Newsweek "Leaks" New iPod Design with its 7/26 Issue Cover Photo

Reminiscent of Time Magazine's cover story which "leaked" the new flat panel iMac's design, Newsweek has done it with the new iPod design. It's shown on Newsweek's July 26th cover posted to its web site. The cover highlight's Steven Levy's story iPod Nation and depicts Apple's CEO Steve Jobs holding an iPod with no buttons and a control wheel similar to that of the iPod Mini. The control wheel appears to be a different color than the white iPod.

[Update] Here is the Newsweek article on the new iPod to be introduced this week. In addition to the previously mentioned iPod Mini click wheel instead of 4 buttons and a control wheel, the new iPod is 1mm slimmer, the battery lasts 12 hours instead of 8 through improved battery management, the software menus are more efficient and the cost is reduced for the same capacity, i.e. $299 for 20-GB and $399 for 40-GB models. There is no 15-GB model and no larger one, at least not right now.