It is that time of year — after iPhone's launch but still a long way from Apple's autumn iPod push — when the iPod Touch rumors come wafting along the summer breeze. Will it look like iPhone 4? Will it have a camera? Will it have a front-facing camera? Jobs only knows.
This year's rumors are sparked by a sighting of a convincing-but-still-just-alleged next-gen iPod Touch part, spotted on Alibaba.com, a manufacturers' trading net site. &, according to reports from AppleInsider & others, they are also fueled by talk of a U.K. retailer's holiday sales presentation, which mentioned an iPod Touch with a 5-megapixel camera & HD video.
Last fall, Apple burned some iPod Touch devotees by bestowing a camera only to its iPod Nano (a camera, I might add, that was only for video & was low resolution). Because of that, it seems that the company will must stick at least one camera inside the thing.
It also makes sense that the front-facing camera would work as well on an iPod Touch as on an iPhone 4, given the fact that the FaceTime video-chat program currently runs only on Wi-Fi.
(My own wishful guess is that Apple will have FaceTime inter-compatibility between iPhone, iPod Touch & iPad by early next year.)
But Apple also likes to make sure that the iPod Touch is an obvious step down from the iPhone. Giving it both cameras found on the iPhone 4 & some other rumored features, such as an accelerometer & gyroscope — along with the updated look (which is presumably a sure thing) — might make it lovely.
When I asked Apple to comment — hahaha, kidding, I am not going to ask Apple about rumored iPod parts. They would not say anything anyway. Unless some dude loses one of these sweet new iPod Touch 4s in a bar somewhere, we'll must wait till Steve Jobs unveils them in a flourish-filled pageant, sometime in the first half of September.
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