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Reports from Taiwan suggest that Apple may launch next month a new iPod that looks, feels and works like an iPhone, but without the phone part.

DigiTimes, a Taiwan-based publication that often leaks details about local companies that make electronic components for companies worldwide, says Taiwan-based Wintek has won a large touchscreen display contract for Apple’s next media player.

If Apple does ship an iPhone-like iPod, it would likely prove popular. Millions want the advanced, multitouch interface of the iPhone, but balk at moving to AT&T, dumping their 80GB iPods for 8GB iPhones, or moving from a 3G phone to EDGE data speeds.

From http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9026900

When all those silly iFanBoys lined up for days to buy a 600 dollar phone with clumsy typing and only 1/10th the capacity of a regular iPod, I shall be basking in the glory of a REAL iPod that can actually store all of my music at once, AND also have the killer touch-screen multimedia capabilities of the iPhone. And, I won’t have to dish out close to thousand dollars a year to AT&T to use it. I shall have the last laughter.

I wonder if this iPhone-without-the-phone iPod will still have WiFi and a web browser?

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