Is Apple planning to add a camera to the next-gen iPod nano? According to the images shared by Apple.pro, they might be. According to the post, the photographed nano prototype features the same compact square case, but with a noticeable hole at the back that’s filled with a mobile camera’s bits and pieces.
Apple also used the “Let’s talk iPhone” event to announce updates to the iPod touch and iPod nano. What’s on tap for the world’s most popular line of music players? Nothing big, really. For the iPod touch, they announced lower prices and a new white variant, while the iPod nano got a number of interface tweaks along with lower prices.
Remember the leaked image of what was reported to be the hollowed-out shell of the 7th-gen iPod nano back in April? Well, it looks like the built-in camera just got unofficially confirmed after another leaked photo showed the back-end. It still bears the compact, squared-out shape of the 6th-gen nano, but instead of a clip, the upcoming nano’s fitted with a cam at the upper left corner.
A leaked image of the next-gen iPod nano doesn’t really show much, but it does say a lot. We don’t know the specs and we don’t know all the features, but here’s a couple of things we can get from this rather blurry shot of a nano’s empty shell: it looks like they’re going to keep the tiny touchscreen form factor, and, unless that hole in the corner’s a clever new way to fit some kind of lanyard, it looks like the 7th-gen nano’s going to rock a camera again.
See, here’s our beef with a touchscreen player: it’s hard to control it when it’s in your pocket. Ditto for cold weather when you have to use gloves. Or times when you just can’t be bothered to look at the player just to skip a track, like when you’re working out. Or driving. Or when the police officer tells you to turn down the music because he caught you fiddling with your nano while driving. And the iPod classic still has more than enough space to store every song we’ve ever heard, which makes it perfect for us because we never work out or wear gloves. Anyway, Apple just put out a firmware update for the new iPod nano to fix that (the hard-to-control part, not the storage thing).
