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Rumors of Next Generation of Ipods
xyankee writes "Apple is on the verge of releasing a 60GB iPod that will not only hold a ton of music, but also sport photo-viewing capabilities! Think Secret is reporting that the new iPod will also have a 2-inch high-resolution LCD display, video-out, and enhancements to iPhoto for synchronizing photos. The best part is it'll be just 2mm thicker than regular iPods. Does this mean that iPhoto for Windows might not be far behind? Also, as a note to all the rumor pundits, Think Secret nailed the iMac G5 specs a month before its announcement, so I'm inclined to believe them with this bit as well."
didn't the iPod make it because it played MP3s, and played them well?
Think Secret also spent a lot fo time showing the new Apple PDA along with supposed screen shots and that never surfaced...
As digital cameras keep producing larger and larger file sizes, it's getting to be quite worthwhile to have someplace to dump the contents of your flash cards.
If this new i-pod has a CF reader built in, I wouldn't need to carry half a dozen 512MB flash cards, I could just fill one card, dump it into the i-pod and keep on shooting.
Devices like this do exist already, but none of them are really easy to use and carry.
I'm guessing most people buy an iPod so they don't have to listen to the crap that's on FM radio today.
Yeah, I hate how their portable digital music player only plays DRM music.
Oh, wait, that is not Apple, that is Sony.
Well, I still hate how their media player software really only wants to rip in a DRM/proprietary format.
Oh, wait, that is not Apple, that is Microsoft.
What is Apple doing again?
Your argument is analogous to not buying a certain car because it comes with a tow-hook standard, and saying "I don't buy into this towing nonsense. I am not buying anything with a tow-hook." The damn car still works fine if you completely ignore the presence of the tow-hook!
News flash: You do not have to use DRM at all on the iPod.
And I'm not talking about voice notes, either, but CD-quality, stereo, uncompressed audio, from a mic or line input. The iPod chipset is supposed to support this already, so all it would need is a software update. Apparently...
I do concert recordings (with permission), and that would make things so much easier. [fx: sigh]
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I suspect it'll just be a larger 4G iPod, with the ability to show Album Art stored in the ID3 tags.
;)
As others have pointed out, most digital cameras have a larger screen, so the only advantage here is additional storage... Nice as it is to have all your photos with you, and of course it'll have TV-out, I can't see it being used to really show them off with the same size screen as the current iPod.
Who knows, maybe there'll be the long-fabled firmware release that makes the current 4G iPods colour-screened
Mark
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1) Just out of curiosity, have you needed your battery replaced? I've got the original scrolly wheel 10gb, I use it for 4-5 hours daily 7 days/week, I'm still going fine with the original battery. If and when it ever dies I'll get a new battery and replace it myself. Anyone who actually enjoys posting at Slashdot should be more than techy enough to replace an ipod battery.
2) One of my DVD players doesn't play back divx or ogm or WMV. Sure, it plays back normal DVDs fine - which is was advertised to do, but I'm bitter that this one doesn't so I'm going to bitch and moan and complain about a company (let's say Phillips) not keeping an antiquated *limited by hardware* product up to spec with what other modern DVD players can do.
Please.
3) Why are you abusing the headphones and putting them someplace where you know they would break? If you know that the cold is breaking them, why are you going right back to putting them in the cold?
Sorry, but you're clearly a dumbass with a mentality of you being owed everything by anything that displeases you.