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That red and black one looks nice. But it's a tad expensive. There's a 20gb portable multimedia player thingy with a massive screen that records off the telly for 300 quid.
I like what you did with your name there, very clever
It was 3g before right?
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Posted: 2004-10-27 22:33:00
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if they make it with bt and make a add on for digital camers to be able to send pics to the ipod then all i need it a 128mb memory stick and send it over to the ipod
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Posted: 2004-10-28 23:50:35
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Theres a Belkin card reader that can be attached to the ipod to transfer pics.
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Posted: 2004-10-28 23:58:37
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Quote:If it doesn't take long for each photo to load on the pod, it'd be great. One of the problems with my iRiver H340 is that pics take ages to load!
I just watched the video stream of the launch of the iPod photo and photo loading is instantaneous. They've been quite clever to get the interface to be as quick as possible.
You have the option of storing iPod resolution, TV resolution and full resolution images on the iPod. The iPod uses very small thumbnails and iPod screen-res versions of the images to display on its own screen as fast as possible. Then if you're viewing on a TV or projector (it has both composite video and S-Video outputs), the iPod uses the higher resolution versions. If you want to transfer an image to another computer it uses the original highest resolution photo.
In the demo slideshows from the launch they have a soft-edged right to left wipe effect. I'm not sure whether there are other wipe effects too.
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Posted: 2004-10-29 10:53:39
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There's an interesting opinion on why Apple still haven't released a video iPod
here:
I saw some interesting theories why there's no video iPod. I won't get into the argument about whether consumers want mobile video. There's clearly a segment that does and I won't debate that side of the argument. The argument I read today goes since Steve Jobs owns Pixar he doesn't want illegal movies ripped. Perhaps. But that's not the reason.
It's because unlike music, it's illegal to rip a DVD to your hard drive, Pixar or otherwise. Simple.
No same company wants to get into that legal issue with the studios and provide those tools. Not Apple. Not Microsoft. In fact, the reason MediaCenter Extenders won't stream DVDs from your MCE to the device is that in order to do so they need to be decrypted to send the stream. That's illegal too. Should it be? Of course not, but at the moment, it is. The only other source of legal video content is recorded TV and Apple at the moment has no interest in playing in that market. Should they? Perhaps, but that's another story. Now there's always personal created video but the market for that is tiny... really, really tiny. Call me and I'll show you how small those numbers are. There's a reason we call them consumers, as they consume content and not create it. There's no market for the video iPod for Apple's customers at the moment. No evil schemes. No Machiavellian thoughts behind it. It's just not a good move for Apple without the sources of content they need. They will be there and we will get a video iPod one day. Just not this one.
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Posted: 2004-10-29 10:57:49
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I have an ipod since a few days and it really drains the battery a lot. So imagine what a colour screen would do. No ipod for me anymore
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Posted: 2004-10-29 11:41:03
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I presume there would be a power saving mode much like on colour screen phones
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Posted: 2004-10-29 12:12:00
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If you read the specifications the new iPod photo has a 15 hour battery life for listening to music.
Also, if you've only had your iPod a few days, the charging cycle will still not have reached its optimum. If its a 4th generation iPod you should get 12 hours battery life at normal use.
Obviously if you leave the back-light on all the time and frequently skip tracks (causing the hard disk to spin-up) your battery life will be less than ideal.
Read the following for more tips about maximising battery life:
http://www.apple.com/batteries/
http://www.apple.com/batteries/ipods.html
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Posted: 2004-10-29 12:13:02
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Yes i know all that. I have 3th generation. The backlight is off, but i do skip tracks. The amount of hours apple says the ipodbattery should last never makes it. Especially not when i make full use of my ipod
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Posted: 2004-10-29 12:51:57
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Like any other manufacturer, Apple quotes the best possible time you can expect from the battery. Rarely does any battery last its best possible time.
However, if you were to test it the same was as Apple does, i.e. turnoff backlight, press play and leave it to play continuously through the tracks without skipping, you probably will get the advertised battery life.
Did you buy secondhand? If you've only had it a few days I would've expected you to have a 4th generation iPod (with the grey clickwheel)...
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Posted: 2004-10-29 12:57:31
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