The highlights of the iPod Classic and Nano lineup are the innovative click wheel and UI that make navigating thousands of songs, pictures and videos a piece of cake. This click wheel plus UI combo had become the trademark feature of the iPod lineup until the iPhone and iPod Touch came in with their new Music app which has a touch friendly UI with sliding menus but not the click wheel navigation.
iPod Classic
Apple’s new iPod lineup revealed along with part numbers
A reliable source at the Apple Insider forums has provided a list of the new upcoming iPod lineup which shows no storage capacity increases for the iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle and only an upgrade from 120 GB to 160 GB for the iPod Classic. The iPod Touch is entirely missing from the line up which is being attributed to the rumored camera related technical issues that the first batch of iPod Touch shipments had. Significant changes to the Nike + iPod are also expected.