New 160GB iPod Etc. (1 Viewer)

[simp]

Live blogcast...
http://live.gizmodo.com/

nano now bigger, with video; 4gb & 8gb

ipod 'classic' in 80gb or 160gb

and new ipod touch - an iphone without the phone bit...

 

[pete]

oh i like that touchscreen ipod.... wifi too.

hmm

The iPod Touch will be arriving in 8GB and 16GB flavors and will be priced at $299 and $399, respectively, when they ship "worldwide in a few weeks."

 

[Bladez]

Live blogcast...
http://live.gizmodo.com/

nano now bigger, with video; 4gb & 8gb

ipod 'classic' in 80gb or 160gb

and new ipod touch - an iphone without the phone bit...

Does anyone really need 160GB of portable storage?

 

[nofriendo]

ipod touch only 8gb & 16gb ! was expecting a bit more than that. Yeah its nice but i am fucked if i am spending that much on that little storage. give it one more iteration and will pick one up with more storage

 

[flashback]

[SIZE=-1]640K is more memory than anyone will ever need.

Nah, I mean people are loading movies and things onto the iPod, that pisses away space fast.
And you can use it as a back up device...



edit... I dont really see the point of the touchscreen iPod though. The original wheel / button UI was fine for what the iPod was designed to do I thought.
What advantage does a touch screen give you?

Wifi is nice though I suppose.
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[Bladez]

[SIZE=-1]640K is more memory than anyone will ever need.

Nah, I mean people are loading movies and things onto the iPod, that pisses away space fast.
And you can use it as a back up device...



edit... I dont really see the point of the touchscreen iPod though. The original wheel / button UI was fine for what the iPod was designed to do I thought.
What advantage does a touch screen give you?

Wifi is nice though I suppose.
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Have they become more robust? Mine died after about 15 months of use (convenient, given the 1 year warranty). The disk drive kept whirring up and whirring down a few times and then displaying the unhappy iPod folder on the screen. I've heard of other people with the same problem. Maybe it was just the particular generation of iPod I got. This was about 3 years ago now.

 

[flashback]

Have they become more robust? Mine died after about 15 months of use (convenient, given the 1 year warranty). The disk drive kept whirring up and whirring down a few times and then displaying the unhappy iPod folder on the screen. I've heard of other people with the same problem. Maybe it was just the particular generation of iPod I got. This was about 3 years ago now.

Probably they are less robust... I would say.

Em, yeah, I mean my iPod is pretty old at this point, and has taken a beating to the extent that the screen is cracked and i can only play the ipod on random now. But, the hard drive still works grand.

It is just luck I think with drives.

Apparently google have this toughing thing they do, they put the new machines to work for a few months in a non critical farm and if they survive that they get promoted to the production farm. The logic is that if they survive a month of abuse they are semi decent.

 

[Bladez]

Yeah. I heard that about Google. I would doubt Apple have such good testing though. Like you say, its probably down to luck when your drive will fail.

I can imagine they do some sort of estimation of the average life-span of an iPod as a function of the cost of the materials, the cost of assembly etc. and then decide how robust they need to make it to maximise their income.

 

[hugh]

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Wifi is nice though I suppose.
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What can you do with the wifi? Transfer stuff to and from your computer without cables? That would be nice ....

 

[pete]

[SIZE=-1]What advantage does a touch screen give you?

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the full keyboard is nice

 

[pete]

What can you do with the wifi? Transfer stuff to and from your computer without cables? That would be nice ....

internets & youtubes

 

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the full keyboard is nice

right... but, like... why do you want a keyboard on an iPod?

not being smart or anything. Just, I suppose I use my ipod for music, and the odd file transfer.
I am just trying to imagine what you need to type? I suppose if you are using the internets you need to type addresses and things.

Hmm. It sort of turns into a computer at that point.

What would be cool if you could pull up an ssh session on the ipod... and admin machines and the like.

when I say cool, obviously i mean unbelievably sad.

 

[Goodbye]

The wifi is drooooool.
Slap textedit onto this and i'd deffo get one.

 

[Anthony]

deadly. iphone without the phone!

 

[shower another shower]

deadly. iphone without the phone!

Gaffa tape your Nokia to it and yer laughin.

 

[Goodbye]

http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/guidedtour/

That starfucks thing is sickening

 

[nofriendo]

http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/guidedtour/

That starfucks thing is sickening

the whole thing is a bit sickening. there is no reason why they couldnt release a much higher capacity ipod touch. It is more a business decision, they can see keep the ipod customer base and with the shity capacity the can get people to upgrade in about 6 months. tis the apple way

 

[Anthony]

http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/guidedtour/

That starfucks thing is sickening

why?
it's just starbucks offering free wifi really.
I think it's very Total Recall.

 

[Anthony]

The new nanos look gammy, and the colours on the shuffles are crap.

 

[Goodbye]

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=5392