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Apple iPod Update Increases Battery Life

Posted by pudge on from the mmmm-battery dept.

hhoor writes "Apple has released iPod Software 1.2.6. According to Apple, 'After updating the iPod, customers can expect at least 10 days of standby battery life on a full charge.' So maybe now it's really time to buy one."

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  1. Holy Crap by Oculus+Habent · · Score: 4, Insightful

    5.2 MB! As if that's not crazy, there's a Gzip file that expands to 51 MB inside that. Most of it seems to be absorbed in different languages. That's 8-12 songs worth of space, though.

    Also, couldn't this have been available via Software Update? I don't spend much time at the iPod homepage. I suppose not everyone needs it, but couldn't there be some way of telling if you ever had an iPod connected? Wishful thinking, maybe.

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  2. Re:Odd statement hhoor by galaxy300 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Newer iPods use touchpads instead of mechanical wheels.

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  3. Re:What happened to the missing versions by tuxedobob · · Score: 3, Insightful

    My guess would be that they were internal releases which were not made public. It happens sometimes.

  4. anyone else have poor linux compat with the iPod? by TheGratefulNet · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I bought an ipod with the sole intention of trying to get it to work with linux. I run the latest stable 2.4.20 kernel and my firewire stuff works with all my drives (as best as FW -can- with linux, but that's another story).

    I can see the files when I mount the ipod and copy them across ok - I think. but when I play them, the file sizes are wrong and so a song that says its 30minutes (unlikely) cuts off after a few minutes and some songs that are long cut off too short! weird.

    so I returned it. it appears that for me, at least, ipod/linux is not nearly ready for prime time. too bad.

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  5. Re:Why does the iPod have no off switch? by exp(pi*sqrt(163)) · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Well blow me down with a feather - I didn't know about that!

    But as we all know it doesn't really switch off the iPod. It's still consuming battery power at a prodigious rate. I want a real off button so I can leave my iPod off for a month and expect it to work the moment I switch it on. Why can't it just dump out its state to disk and shut down for real?

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