The announcement dates back to just one week ago and it has already sparked the usual trepidation around the web about what the next shiny little device from Apple could be.

From the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco on September 1, Steve Jobs will reveal the Apple’s news, music-themed this time of the year: it will probably be a product to be launched in the coming weeks, but about which we don’t have many clues yet.

The most reliable voices report about a complete redesign of the iPod lines that could probably inherit the dual cameras and Retina display from the new iPhone 4, and a New Service That Could let users listen to streaming music over the Internet without downloading songs directly to their own computer. Credible speculation, if you look back at December 2009 when Apple acquired LaLa, a streaming digital music service – currently suspended – which allowed the users, among other interesting features, to purchase streaming-only Web albums.

Some rumors report that Jobs could also introduce a new iPad model, with a smaller screen size of 7 inches versus the actual 9,7 inches, Retina display equipped and priced significantly lower than the $ 499 needed for the current basic model of the tablet.

Probably, however, despite many who want a smaller model of the Apple tablet, that’s easier to carry and less bulky than the currently available version, we won’t see anything like that before next year anyway, because the introduction of a different product concept would be too close to the launch of the original iPad of just a few months ago.

Finally, we expect the announcement of the possible relaunch of the not-so-lucky Apple TV with its brand new name “iTV” which would then benefit from on-demand movies, television series and programs through a special decoder.


We’ll see then. Any expectation on your side?