Loads of New iPods

[Hermiod]

Starting from the bottom.

* New Product Red iPod Shuffle. Still 1gb.

* New iPod Nanos. Squarish, much like the leaked photos. New Cover Flow based UI. 320x240 screen with video playback. 4gb in Silver, 8gb in loads of colours.

* Newly renamed iPod "Classic" - the original iPod. 80gb and 160gb versions. 80gb is much thinner than before. Same Cover Flow based UI. Improved battery.

* New iPod Touch. iPhone without the phone. 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, Safari web browsing, touch screen, motion sensitive etc.

* Wi-Fi iTunes Music Store. Buy music directly on to your iPod Touch or iPhone. Copies to iTunes when you dock it.

* Some sort of deal with Starbucks. An extra button pops up on your iPod Touch or iPhone when you go in to a Starbucks store which lets you see a list of the last ten tracks played in the store and purchase it. Free Wi-Fi access to the iTunes Music Store from iPod Touches, iPhones, Mac and Windows laptops.

 

[Stormrage]

Looks like I'm sticking with my iPod Nano 2G. I only want and iPod to listen to music. I don't need any extra like wi-fi. If I did I would have bought Zune.

 

[Arrqh]

Like I said in the thread in Misc... I would have preferred an iPod Touch with a HDD instead of flash memory, despite the increased size and weight. I don't watch video on my iPod often, but it's really nice to have on those long plane flights I'm on a few times a year and the iPod's screen really is too small and I'd like the widescreen... but I'm not sure if I'm willing to take the hit on memory space to do it.

It is sexy though: Pics of the iPod Touch and the new Nano and the Classic

 

[Marc]

Arrghman said:
Like I said in the thread in Misc... I would have preferred an iPod Touch with a HDD instead of flash memory, despite the increased size and weight. I don't watch video on my iPod often, but it's really nice to have on those long plane flights I'm on a few times a year and the iPod's screen really is too small and I'd like the widescreen... but I'm not sure if I'm willing to take the hit on memory space to do it.

It is sexy though: Pics of the iPod Touch and the new Nano and the Classic

Looks to me that the Touch is basically an iPhone without the GSM phone bits (and speaking of the iPhone anyone who's bought one already is gonna be majorly bummer - Apple is slashing the price big time).

Not sure why you'd prefer a hard disk over flash memory.

Hard disk adds weight and chews battery not to mention a better chance of going bung if drop the thing.

Maybe it was just my crappy Creative Zen but I found the biggest problem with the hard disk was I couldn't pause and pickup where I left off after the unit was turned off (it's not an issue when listing to 3 minute songs but on multi-hour audio book it blew chunks).

 

[Arrqh]

Marc said:
Not sure why you'd prefer a hard disk over flash memory.

Hard disk adds weight and chews battery not to mention a better chance of going bung if drop the thing.

Well it's obviously a trade off for the space. My current 30gb iPod is light enough and small enough for me with double the space. What it's missing is a nice widescreen screen... I'd be most happy if I could get the best of both worlds. I like the idea of not having to take things on and off the player and the amount on my current half-broken iPod already exceeds the space on the 16gb Touch.

 

[Alaedhros]

Arrghman said:
Like I said in the thread in Misc... I would have preferred an iPod Touch with a HDD instead of flash memory, despite the increased size and weight. I don't watch video on my iPod often, but it's really nice to have on those long plane flights I'm on a few times a year and the iPod's screen really is too small and I'd like the widescreen... but I'm not sure if I'm willing to take the hit on memory space to do it.

I know it's not the iPod, but the Creative Zen Vision W is a widescreen (4.3") hard drive-based (30 or 60 GB) player for the same price as the iPod. Creative makes pretty durable players and the screen looks great; something to consider, anyway.

 

[Pensive]

Next, the iPod will list the last 10 songs that got stuck in your head and offer to let you buy them from iTunes.


And it will make your coffee.

 

[Arrqh]

Alaedhros said:
I know it's not the iPod, but the Creative Zen Vision W is a widescreen (4.3") hard drive-based (30 or 60 GB) player for the same price as the iPod. Creative makes pretty durable players and the screen looks great; something to consider, anyway.

Yeah, I was reading about the Zen Vision W the other day... it's screen is also slightly wider then the Touch's so it's true 16:9. On the other hand... the Touch is just damn sexy!

I won't be getting anything new until the end of the year anyway, so I've got plenty of time to think!

 

[Pensive]

I'm a devoted Creative user -- same functionality as an iPood, for less $. That's a good thing

 

[TerriO]

^TEHO, Pensive. I have had nothing but crap luck with Sony tech of any sort, yet I have friends who swear by them. My luck with Creative outside the realms of sound cards for PCs has been, well, less than stellar. I'd much rather pay the $ for a product that works for me than have to replace it in less than a year, which is what happened to me the last time I bought a Creative MP3 player.

 

[Pensive]

Weird that the Creative crapped out on ya... if I had a dollar for every iPod that my friends have to send in or replace...well, I could buy an iPod

Stick with what works for you

 

[Sheep]

I was VERY intested in the Touch until I realized how much memory the two models offered--not nearly enough for someone who likes HDD-based players and large HDD sizes. Maybe next in the next round of revisions.

I have a 20GB iRiver H120 that I plan to use until it physically doesn't work anymore. No DRM infestations whatsoever on that brilliant MP3 player.

 

[Samurai8472]

hmm I might just get the new nano. Although I haven't had that much luck with nano. Lost the first one, bought one off a girl in college.

The battery only lasted 2 hours and the audio jack was loose(the left earphone was quieter than the right ear phone)

but they say third times the charm

 

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Sheep said:
I have a 20GB iRiver H120 that I plan to use until it physically doesn't work anymore. No DRM infestations whatsoever on that brilliant MP3 player.

Both Cowon and Trekstore make mp3 players that are essentially DRM free.

 

[Hermiod]

^So is an iPod if you don't use the iTunes Music Store.

 

[Sheep]

Zero Hour said:

Sheep said:
I have a 20GB iRiver H120 that I plan to use until it physically doesn't work anymore. No DRM infestations whatsoever on that brilliant MP3 player.

Both Cowon and Trekstore make mp3 players that are essentially DRM free.

I've given the Cowon A2 a long look, but decided against it since I have an, ahem..."special" PSP that serves my portable video player needs; lord knows I actually don't use the thing to play PSP games so it has to do something to earn its keep. The Cowon's ability to play a ton of video filetypes natively was mighty tempting though.

Hermiod said:
^So is an iPod if you don't use the iTunes Music Store.

I should have been more clear. In addition to the DRM'ed files, I also like being able to plug in my H120 into any modern PC (XP or newer) and have it automatically recognized as a HDD and be able to move files around with ease--no iTunes or other crappy software required.

I know you can do this with an iPod through reTune and Anapod, but those solutions seem downright clunky compared to simple copying/pasting or drag and drop.

 

[Seraphim]

as they said in the late seventies, "and the beat goes on."

 

[Holytomato]

With the iPod Touch can I read html, wordpad, notepad, or pdfs?

I don't care about memory: I read one book at a time.

I also read one page at a time. :thumbsup:

Of course I'm waiting for the plastic sheets with fiber optics in them like on the commericals. (hot woman reads newspaper)