Skip to footer

Apple said to be revamping iPod Touch, iPod nano

Along with a new iPhone, Apple could release a pair of new iPods. 

|
Reuters
Apple exec Philip Schiller talks about the iPod nano at an event last year.
  • By Matthew Shaer

Later this year, probably around October, Apple reps will climb up on a stage in California and unveil the latest iPhone. And according to KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple is also planning on using the occasion to launch a new line of iPod music players. Kuo told MacRumors that both the iPod Touch and the iPod Nano will be "all new," with a much improved "in-cell" display. 

Meanwhile, the Japanese tech site Macotakara (hat tip to Lance Whitney at CNET) says the iPod Touch will get a better chip – an A5 processor instead of an A4 – and a buffed aluminum backside. (The current model is reflective metal.) So is this the real thing or just another burst of unsubstantiated gossip? 

Well, Apple, predictably, is staying mum, but it makes sense that the Cupertino company would want to revamp the iPod, which was first introduced way back in 2001 – and which went basically unchanged last year, save a few minor color changes. Apple is pretty predictable with its updates: Every two years, any given device, from the iPad to the iPhone, gets a substantial overhaul. 

But here's a question: How much longer can independent MP3 players last?

With the advent of the iPhone, we jettisoned our iPod – there was simply no reason to carry around both a music player and an iPhone, which is essentially an iPod Touch with an extra antenna. Apple is still selling millions of iPods, but as Cult of Mac reported recently, 2012 Q2 iPod sales were down 15 percent year-over-year. Makes sense to us. 

You've read  of  free articles. Subscribe to continue.
Real news can be honest, hopeful, credible, constructive.
What is the Monitor difference? Tackling the tough headlines – with humanity. Listening to sources – with respect. Seeing the story that others are missing by reporting what so often gets overlooked: the values that connect us. That’s Monitor reporting – news that changes how you see the world.
editor@csmonitor.com
Subscribe
Mark Sappenfield
Editor

Dear Reader,

About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:

“Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.”

If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.

But you know what? We change lives. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in.

The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908.

We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. And we can prove it.”

If you’re looking for bran muffin journalism, you can subscribe to the Monitor for $15. You’ll get the Monitor Weekly magazine, the Monitor Daily email, and unlimited access to CSMonitor.com.

Subscribe to insightful journalism

QR Code to Apple said to be revamping iPod Touch, iPod nano
Read this article in
https://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/Horizons/2012/0724/Apple-said-to-be-revamping-iPod-Touch-iPod-nano
QR Code to Subscription page
Start your subscription today
https://www.csmonitor.com/subscribe