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Could be for a solid-state sextant. You'd hold the iPod touch face-down in the sun (and at night for navigating with the stars) and it would calculate your position.
This could be a huge feature for the non-GPS yachting crowd.
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Could be for a solid-state sextant. You'd hold the iPod touch face-down in the sun (and at night for navigating with the stars) and it would calculate your position.
This could be a huge feature for the non-GPS yachting crowd.
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There is some truth to this. I have around 200 music CDs ripped to 256k VBR, and another 43 video game soundtracks in 200-300k VBR and my library is only 26GB. My six year old 30GB iPod can hold my entire library. What could fill a 120GB iPod classic?The iPod Classic is for pirates
Or people who just have a @#$%-load of CDs...
Or people who spent $60,000 on iTunes songs.
You are correct, it will be gone tomorrow. Sales are hot, and they can't be stocked! The tablet has pretty much sold out for the forseable future. Remind me how the Nexus will not have bitten into Apples sales a few months from now... Everyone on MR was saying how the Galaxy S3 wouldn't go anywhere, and how it wouldn't hurt the iPhone 4S, but already the S3 has sold over 10 million copies in just a few months. If Google markets the Nexus well, it will kill the iPod touch. Why would anyone buy the iPod when the Nexus 7 tablet has a larger and better display, a faster CPU and GPU, a better battery, a GPS, and is cheaper when the $25 Google play credit is factored in?
Out of stock means absolutely nothing until we know how many units have been shipped to consumers.
(Apple equivalent of) FLAC.
Space goes in a hurry...I've long since outgrown my 160GB...
My entire library, which is ripped in FLAC so that my CD's never have to be used and stay un-scratched, is 1.4 Terabytes and growing.
I have even ripped vinyl LP's just to have on my Linux QNAP server which is 6TB RAID5 and also holds DVD's. Plus I backup my entire server separately.
Hence, my desire to have a bigger Classic so I could compress my library down to a level acceptable to me, so that I can take it with me to client demos, my car, trips, other friends homes or anywhere I wish.
I am in the Audiophile business, hand build tube amps and speakers, and it helps to have the highest resolution files to play for prospective clients.
I do have the option of opening my server up with a secure port so I can access it from the web and just use my iPhone to stream. I just haven't wanted to deal with the security just yet.
I may just buy an older 5th generation Classic so I can change out the hard drive myself, but I figured they would eventually update the Classic.
Oh Well
If they don't make one, I'll live.
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Really, REALLY hoping they finally bump the Touch up to 128gb. My iPod Touch is about 3 years old now and it's been at capacity for the last year or more. And I don't use lossless. Most of my music is at 192k or above... I just have a lot of it (purchased), plus apps and more. I've had to pretty much stop buying apps for awhile (which I'm sure isn't what Apple wants) since it's such a pain to figure out what to remove each time.
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It's also for autistic kids. I really don't want LD bills if my son calls Borneo.
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I am in the Audiophile business, hand build tube amps and speakers, and it helps to have the highest resolution files to play for prospective clients
I may just buy an older 5th generation Classic so I can change out the hard drive myself, but I figured they would eventually update the Classic.
Oh Well
Why not just by an 11" MBA and avoid all the hassle?
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Let's see yours. Oh, you don't have one? Then ****.
I heard that before with the HP TouchPAD (and other "iPad alternatives"). HP claimed huge sales, but all it was were units sitting at the stores' shelves, which later were returned back to HP after the failure was acknowledged.
I know people who bought other tablets and later regret it and bought an iPad.
I was at the Miami Airport on Sunday and there were a lot of people waiting in the Arrivals terminal, all the people I could spot carrying a mobile device were carrying either an iPhone or an iPad. And it was a lot of people!
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It couldn't have been said any better than that!
I'm 22 and love my iPod touch. It is like a computer that fits in my pocket. Slimmer than the iPhone, I barely feel it in my pocket. iPod touch and way cheaper phone is the way for me, thanks.
Completely agree. That is the setup I am using now and have been since the ipod touch 3rd gen came out.
More than just a rumor
I hope this becomes more than just a rumor. And, when it does, I'll be saying something like: It's about freakin time. Hopefully, it will be sporting an updated front and rear facing camera, as the current one is junk. The camera on my ancient LG cell phone takes better pics than my 4G iPod Touch. That's just sad. Though, the iPod Touch does take better video...only because my cellphone doesn't even have that capability.
This update has been quite a long time coming. Again, crossing my fingers hoping this isn't just a rumor.
I hope this becomes more than just a rumor. And, when it does, I'll be saying something like: It's about freakin time.
Hopefully, it will be sporting an updated front and rear facing camera, as the current one is junk. The camera on my ancient LG cell phone takes better pics than my 4G iPod Touch. That's just sad. Though, the iPod Touch does take better video...only because my cellphone doesn't even have that capability.This update has been quite a long time coming. Again, crossing my fingers hoping this isn't just a rumor.
I love the elitists that think that the iPod Touch is a kids toy and the iPhone is a man's toy. As if the devices are some how radically different from one another.
Outside of phone functions and phone feature dependent apps there isn't much if a difference between the two, so the idea that the iPod Touch is a kids toy and the iPhone is for adults is completely unfounded.
Furthermore, many of us already have a cell phone that suites us just fine.
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On to the topic, yeah I think its not just a option to add the A5 at this point but necessary because the A4 is getting pretty outdated and is eventually going to limit developers of what they can develop to keep compatibility; its either support the latest or support the most.
memory upgrade needs to happen too, 256MB just doesn't cut it. I don't care how many people tell me that you don't need to close apps; if you don't clear apps for a long period of time with the iPod Touch then it starts to lag heavily.
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Oh, I thought it was 240GB and just checked to find that it's 160GB. I have a lot of music from CDs, and my whole library is only 38GB.
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I may just buy an older 5th generation Classic so I can change out the hard drive myself, but I figured they would eventually update the Classic.
Oh Well
Wait, can you get a SATA drive into, or more like "taped to", an iPod? I'd like to see a 2TB iPod just for the heck of it.
1.8" drive replacement is not that rare of a thing to see. 320 GB drives are circa 2010 the last time I checked.
"With 2TB of storage, your iPod can hold up to 500,000 songs, 2,500 hours of video, or 312,500 photos.** Thats more than enough room for a days or a lifetimes worth of entertainment."
Expect it makes sense for the iPad to have a cellular version.
For an iPod touch...not so much.