New iPods

[adderslj]

U2 iPod (cool colours)

Photo iPod - would anyone use this? Does the iPod need photo functionality? Discuss.

U2 - Vertigo (Single Version) - Vertigo

Comments

[ephraim.livejournal.com]

I think young Stevie's got it right. Portable video will only really take off once video glasses are perfected (allowing effective screen size to be very large). That's a way off still.

Sure, you could use the ipod as a photographic companion. But why bother? Anyone that is serious about their digital photography will carry multiple media cards, and be able to preview/delete pics on their camera anyway. If media cards were still very expensive, sure, I could see it being used for storage, but the high card capacities available and relative small size of the photograph file makes it a somewhat pointless exercise imo. You'd still need your laptop to edit the photo.

[adders.livejournal.com]

If you're _really_ serious about your photography, are using an 8mp camera digital SLR or better, you'll be burning though a 1Gb card pretty quickly. Rather than fiddling with multiple £150 1Gb Compact Flash card, just wang the whole lot into a small white device in your pocket, which is oh, so much more portable than your laptop. It makes a lot of sense to me.

Having just watched the launch video, (Bono being sarcastic about record companies...) the idea of the photo iPod is beginning to grow on me a little. They'll need to drop in price a little before they get wide acceptance, but they make it real easy to show friends and family a slideshow of pics on the TV.

I'm not convinced that they needed to do it, but it does make a nice add-on.

[ephraim.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I remain unconvinced. But then I'm not a photographer, I'm a music fan. I want my music player to play music. I have a camera to take photos with, memory cards to store them on and a pc to edit them. My microwave doesn't double as a fridge, I can't make phonecalls on my dvd player and my PDA won't make coffee.

Give me elegance over sophistication anyday (and this from a techy). The elegance of the iPod's form and function is what has allowed me to get over my suspicion of Apple and lust after one. This idea seems a dilution of its strengths.

Now I just need to earn enough cash to afford one!

[adders.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm not convinced myself just yet, but on the other hand, it's already doing double duty for me. I have a small attachment that turns it into a voice recorder, and I'm now using it for interviews.

And while I see your point about devices' functions, how about the counter examples like, more noticably, mobile phones? Or even PCs themselves?

[ephraim.livejournal.com]

I use my mobile phone for 2 functions. Voice calls and text... and have come to the conclusion that i don't need it for anything else. It has games, wap, a calendar, a modem, java enabled downloads and e-mail. I use it for none of these.

As for PCs, that's slightly different. But only slightly. If there was a single other device that performed the functions that I use my pc for, but did them better, I'd be there in a shot. But for word processing, games and e-mail/internet - there's nothing that betters it.