With Apple Music making waves, a dedicated music-playing device like the iPod suddenly seems more relevant than it’s been in years. Which is why it’s great to hear that Apple is reportedly planning to introduce a refreshed lineup of iPod touch, nano and shuffle media players on Tuesday, July 14.
The upgrades are said to involve new colors — including electric blue and fuchsia, along with classic black, pink and a slightly darker gray option. However, the iPod touch is also likely to receive a major boost, upgrading its current A5 processor to a new 64-bit one. Woop woop!
These tweaks are seemingly backed up by the model numbers, with the nano being upgraded from n31 to n31a, the shuffle from n12b to n12d, and the iPod touch from n78 to n102.
The future of the iPod has been the subject of discussion for quite a while now, with the once-massive product line playing a smaller and smaller part of Apple’s business. While simple color upgrades for the iPod nano and shuffle aren’t going to miraculously turn things around, a new and improved iPod touch could suggest that Apple’s not quite ready to throw in the towel just yet.
Source: iGen.fr
Luke Dormehl is a U.K.-based journalist and author, with a background working in documentary film for Channel 4 and the BBC. He is the author of The Apple Revolution and The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems … and Create More, both published by Penguin/Random House. His tech writing has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, Techmeme and other publications.
9 responses to “Believe it or not, Apple’s working on new 64-bit iPods”
Why not? Not everyone needs or wants to be locked into the contracts associated with an iPhone from the carriers. You get all of the functionality without the contract. Keep your iPhone 5 for calls and use (the much cheaper) iPod for everything else. Seems like a no brainer.
but the iPods are not Popular!!
Who cares? Are you living your life for you or for the people around you?
They still outsell any other MP3 player.
The Classic is very popular. The 160g models are selling for $700 new. Music enthusiast with large collections love them because you can carry large portions if not the entire collection with you where ever you go.
And developers like me who like Android device as a personal device but want to have a iPhone for development purpose can have the iPod. And now I can development for both Android and iPhone. Yipeeee…
Unfortunately Apple Music does not work on iPod nano…. That´s a reason to not join the hype
I’m thrilled this is happening, I’ve been worried that the iPod touch was on the chopping block for a while now. The main reason I’m happy about this is for my kids, I’ve got one already, one on the way and hopefully a 3rd after that. Call me old fashioned but I have no intention of giving my kids a cell phone until they are at least mid-late teens but I still want them to enjoy music and a few games plus the ability to iMessage me from any friend’s place or public wifi.
They better work on the nano interface as well…I hated it ever since release (somehow looks cheap) and now it doesn’t even match any other OS UI they offer.