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iPod touch New iPod Touch release in September
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I'm thinking the same thing...along with a mic and a better battery life
I think the GPS module still has some R&D to be done, so in can be an actual dedicated GPS, and not a location-aware device(like in the iPhone 3G & 3Gs)...The prices... I assume will be bumped up a little bit.
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Which is why I won't be the least bit suprised if September comes and goes and the touch we all know and love stays exactly the same.
GPS is useful
GPS is useful even without 3G - for example, you could geotag photos automatically. I also wonder how difficult it is to do route-planning with Google maps -- depending on what's contained on the Map data, wouldn't it be possible to enter a destination at home, get the directions, and the gps can then do the rest of the work of telling you where to go and all that? It's not like the iPhone pulls data consistently with its 3G connection while you are driving around along a planned route, right? (or is it?)
GPS is useful even without 3G - for example, you could geotag photos automatically. I also wonder how difficult it is to do route-planning with Google maps -- depending on what's contained on the Map data, wouldn't it be possible to enter a destination at home, get the directions, and the gps can then do the rest of the work of telling you where to go and all that? It's not like the iPhone pulls data consistently with its 3G connection while you are driving around along a planned route, right? (or is it?)
I would be surprised and very disappointed because I sold my first gen so I could buy the 3rd gen.
Now there's something I haven't thought of, it would make sense (to work with iPhoto) if they did somehow make the camera geotag photos.
Apple wants more out of the GPS than to just GeoTag...and so do I
Adding a camera & a videocamera is a huge (and easy) market opportunity for Apple and 3-party developers, so I highly doubt the Touch will stay the same...
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I think it will have the camera and the mic, I doubt the GPS.. I think this year will be all about the camera and major speed and space upgrades.
I'm very interested to see what comes for the Touch in the future. I haven't really been using the phone and data features of my iPhone enough to justify the ongoing cost, but still have almost a year of contract left and would probably lose out by trying to end it early, just because that's how the phone companies roll.
'Tradition' has seen the Touch come with a faster processor than the current iPhone, and I would expect that to be the same again. I don't know about doubling capacity again just yet, but I am expecting a camera and better mic & speaker. It will probably be next year's update that gets me more interested.
'Tradition' has seen the Touch come with a faster processor than the current iPhone, and I would expect that to be the same again. I don't know about doubling capacity again just yet, but I am expecting a camera and better mic & speaker. It will probably be next year's update that gets me more interested
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Wouldn't that give the opportunity for people to hack it and turn it into a cheap(er) iphone?
The whole iPhone thing is why I won't be suprised if the touch stays the same through September.
Yeah, I think that the iPods will get cameras to get people to keep buying them (conference call did say they are finally starting to wane in sales) but I don't see GPS, 3G, or anything that might further encroach on iPhone territory. Only when they add substantially more hardware to the iPhone will the iPod touch get GPS, etcetera so that there's always the up-sell. The faster processor that's in the 3Gs is a given I'd think.
If it does get a mic, it'll be on the headphones, not built into the unit. I would prefer if it went to an aluminum back and bucked the SS trend that all iPods have had.
I wouldn't be surprised if the introduction of the 64GB touch kills the classic, either.
If it does get a mic, it'll be on the headphones, not built into the unit. I would prefer if it went to an aluminum back and bucked the SS trend that all iPods have had.
I wouldn't be surprised if the introduction of the 64GB touch kills the classic, either.
One thing most people have overlooked is a redesign of the Touch. Will Apple do the impossible and make it even thinner, and more streamlined? Or perhaps release different colour. Certainly, a faster processor would be nice, as would a camera and a mic. I think if Apple did release a 64GB model it would kill off the Classic. I'm planning on selling my 80GB Classic for the new Touch, mainly because I don't use half of its HUGE capacity, and because the Touch does everything the Classic does, then adds Apps.