EDIT -
It has been released. It has a 6GB Hard Drive and a new 18 hour battery life (no color screen). It will remain at 250$, while the 4GB Ipod will be 200$
It looks like a new Ipod Mini is going to be announced with the following new features:
- New Seagate 5GB or 6GB HardDrive
- Full-color active-matrix TFT screen with 176x132 resolution
- RunOn technology (complete skip protection)
Quote:
Within the next two weeks Apple will announce an updated iPod mini with a color screen and higher capacity hard drive, Think Secret has learned. Highly reliable sources have confirmed that the next iPod mini will gain a full-color active-matrix TFT screen while the form factor will remain largely unchanged. The color screen will be able to display colors clearly and brightly regardless of ambient lighting, even outdoors in direct sunlight.
The new screen will be about the same size as the current iPod mini display and will sport a 176x132 resolution. Apple's move to a color screen on the iPod mini is part of the company's shift away from monochrome displays, sources said. Standard iPods will also gain color screens across the board with the next update later this year. The move toward color screens is part of an effort by Apple to keep its industry-leading iPod looking new and fresh.
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http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0502ipodmini.html
Personally, this doesn't surpise me at all. I went down with some kids from my high school computer class to check out CalState Fullerton (college) and literally 1 in 5 people had an Ipod. It was almost scary. And if its THAT populer, then updates like this are needed.