Should I get an ipod touch now or wait for the 4th gen's to come out?

MacRumours recommends that you only purchase a new Touch if you really need it. It's running near the end of its product cycle. This also means that you'll be seeing lower prices on relevant refurbs, both from Apple and third party.

The price will likely remain around current levels, which is good. But no one knows about concrete differences in speed and performance. If you wait a while, you could have your pick of 3 and 4g Touches, which puts you in the driver's seat.

The only thing that would make me upgrade would be increased video resolution, which may well appear in the 4g.

Im having the same question, but ive never owned an iPod of any kind, and i need a new mp3 player, so I may not wait.

Anyway, i wanted to say, not sure if your aware, you can get a new 3G, 8GB shipped to your front door for $179 from amazon. So i dont think that deal from the apple store is all that good.

I think that it all varies between of what kind of a urgency you really would like to buy an iPod touch. Its all about of the needs of wanting the iPod touch vs I just want it for music player. But if you can't wait for a new iPod touch to hit the apple shelves, and would like to have the music capabilities+Internet. I will totally say go for that, buy the iPod touch, but make sure you purchase the higher memory models like 32/64GB because with the new Iphone 4.0 it would take full advantage of it's features(like multitasking).

If I were you, I could wait for a matter of four months for the September wait of the new iPod line in the end of the year season. Because I will guarantee that apple will add new features that probably will blow out of the water the older models. Apple seems to be playing catching up to other cellphone makers who are adding brighter/higher resolution screens like apple did with the ipad. So we will probably be seeing higher resolution screens on the iPod touch. There is a lot of Internet talk, that is mentioning that the newer models is gonna come with apple built-in house A4 chips like the ipad with 1ghz of power. We are hoping that we will get at least 512MB of RAM, hopefully a built in microphone.

So does apple release a new model every year? like its practically written in stone?

I decided to pull the trigger on the 5th gen. Nano 16GB. Its really all I need anyway, and then some, and if I still have the bug to buy the touch when the 4th gen comes out, i will reevaluate at that time. The more i think about it, the iPod touch is practically useless for home use, and unless your in a hot spot, useless on the road as well. Im not really into games and movies enough to justify its purchase, my laptoop still does those things. the real way to go is the iPhone with the data plan, which can make full use of all the portability of the internet anywhere, and makes a much greater value.