Oooh, what have we here? Just a little later after a September 1 Apple “special event” is announced (we learned via Engadget, as always), we also discover some of these leaks.
Apple will hold a "special event" on September 1
Leak number 1
Early July, Taiwanese site Apple.pro posted up some shots of appears to be a tiny Apple-labeled touchscreen panel — it measures just 3cm (1.18 inches) square. Take a look.
What does this look like to you?
It’s a touchscreen panel, and we feel this might lead up to a new touchscreen model iPod Shuffle. Well, wouldn’t that be just great? Another iPod gadget to burn our money on. Darn you, Steve Jobs!!!!
Apple company marking on the touchscreen panel
Leak number 2
Earlier today, a Taiwanese retailer called X-Doria put these pictures up on the net.
Look at these curious iPod cases. Hmmm.
Take a gander at these. The top pair maybe confirms our initial assumption — a touchscreen iPod Shuffle might well be on the way. The bottom pair is for a touchscreen device similar to the iPod Touch, but lo and behold, there is a space on the casing for what seems to be a camera mechanism. The 4th gen iPod Touch might just have camera functionality.
This seems bad news for our pockets again, and Apple has deviously timed it for the upcoming holidays — we wouldn’t expect any less of them anyways. Shutterbugs and trigger-happy iPod Touch users may now enjoy doing more things with their iPods — although we still don’t know the capabilities of the camera they might put into it. We fancy an HD capable camera on it — which would mean delicious photos and video on their new iPods. This might necessitate a call for more Mac storage on their systems, like this Mac-compatible 500GB Firewire portable hard disk from DIGISTOR, or burn the HD content to blu-ray discs using the Mac-compatible USB Blu-ray burner.
