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WiFi iPods in Second Half of 2007?

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DigiTimes claims that Apple plans on launching with Wi-Fi capabilities in the "second half of 2007"

Universal Scientific Industrial (USI) will produce the Wi-Fi modules and Foxconn will perform as the OEM system assembler, according to Taiwan portable music player component makers.

USI will begin shipments later in April, while Foxconn may do so in the third quarter, the sources pointed out.
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The possibility of wireless iPods have been discussed for years, but have not yielded any shipping products. Previous reports expected Apple to introduce some form of Wireless iPod to compete with Microsoft's Zune player which does bundle Wifi connectivity.
 
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I dont think so. What would one need WiFi on an ipod?? Maybe to purchase music directly from itunes but I personally think its too much hussle. Its far enough to have this ability on your computer. You sync and charge ipod anyway.
Only posibility would be sharing music between iPods but that would probably be another pointless feature like on Zune. You can play it once or twice and than it gets locked. I personally would rather not use that feature...But what do I know, y iPod is only for listening music and even calendat and other features og that type I consider waste of space
 
The one thing I would love is to search the iTunes store on my iPod, anywhere I wanted with WiFi access.
 
I think Digitimes is getting this lucky guess of "Leopard in October because of Bootcamp" to their head; they're getting a little overzealous with their rumors. *yawn* next pls
 
Mydel said:
I dont think so. What would one need WiFi on an ipod?? Maybe to purchase music directly from itunes but I personally think its too much hussle.
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I can't seem to think of a compelling reason to have wi-fi in an ipod, unless its also internet communicator like the iphone. Can anyone come up with some ideas?
 
artalliance said:
Internet in your pocket at the local coffee shop with WiFi hotspot.
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Do you seriously consider browsing the web on iPod?? I have PSP and everytime Im in a hotspot range I always go for a laptop. I even tried couple times to use PSP but typing on so small screen is major PITA. I really doubt anyone would use it on regular basis.
 
I was ready for one of these back when they released the Airport Express... I felt it was the next logical step.
 
it'll happen eventually. There's no question that this is where music players are headed. The question is how long apple will retain non-wifi ipods (and by extension, how many different products they want to have). I mean, I could see:
- iphone
- wifi ipod video (basically an iphone without the phone)
- video ipod (iphone without phone or internet)
- nano
- shuffle

But that's a lot of products, especially if they diversify the iphone line. So I think that when we see the wifi ipod it will be at the price point of the current full size ipod, and the full size ipod without wifi will disappear.

but what i'm really holding out for is the wifi enabled shuffle
 
marktesssing said:
I can't seem to think of a compelling reason to have wi-fi in an ipod, unless its also internet communicator like the iphone. Can anyone come up with some ideas?
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The internet communicator part would allow you to, presumably, purchase anything from the iTunes store from any wi-fi hot spot.

Imagine you're driving to meet a friend at Starbucks and hear a song on the radio you want to buy. Once you get there, you can download the song directly to your iPod without needing your laptop. Then, when that hot girl/guy sits down at the next table, you can say, "Hey, you gotta hear this song!" and hand over your earbuds to them (just as Jobs would suggest).

This is the same business model wireless phones have tried to promote in regard to music, but traditional phones are slow to download and troublesome to manage music.
 
Mydel said:
Do you seriously consider browsing the web on iPod?? I have PSP and everytime Im in a hotspot range I always go for a laptop. I even tried couple times to use PSP but typing on so small screen is major PITA. I really doubt anyone would use it on regular basis.
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If a new iPod got similar features as the iPhone minus the phone, I could see using it to quickly check the web could be handy. Of course a notebook would be nicer, but if one isn't handy, a touch-screen wifi iPod would probably suffice.
 
Any Song. Anywhere.

Combine this with the rumors of a subscription service, and you've got "Any song you want is just a hot spot away." The store is set up so that it's easy to use in column mode. This is what everyone thought the Zune would use it's WiFi for. It would be nice to see Apple beat them to it, despite MS having WiFi and a subscription service first.
 
You put wifi in the iPod and then it can do something that's been touted as a major selling point of the Apple TV - you can listen to your music/watch your videos away from the computer. Just sync your iPod with your Mac and it'll stream your library to the iPod.
 
I sincerely doubt it, especially due to how much power WiFi connectivity would draw.

Just like the true video iPod, I think that a major revolution will have to take place in battery technology for this to see the light of day.
 
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