New iPods are scheduled to be announced by Apple today and we decided to pool together for one big gigantic rumor round-up.

As usual, some of these Apple related rumors are far flung, friggin’ crazy larks of wishful geeky imagination. Others are much more realistic. Still, it’s tons of fun gathering the obscure to the well publicized rumors.

Before we jump in, let’s make one thing clear. It’s a forgone conclusion that iPod Touch will get an upgrade tomorrow, which is inevitable considering that iPod Touch and iPhones are basically one in the same with iPhone being able to make calls, have GPS, and a few other interesting things (camera) that don’t make it over to iPod Touch.

So, it’s strange to us that certain sections of the blogosphere are falling head over heals in shock that a new iPod Touch with a list of features that reads like iPhone 4g (big G being reserved here for you know…4G networks?).

Call us dorks, but we’re not going to pretend like this is some big secret. Everyone knows that whatever goes into iPhone eventually makes it to iPod Touch (except for the aforementioned exceptions).

Look, act shocked and surprised if you want to, but we won’t.

Here we go:

iPod Touch Upgrade(s): This time the rumor is Apple’s not dropping the camera and including the ability to make video-chat calls available on iPod Touch. Supposedly both front and rear facing cameras are coming along. No more Pirate Patch for the iPod Touch! We’re going to call this one confirmed. It just feels like it’s about time that Apple stopped neutering iPod Touch this way. Bring on the camera!

We’re not going to mention processor, memory updates. It’s basically iPhone 4g stuff here.

A crazy rumor says that GPS and location features will be finally included into the Touch series. This one, while totally awesome if available, kinda seems unlikely. Look, we’d like nothing more than use our iPods from everything from music, web, to navigation. Cool doesn’t begin to describe it. Location grabbing would be cool and certainly makes a camera equipped Touch a geotagger’s wet-dream, so we’ll call this a 50-50 shot right now.

Even if this one makes it, it’ll only work if Apple throws in the ability to download tons of maps (about 4GB worth) or include it on-board since you’ll be without a data connection on the road.

Finally a funked up goofball of a rumor actually says Touch will include a built-in pico projector made by none other than MicroVision.

To which we say, Really??!! Can I get magically unlimited bacon and ham with that too????

We don’t see this happening. Apple’s always been sensitive about battery life and throwing one of these on there would suck battery power down to less than 2 hours with the projector on. I’d imagine a ton of unhappy iPod users, especially if they had to piggy-back a brick of a power cell to operate it.

iPod Classic: The rumor here is that the classic wheeled iPod is dead, which would be a darned shame. Nothing in Apple’s line-up has the storage capacity as iPod Classic and there are still lots of buyers for a cheaper, high-capacity iPod that can display photos, pictures, etc, albeit on a smaller screen.

Instead, we’re expecting that Apple punch up the storage capacity on Apple’s bread-n-butter.

iPod Nano: Gets even smaller. From published blurry cams, we’re seeing a shorter Nano. But really, if you’re looking for a Nano, do you really care what it looks like?

Pricing across the board is expected to remain if not see a slight drop if storage capacity goes up for every device (which is expected).

Check back later today, as we update with verified iPod goodness.

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