iPod flash reported facts.

no ... screen .... eww

I cant believe apple would consider not having a screen...but appleinsider.com also report that toshiba will supply the flash based drives

i dunno but i don't feel they can afford to give it to you for 99 bucks and have a screen..

No screen worked for Oakley's Thumps. For $99, I bet there will be a small amount of flash memory onboard. 256M tops.

and then there was. . . this?

Originally posted by Bolicious
No screen worked for Oakley's Thumps. For $99, I bet there will be a small amount of flash memory onboard. 256M tops.

i don't think any store has sold any Oakley Thumps, they're $500 and only have 256mb

This is the *WORST* business decision apple has made over the iPod.

I give it a month...

it will have a screen, i mean come on, my lil cheap mp3 player was 99 dollars and has a one or two line screen, like someone said, its macRUMORS.com i seriously doubt it will not have a screen.

If it doesn't have a screen on the device than it will definitely have one included via remote or something similar. You simply cannot have an mp3 player without a screen and still make it easy to use...as Apple so often prides itself on.

Originally posted by Laura.Miles
So when is this new ipod going to come out? Should I wait until the MacWorld expo in January before getting one? I want an ipod mini really badly, but if something great is going to be annouced in a month I will wait.

I don't think it's going to be particularly great. I'd go for the mini if i were you, it's got much more space than this flash iPod will have, and it has a screen....

has anyone seen this mockup done by themacmind.com?

http://www.themacmind.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=618

If this is all it is, that's crap, it's simply another small mp3 player...but white.

http://www.ipodlounge.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=368245
That is by far the best flashpod idea I've seen. But look at all that wasted space...there could easily be a 3 line LCD on there above the buttons. Add a little iriver style screen on the front and it's perfect.

i've always thought ipods were great because they had tons of stoarage and they looked good. i dont like flash based media players. apple knows what theyre doing. i cant believe they would not put a screen

Even my SG$49 (~US$30) Creative Digital Mp3 Player 2 which I bought at the Creative Warehouse Sale has a screen. Although it doesn't display the track name, it displays stuff like track number and time elapsed. It has a screen though and nothing changes that.

no screen is ######ed

If you mean more functionability than one without a screen then I would agree. I could go for having a little more screen a little less button and to be honest maybe a little less player. The player seems like it would be a little big for a flash job.

If it doesn't have a screen, it's not because of price. 99?? calculators have LCD screens and I'm pretty sure it costs less than a tenth that price to the company that makes the calculators to pay the overhead.

A playlist that lasts a gigabyte, impossible (improbable, at least innavigable).

Would be cool but probably not gonna happen: speach oriented navigation. You put on your headphones.
"Welcome"
"Select your submenu"
<<you click the forward button once>>
"Playlists"
<<you click again>>
"Browse"
<<You double-click the select button to skip ahead to artists>>
<<click again for the letter you want. You scroll thought the letters in a quick mode by holding the button while the sexy female voice says all the letters in a fast forward sort of mode. You stop on the letter you want>>

Blah, blah, blah.

The menu system would obviously be compressed a great deal for more simplicity. And since it is a flash system, you are expected, at least for the most part, to know what you want to listen to in advance. The playlists you know you'll listen to the most will be under the playlist menu. Not a machine meant for browsing. Not very userfriendly either. Still a decent idea.

But more likely than not, it will have a screen. Who ever said there was no screen was probably talking about the drive (card) and not the actual device itself. LCD's are cheap. That's that.

The guy who says this will fail 100% doesn't remember the release of the MiNI when everyone said the same.

EDIT: Sorry for stealing your idea. I posted before realizing there was a third page. What a coincidence. BTW welcome to the lounge (at least as a contributing member)

Would someone care to donate a copy of Photoshop? I had forgotten how long it takes on a PC to use Paint well. Took so long I almost forgot why I did it.

This is a nice way to keep it compact and user-friendly (I'd still stay with my 3rd Gen anytime).

my personal fav.
http://gallery.ipodlounge.com/ipod/displayimage.php?album=4&pos=116
i didn't make it it just looks cool.
very real too.

http://gallery.ipodlounge.com/ipod/displayimage.php?album=4&pos=121

this is the one, its looks really good...who ever did it should of won 1st prize i think... but the other 1st prize is good too, thats just my 2 cents...My $36.00 mp3 player from target had a screen on it that displayed the time, song name, time elapsed etc. The new design should certainly be a super thin mini but instead of the 4GB hd, it will use flash chips, much more convenient than looking like everyother mp3 on the market, who wants the same old generic MP3 design...uh, not me!

I liked the pic in the first link ipoddersyounite, i could be tempted to buy one of those if they were released/real :)

Only 2 days to wait for the actual unit......:D (hopefully)

oooh never mind your back in my home country. where are you from? im from south london.

newcastle, you had best to be supporting them. warren barton is our close friend :)

http://gallery.ipodlounge.com/ipod/albums/userpics/normal_found_at_CompUSA.jpg

Originally posted by ErnestRutherfor
and then there was. . . this?

I Like it... Hope it looks like that. And doesn't take the cookie cutter creative MUVO/Rio stick shape.

~Take Luck

POST 900!!!!!!!!!! 100 more... then the 1,000 post...

ur on post 899.

Ok, so lets hear it, who actually likes the new iPod, personally i dont mind it since it could be nice if u only put on songs you really like, but the lack of a music library would limit my enjoyment of the iPod since I can get bored of 100-200 songs pretty quickly.

Ok, so lets hear it, who actually likes the new iPod, personally i dont mind it since it could be nice if u only put on songs you really like, but the lack of a music library would limit my enjoyment of the iPod since I can get bored of 100-200 songs pretty quickly.

The iPod Shuffle looks like a pregnancy test.