iPod Hey Apple! Hurry up on a larger screen ipod!!

[rdowns]

Relax. Video is just a bonus on the iPod. The content deals Apple are making are what's revolutionary. Since they seem to be doing very well, a bigger screen video device (new iPod family?) will come in 2006.

These other devices may have bigger screens but where's the content?

 

[adk]

I'm fine with the current screen size. It's fine for watching TV shows, and the whole Ipod isn't too big. If it got too much bigger people would stop carrying it around as much as they do. What the Video Ipods really need is longer life. It's only 2-2.5 hours. This is because of the backlight constantly being on and the hard drive having to spin a lot more. Since batteries are tough to upgrade, why not install 100mb or so of Flash memory instead of just the 8MB buffer (or is it cache, I forget)? It seems to me that this would add to battery time.

 

[freeny]

well his point was that apple should branch off and make a video player for those dedicated to video. make it a video player first, and a music player second, but still keep the normal ipod. i think that is the smartest thing to do, and i think that they don't even need a bigger screen. they do, however need a huge batterey life improvement if they were to branch out to a video ipod, because currently a 60GB only lasts for 3 hours of video.

Thank you!

For a while there I thought I was speaking a different language.

 

[freeny]

Heres an article I just found that agrees with me from Macworld
http://www.macworld.com/2006/01/features/multimedialessons/index.php

This of course shows that I am right

 

[Bern]

My Powerbook serves as useful portable video player when I'm traveling. I can watch a full length movie or anything else comfortably.

I personally don't see the benefit to Apple to produce a portable video player. I guess they see that as one of the features and benefits of their laptops.

 

[maya]

Yeah, but they'd have to probably make a "writing space" like on Palm Pilots so you're not writing (using the Grafitti language or something) on the screen and thus scratching it up with a plastic point.

Not really, you can write on the screen and it will not scratch. As long as Apple does not get cheap on us, again.

Have you seen what other companies are doing with the Nano and iPod line, they are using a better scratch resistant coating. Apple has just gotten cheap on this regard to boost profits. Surprise.