For an easy reference, I’ll just link to ifixit.com‘s dissections of the ipod classic and nano 3rd gen. Those chips look very similar to the ones we saw in the nano 2nd gen and I dare to bet that the firmware files of these new ipods are as encrypted as the 2nd nano was… 🙁
As a side-note, I noticed the 3rd gen nano at least still features 32MB RAM.
Clearly the major electronic device companies are starting to really like full-screen touch displays for their phones and media devices, and we see them coming from all directions now:
Apple’s iPhone, and its sibling the recently announced ipod Touch, the Nokia concept phone, LD prada, HTC touch, Creative Zen “touch” and I bet we’ll soon see more from other manufacturers following. Like Samsung, Philips, Sony Ericsson and the likes…
We’ve seen devices like Arhos 604 and the Acer MP-500 before but I think what we see now with Apple’s iphone lead is the final step of the ladder and all the prime companies follow suit.
During August 2007, 71164 Rockbox zip files were downloaded from build.rockbox.org. All existing 25 different packages were downloaded and the download counters were distributed like this:
(Model, number of downloads, share of the total number of downloads)
Do note that #4 on the list is the bigger sized version of the #1 on the list, so taken all ipod video together they account for 35.8% of all downloads!
Also, consider that this list does not include any downloads done from the download.rockbox.org servers (that host the daily and archived builds), nor do we keep track of any svn update traffic etc.
Portalplayer targets are #1 to #4, more than 60% of the downloads…
The downloads split on main architecture: