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Apple confirms iPod "Special Event" on September 5th

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Kung Fu Jedi said:
Embedded QT works just fine. In fact, Apple even has a special iPhone version of their movie trailers site.

The videos load up relatively quickly too, especially over WiFi.
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I was a little shocked when it did work. I went to the Apple site while playing with my new toy and clicked on the Steve keynote link. It just loaded and played fullscreen. Pretty freaking impressive.
 
Tobor said:
I was a little shocked when it did work. I went to the Apple site while playing with my new toy and clicked on the Steve keynote link. It just loaded and played fullscreen. Pretty freaking impressive.
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Yup! It's a very nice implementation. I was surprised when I first found it too.
 
Oh snaps

The touch has a bluetooth logo in the top corner on images on the apple website. C'mooon wireless music transfer

Edit: looks like it was a mistake by the image editors
 
CurseoftheGods said:
I don't know. It seems like the next evolution. It has enough new features (eg. video). Mini -> Nano -> Micro... Just thinking out loud. :lol
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True, zen kinda has micro covered. And the definition of nano is probably the smallest they can go without being silly.

iPod subatomic.
iPod cloud of negatively charged gas
 
if there was a 32GB touch. i'd get it.

now im conflicted. get the 80 classic now. or wait till a 32 touch comes out.

whats the usual apple timeframe for ipod refreshes (ie, memory upgrade)?
 
quadriplegicjon said:
if there was a 32GB touch. i'd get it.

now im conflicted. get the 80 classic now. or wait till a 32 touch comes out.

whats the usual apple timeframe for ipod refreshes (ie, memory upgrade)?
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Once a year? Maybe twice? Early summer 08, perhaps.
 
aparisi2274 said:
I am so damn torn between the 16gb ipod touch or 8gb iphone... Arrgghhhh
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I like to think about it this way. A phone is a very important device, crucial for emergencies, serious business. Mucking around with music, videos, etc. only lessen the battery life, or possibly a glitch or bug could freeze your phone any time. It is still a computer, they are not perfect. Also you raise the possibility that your phone could be stolen.

I may be old school, but I'd rather keep my phone for communication only, and keep the fun stuff on the side. Then again I live in NYC where on multiple serious occasions, I learned how important a powered working phone is. It's not to be a toy.
 
lil smoke said:
I like to think about it this way. A phone is a very important device, crucial for emergencies, serious business. Mucking around with music, videos, etc. only lessen the battery life, or possibly a glitch or bug could freeze your phone any time. It is still a computer, they are not perfect. Also you raise the possibility that your phone could be stolen.

I may be old school, but I'd rather keep my phone for communication only, and keep the fun stuff on the side. Then again I live in NYC where on multiple serious occasions, I learned how important a powered working phone is. It's not to be a toy.
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Well I am in NYC as well and I want to through my RAZR from verizon through a window because of how much I hate it.
 
lil smoke said:
I like to think about it this way. A phone is a very important device, crucial for emergencies, serious business. Mucking around with music, videos, etc. only lessen the battery life, or possibly a glitch or bug could freeze your phone any time. It is still a computer, they are not perfect. Also you raise the possibility that your phone could be stolen.

I may be old school, but I'd rather keep my phone for communication only, and keep the fun stuff on the side. Then again I live in NYC where on multiple serious occasions, I learned how important a powered working phone is. It's not to be a toy.
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I agree with this guy. The only extra feature I need on a phone is a camera.
 
aparisi2274 said:
Well I am in NYC as well and I want to through my RAZR from verizon through a window because of how much I hate it.
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well, if you see it as just a communications device... you won't have a reason to expect so much. Then you can leave your expectations to the mp3/video/youTube/etc/not yet proven to be stable device.
 
Jamesfrom818 said:
I agree with this guy. The only extra feature I need on a phone is a camera.
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I'm the other way around. I prefer a single device. I tried carrying both a cellphone and an iPod around for a while but eventually I just stopped carrying my iPod because I might not always use it.

On the other hand, having all my media always in my iPhone means I never have to decide whether to bring it or not. I'm always going to carry my phone so that means my media is always with me whenever I want it.
 
ckohler said:
I'm the other way around. I prefer a single device. I tried carrying both a cellphone and an iPod around for a while but eventually I just stopped carrying my iPod because I might not always use it.

On the other hand, having all my media always in my iPhone means I never have to decide whether to bring it or not. I'm always going to carry my phone so that means my media is always with me whenever I want it.
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Perhaps one day we can "call" home to our media player from the phone and stream everything.
 
So, I made my decision:

I'll get the 80GB iPod Video. The ipod Touch just doesn't work for me. I mean not enough space, no GPS etc.

If they release an improved version in some time I'll get it, but not now.
 
eXxy said:
I have 8 e-mails in my inbox, yet somehow it's downloaded like THREE HUNDRED and keeps retrieving more, ancient, old shit as I delete what's there. :\
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Are you on an unlimited data plan?
 
eXxy said:
I have 8 e-mails in my inbox, yet somehow it's downloaded like THREE HUNDRED and keeps retrieving more, ancient, old shit as I delete what's there. :\
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That is weird as hell. On my Mogul it just displays a page of e-mails, never truly downloads until I click on the link.
 
eXxy said:
I have 8 e-mails in my inbox, yet somehow it's downloaded like THREE HUNDRED and keeps retrieving more, ancient, old shit as I delete what's there. :\
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That's more to do with how gmail implements POP3 tbh. I had the same problem on Windows using Outlook Express.
 
CM McPunk said:
That's more to do with how gmail implements POP3 tbh. I had the same problem on Windows using Outlook Express.
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OHHH, he got the Gmail App, not just going to gmail.com. I prefer going to the site instead of installing the pop3 client.
 
dskillzhtown said:
OHHH, he got the Gmail App, not just going to gmail.com. I prefer going to the site instead of installing the pop3 client.
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From those symptoms it sounds like he is. Easy solution is to go into gmails settings through the browser, Forwarding and POP tab then select "Enable POP only for mail that arrives from now on".
 
eXxy said:
I have 8 e-mails in my inbox, yet somehow it's downloaded like THREE HUNDRED and keeps retrieving more, ancient, old shit as I delete what's there. :\
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You need to change the pop settings in gmail to archive the mail after you download it to the phone. I had the same problem with my windows phone. Google needs to set up imap.
 
Patick sounds like you have a ton of email on the server and its just downloading all that because told it to. Not having an iphone i wouldnt know, but this is pretty much the same thing as outlook or any other mail program where you tell it that you either want to download a copy of the mail and store it leave a copy on the server dont leave it on the server etc.
 
We have lift off. Purchasing 80GB Classic, now.

Question from a n00b when it comes to selling music players. I'm selling my Zune(laugh it up fuzzballs), and I was wondering how is the buyer going to be able to use it on their computer? Don't music players like the iPod & Zune lock to your computer? Pardon my ignorance.....
 
shantyman said:
Superpac posted this in the iPod announce ment thread:



I take back all my complaints, and I think this is awesome that Apple is doing this.
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Unheard of. Jobs earned some respect from me, and I don't have an iPhone. He may have just sold another iPod though.
 
Topher said:
We have lift off. Purchasing 80GB Classic, now.

Question from a n00b when it comes to selling music players. I'm selling my Zune(laugh it up fuzzballs), and I was wondering how is the buyer going to be able to use it on their computer? Don't music players like the iPod & Zune lock to your computer? Pardon my ignorance.....
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No, when they try to sync it it will say, "LOL this isn't ur Zune, Format?". They just have to tell it "Ya LOL" and it's their Zune. :)

That said, you might want to be proactive and just wipe it beforehand.
 
Cheech said:
No, when they try to sync it it will say, "LOL this isn't ur Zune, Format?". They just have to tell it "Ya LOL" and it's their Zune. :)

That said, you might want to be proactive and just wipe it beforehand.
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Awesome, thanks. :lol
 
Cheech said:
No, when they try to sync it it will say, "LOL this isn't ur Zune, Format?". They just have to tell it "Ya LOL" and it's their Zune. :)

That said, you might want to be proactive and just wipe it beforehand.
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what I was going to say. I had a problem with the install and had to reinstall the software. When I connected the Zune, it said that and deleted everything. :( oh well, I'm selling mine as well because I just don't like the interface (the software, not the hardware).
 
eXxy said:
I have 8 e-mails in my inbox, yet somehow it's downloaded like THREE HUNDRED and keeps retrieving more, ancient, old shit as I delete what's there. :\
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Not an iPhone issue. That's what POP clients do. Check the settings and you should be able to find the appropriate middle ground.

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This conference sucked.

8GB Nano - too small.

iPod classic - nice storage but the iPod itself is too damn big.

iPod Touch - not enough storage dammit. And too expensive.


I was ready to buy a new iPod, my 8GB Nano was nearly full, but now I just changed the options to only sync the top rated playlist and another one. About 4GB of music, more than enough honestly. I'll upgrade with the next refresh.
 
M3wThr33 said:
The iPod is too big? What the hell?
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Compared to the Nano, yeah it is. the 2G Nanos are the perfect size for a portable music player IMO. Of course you'd need a bigger screen for videos and such, but I'm not interested in that.
 
Chrono said:
Compared to the Nano, yeah it is. the 2G Nanos are the perfect size for a portable music player IMO. Of course you'd need a bigger screen for videos and such, but I'm not interested in that.
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What did you want exactly? A 16GB Nano?
 
lil smoke said:
I like to think about it this way. A phone is a very important device, crucial for emergencies, serious business. Mucking around with music, videos, etc. only lessen the battery life, or possibly a glitch or bug could freeze your phone any time. It is still a computer, they are not perfect. Also you raise the possibility that your phone could be stolen.

I may be old school, but I'd rather keep my phone for communication only, and keep the fun stuff on the side. Then again I live in NYC where on multiple serious occasions, I learned how important a powered working phone is. It's not to be a toy.
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All phones are computers at the end of the day and depending on how good or poorly they are constructed they may fail on you, but really the more likely component determining whether or not you will be able to use your phone is the radio in it that talks to the towers in conjunction with the network you're on. Having all the additional software features doesn't make the phone any more unstable - unless maybe if you're running PalmOS or some older versions of Windows Mobile. In addition, having more convergence devices actually DECREASES the chance that it could be stolen before it will be consuming more of your attention as opposed to 4-8 separate devices.

The logical path that you've taken is just horribly flawed and if applied to most common devices would easily lead to a completely shitty world. For example lets take the automobile - it is a serious device and your primary responsibility and need is to drive. Should we then remove all forms of audio/video players?
 
pxleyes said:
Why not?
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I was just curious to see what he wanted. I see why they didn't do it though, they wanted the price on the Nano to top out at $199, and they needed differentiation from the 16GB touch.
 
Anyway, I bought an 8GB nano as a gift, and it arrived this morning (Wow, it arrived in about 24 hours to NZ - THAT's Service.)

This thing is gorgeous. I like the proportions a lot better than the older nanos, because it seems more and more like it's just a screen and controls - that is, the battery, and other things are basically 'invisible'. I think that's what Apple was going for -here is a multimedia device that plays allsorts of stuff, videos, music, photos - and all it is is a screen with controls. It's like it doesn't even have a battery or storage, it's so damned small.

The screen is gorgeous, and the new interface is pretty snazzy. Don't know if I'll upgrade my own iPod 30G, since all I'd get is coverflow and the new UI (ALTHOUGH, I could sym-link directories on to the storage part...hmmm...can you sym-link the iPod photo cache onto the drive portion of an iPod? I'm short on HD space on my computer...).

The aesthetics is really nice. I'm a fan of the metal finish (I don't mind the stainless steel back), and the small curvy nature gives the nano a bit more of a 'girly' appeal (c'mon, real tech geeks get a man-sized iPod).

The new nano is a great device - if you don't like the design over the old one, it's at least a lot more versatile a machine with video playback, and slightly more useable photo viewing.
 
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