Next iPod Nano Sighting, Plus That iPhone Nano Rumor

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on August 05

Colleague Cliff Edwards, next door on Tech Beat reports having seen a device he theorizes is a next-generation iPod nano, sporting a touch screen. (Sorry no pictures.) He argues pretty convincingly that its a likely change for the fall. I’ve been thinking that the transition to the current nano model, nicknamed “little fatty” had happened too recently for it to be time for a major change to the nano. But then there’s the issue of consistent look and feel. If the iPod touch is now the flagship of the iPod family, and it looks like an iPhone, then shouldn’t the nano also look more like an iPhone as well, and as such sport a touch screen? Makes perfect sense to me.

Meanwhile, another colleague, Olga Kharif, tackles the rumors reported by a UK paper (*cough* linkbait *cough*) that we may see an iPhone nano soon. Um, how shall I say this? No way, not this year and certainly not by Christmas.

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