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60 GB Color Screen Photo-Capable iPod?

~Shard~ said:
I'm sure when they say heavier and larger it's a relative term - just like the current 40 GB iPod is technically "larger" and "heavier" than the 20 GB, even though it's in actuality only .1 inches thicker and .6 ounces heavier. ;)
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And yet it's definitely noticable when you're comparing them physically.
 
Sir_Giggles said:
Hmmm.. for just slightly double the price I could get one with a powerful 1 GHz processor, a massive 12" color LCD screen, 5 hours of battery life, plus photo-editing and video-editing software. The price also includes the ability to transfer my photos and music to CD for archiving. Plus it has an integrated DVD player and I can surf the web and check my email.. did I mention all this for JUST DOUBLE THE PRICE.
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Should be fun walking around on the streets listening to music from that things. Would you try to fit it in your pocket to or just have a really big belt clip?
 
Adding versatility to innovation.

Making the best even better. Ok, enough cliches. Leave to Apple to bring us into the digital world in a manner that is both functional and stylish.


I have to wonder though, what the hell has M$ been up to lately? Have they lost all direction or what?
 
So if the iPod is about the music, since this one is about more than the music, could this carry the title of something more than "iPod". Especially since it is in it's own division of Apple, I would not be surprised to see some other products added to the line besides the "iPod."

-superdrive
 
I'll hold judgement till more reports are released. What would be nice, if something like this does come along, would be the ability to import photos directly from a digital camera, so the pod could act as a viewer and a storage bank for photos until you're back at your computer. I for one always seem to fill up my memory card faster than I realise and would make it truly useful rather than a nice gimmick.
 
i dont think this is going to happen at all. the ipod is for music.. maybe this'll be the iVid or something.. now if theyd just lower the price...
 
While I am skeptical of battery life, I think this is a great idea if true. I agree with others than looking at small pictures on the screen is hardly the best way to show off photo's, but hooking the iPod up the TV screen at family and friends houses is quite cool. However I think the biggest plus is an up to date backup of your Photo's 'cos once they are gone you can never recreate them. I know that each time you add photo's to your collection you should back them up, but in reality how many actually do this each time? I confess I normally only back up mine once every couple of months, or after a particularly important occasion.

Finally as far as Windows users are concerned we now have an additional reason for them to switch to the Mac. Yes you can manually add your photo's using a PC, buy if you had a Mac it would automatically sync.

I want one.
 
Perfect for movienights

This is perfect for movienights with my friends, instead of having to bring 10-15 DVDs with me to choose from, I'd just bring one iPod with my DVDs ripped onto it. The 2" screen would be more then enough to show small previews to my friends when we're arguing about wich one too look at.

Unfortunately it's going to be too expensive for me, but hey that's what dreams are for. :D
 
Heck yeah

I have been waiting for the 60GB and the extras make it all better! I just passed 56GB of tunes and I listen to every one of them every day (grin). No seriously... I will get it the day it is announced!


I'm happy :D :D :D :D :D
 
OLED?

Any chance the screen will be OLED instead of LCD? I've seen a couple of cameras with OLED screens and they look pretty nice. OLEDs use less power too. . .
 
Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought driving an external display such as a TV required a LOT of power. I think viewing pictures on the iPod would be a nice feature but being able to view them on an external display would be awesome.

I think a color screen on the iPod would be awesome if they could bring some of the Mac UI over. However, I can't see them doing this just on the top model. It seems like they would have to have two versions of everything to do this. Also, PC compatibility would require something like iPhoto I think and it would be stupid IMHO to give away too much software that some people might switch to get.
 
Object-X said:
I have often thought that the iPod would eventualy include iPhoto integration, but what about Windows users? Will this mean the porting of the iLife apps to Windows? How can they add a feature like this an exclude the majority of iPod users? If they want to sell them then they will have to offer Windows support. And of course if they port iLife why not everything else? They will make a killing on the software sales alone.
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you got a point right there!!! :D
 
OLED a possibility

rikers_mailbox said:
Any chance the screen will be OLED instead of LCD? I've seen a couple of cameras with OLED screens and they look pretty nice. OLEDs use less power too. . .
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This is just speculation, but Kodak owns most of the patents to OLED technology...and who do you get when you click on "order prints" in iphoto?

You guessed it...Kodak.

Maybe there is some sort of other relationship there?
 
switcherama

Object-X said:
I have often thought that the iPod would eventualy include iPhoto integration, but what about Windows users? Will this mean the porting of the iLife apps to Windows? How can they add a feature like this an exclude the majority of iPod users? If they want to sell them then they will have to offer Windows support. And of course if they port iLife why not everything else? They will make a killing on the software sales alone.
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They could easily ship the 60gb iPod without porting iPhoto to Windows. Scads of Windows users will buy it just for the larger hard drive. When they find out they can do more with it if they get a Mac, then... SOME of them will get a Mac the next time they're on the market for a new computer.
 
~Shard~ said:
Perhaps Apple's efforts to increase battery life in the 4G iPods will be all for not now with a color screen sucking all that extra juice up.
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I don't have a link but I do remember Toshiba saying that these drives use a lot less power... so that might even the powerdrain from the display out.

I also heard them say that they'd be small than the current 40GB drives... so why exactly would the thing be bigger?
 
This is sooo funny. Again you have all these people naysaying. Just like they did with the first iPod and just like they did with the iPod mini. I mean seriously, Apple has had a lot of success lately with their product decisions and IF they release it, people will buy it. And all those naysayers will be wrong. As always. :D
Note: I am not trying to make it seem like Apple is the most ingenious company out there and cannot make mistakes but you cannot quite ignore their success with their product ideas lately.
 
kilpajr said:
Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought driving an external display such as a TV required a LOT of power. I think viewing pictures on the iPod would be a nice feature but being able to view them on an external display would be awesome.
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An A/V out does not require a lot of power at all. TVs have their own power. Headphones take about the same amount of power.
 
macidiot said:
It'd be nice to be able to display album artwork for the song that is playing...
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Definitely, as you get into the thousands of songs, it can be hard to remember what came from what; the album art is a good prompt.

Having friends gather round a color screen to view photos is a good way of showing off the device to more potential iPod buyers without actually, er, showing off.

And the color screen would make the note reading/calendar/address book functionality more usable (just need a 3rd party to make a small detachable keyboard).
 
No video capabilities....phew! :D

I just bought a 4G 20gig and I would be kicking myself into tomorrow if this new ipod had video capabilities...so again....phew! :D

I'm not too excited about lugging around all my digital photos around with me, granted it could be useful in some circumstances, but for me personally it's no big deal.

I would think that video is the next step though, or will Apple stop here?
 
I think this is a small step to video on the iPod. Not that I would want to watch movies on a 2 inch screen but on my home theater system with something like AirTunes video style.
 
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