic doesn't do Soundcheck, and I don't know if the others can or cannot, as the Classic is my iPod of choice for it's huge capacity to hold all my music AND a copy of my iTunes folder for backup.

So, when playing my iPod, despite my hours long iVolumed Library (which uses Soundcheck), all the songs change volume, which sucks.

It works fine from my MacBook Pro hooked to my stereo, but not when using the iPod.



Second, randomize is not fixed. Songs still play in some sort of row and some songs never get played at all. I had to create a smart date playlist to hear all my 8000 songs play in a random fashion using iTunes and my Mac hooked to my stereo, this can't be transferred to a iPod as it's static and has to be hooked up to the computer to make changes. (perhaps the iPod touch? but low capacity!)

What we need is a smart randomize, that plays all songs in a playlist equally and not the same song twice in a row or before all the others have played first. Then when the playlist is played out, to start over with a another song with a different randomize.


So Apple needs to fix these two things in the next iPod, as well as bump up the capacity.