Purported images of fifth-generation iPod touch surface; capacitive home button, 128GB

By on Apr 5, 2011 at 10:49 AM
mobile April 5, 2011

New images of what is claimed to be Apple’s next-generation iPod touch have surfaced, though even the sites revealing the images are extremely skeptical of their authenticity. The most notable observations are a new home button design and the increased storage capacity of the purported fifth-generation iPod touch. Somewhat in line with our exclusive report from earlier this year, the device pictured lacks Apple’s current home button used on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Instead, it appears to showcase a capacitive home button. An image of the device’s About screen also reveals 128GB of internal storage, which would be a 100% increase compared to the current model. While there is not yet any conclusive evidence that these images are real or fake, the storage reading is a bit suspect. An iOS device with 128GB of storage should display a capacity reading somewhere between 115GB and 120GB, not 126.5GB as the images show. Hit the jump for a few more pictures of the device.

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  • serpentor

    BGR, you have no shame – reporting things, while also pointing out it’s skeptical. Take the high road and leave it alone. It doesn’t need to be talked about.

    • Anonymous

      Given that this is a tech site, and that you actually came to read this article… I think he’s feeding the people what they want, esp. with Apple news. It’s one thing to just report on rumor; it’s another to report on a rumored device that apparently real in the above pictures. May not be authentic… but then again it might just be, and there’s and even greater chance that you are going to buy one!

    • http://www.droiddoes.com/ Norm

      Serpentor,

      Couldn’t agree more. If this were a DROID rumor I’d be cool with it, but it’s not acceptable to me as an apple rumor.

      • Getfriednorm

        Get robocops dick out your butt officer Anne Lewis!

    • Senor Chang

      Why? Its a tech blog news and RUMOR site. If all one wants is confirmed facts all the time, then one doesn’t read BGR, engadget, et al.

      • serpentor

        There are rumors and then there are RUMORS. We already know Phil Schiller puts out bogus rumors just to throw the press off.

    • Ayport

      if all you want is facts of finished products,then you dont have to come to blogs like this…you go straight to the product site

  • http://twitter.com/Stea1th Stea1th

    NOT A FAN OF CAPACiTIVE HOME BUTTONS.

    It turns into a pain when you hit it by accident and it closes the app, like in the windows and andriod phones.
    please don’t do this apple! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • Anonymous

      Fear not. When it comes out, Steve Jobs will tell you Apple invented the capacitive button and everyone else didn’t know what they were really doing.

      • Ayport

        its magical

    • no noh

      Your’e holding it wrong

      • sirpaul

        getting overused

      • TUPAPI

        Your spelling is wrong, sir.

    • KCRic

      Good thing WM and Android have multitasking so you can just pull the app back up – no harm done. This is only an issue with FrApple.

  • http://www.techhog.com Michael T. Blake

    Could just be me, but isn’t the word “iPod” written a little large. I mean the font looks the same but it’s bolder and larger than previous models.

  • John

    meh

  • APpley

    Wow that looks so beat up. If it looked new I’d think it might be real but it looks like it’s been dropped 80 times and the pictures taken from a garbage camera or cellphone.

  • Va0101

    Very likely a prototype from the current generation iPod Touch and not the fifth generation.

  • http://twitter.com/webdude12 webdude12

    Still no flash for the camera! Fail Apple, once again. :-/

  • Tool

    This is fake as hell.

  • http://bit.ly/samirsshah समीर शाह

    I think these photos are genuine.

    I agree with Stea1th, no capacitive button for this very, very, very, very, very important “Home” button.

  • http://twitter.com/Slvrgun Illusive Man

    128 GB? I barely use 5 GB….

    • sirpaul

      I have 8GB of music alone. When you add GPS apps (for iPhone) or offline maps (for iPod touch), movies, TV shows, music videos, PDFs, games and all email for offline use…it really adds up!

  • KCRic

    Nothing to see here. Typical Apple, increase storage (the only surprising thing) and make one or two minor cosmetic changes – new product! Oh I’m sure there will be some minor hardware spec changes but only notable at best.

    • QuickWeevil

      Its not a new product. If it were new it wouldn’t be named “iPod.” Why are you threatened by a refreshed product? Is it wrong for them to improve a product? I’m not saying this is real since I don’t think it is but why make a big deal out of their annual refresh?

      • KCRic

        Sorry, I just don’t see adding memory as a ‘refresh’. If they allowed for upgradable memory i.e. an sdcard then this would be completely pointless but hey, who like freedom and choices anyway, right? They are doing the same thing Blackberry does except when Apple does it, it’s called a ‘refresh’.

  • sirpaul

    lol? 128GB from Apple? Yeah right, this is fake for sure. They aren’t moving past 64GB for at least another year.

  • RealDeal

    Wow revolutionary redesign!!!! Welcome to 2006.

  • Shanghai Dan

    It wouldn’t surprise me… My $110 7″ generic Android tablet I picked up 8 months ago in Shanghai (Tech City in Xujiahui) has capacitive buttons.

  • Anonymous

    If you blow up the picture the pixels around the home button look a little funny. I’m no pro photoshopper, but you guys that are please take a look.

    • KCRic

      +1
      I noticed that without blowing up the photo though. You can sort of see the ring around this ‘capacitive’ button. Last time I looked at my phone the capacitive buttons weren’t separate from the phone like a regular button.

  • Anonymous

    “An iOS device with 128GB of storage should display a capacity reading somewhere between 115GB and 120GB, not 126.5GB as the images show.”

    B G R: Debunking rumors.

  • KCRic

    So how does this change everything?

  • http://twitter.com/homescrub homescrub

    Why do leakers take such crappy shots? Stop being panzees and take a good camera shot without blur. FFS man!

  • zps

    128gb. sold. hurry up, apple.

  • macho99

    Just saying…..its not going to look like this cuz Apple uses old, or useless devices to test new technology

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