New iPOD Touch!!!

[kimpOy]

from yahoo http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/hughes/18066

No Phone: The new iPod Touch may have more storage, but it doesn't have a phone. This means you still have to carry two devices: a phone and the iPod Touch. I don't know about you, but I'm not one to carry an iPod everywhere I go. That's why I say no thanks to the iPod Touch. I'll just stick to an iPhone and eliminate all the excess baggage.

No Camera: The 2-megapixel camera is gone.

No Bluetooth or EDGE: This means no bluetooth headphones, headset, or access to the Internet when you can't find a hotspot. Bummer.

Wi-Fi: Woohoo, it has Wi-Fi — but what's the use of having Wi-Fi if you can't always access a hotspot outside the house? Once you walk out the door, the only place you have free access to the Internet is at Starbucks to buy music.

Storage: Why, oh why on earth would you pay $299 for an 8GB iPod or $399 for 16GB? OK, so it's flash-based, has a multi-touch interface, a beautiful 3.5-inch display, and Wi-Fi capabilities, but the price just seems outrageous when the 160GB metal iPod Classic is only $349. Makes me wanna weep.

No New Features: The iPod Touch is just an iPhone without a phone. And why didn't they add new colors, FM radio, an expansion slot, or a microphone to give it VoIP capabilities? Even the Sony Mylo and Zune have some of these features. Why make it look and act like a PDA, yet leave out important things like a microphone.

The good news is we now have options. Options are great when you don't have to to decide between carriers, or find ways to unlock the iPhone without it blowing up in your face. The iPod Touch has great features, but doesn't compare to the iPhone. Now that the iPhone is cheaper, why not go for the one with the most features at the expense of storage? Besides, I already have plenty of storage for music on my four other iPods.

[ssaloon]

damn looks good! i'm torn between the iphone touch and the new nano. my 1st gen 2GB nano is begging to be replaced...

[GerardTagayty]

my 40gig ipod 2nd gen pa yata yun still serves its purpose. ahehehe! almost 4 yrs old survived a couple of bumps and drops. buhay pa. althoi nag rerestart once in a while mag isa. ahehehe! pag namatay na ng tuluyan to. i guess bagsak na price nyan touch na yan. ahehehehe!

[pajerokid]

hehe, my 30GB ipod stays almost exclusively in my glove compartment, serving as my main audio source.... salamat pioneer for the cd-ib100. no sense in me upgrading...

[hungryalien]

from yahoo http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/hughes/18066
No Phone: No Camera: No Bluetooth or EDGE:
Wi-Fi: Storage:

medyo malabo ata yun article nya. the ipod touch isnt meant to be a phone or pda to begin with. it just so happened na kamukha sila ng iphone.

flash based storage are more expensive than hard drive based devices. but there are places/ways you can use the flash drives unlike the hd version.

basically, the ipod touch looks like a nano with bigger screen, basic internet via wifi, and isync your ical on the go.

[Stoner]

Had the chance to grope an iPod Touch at the Power Mac Center at Trinoma...

While the touch interface is indeed, something innovative and the display was superb, I was kinda fumbling on some secondary functions of the apps. Kinda disappointed because I thought Apple was known for being very user-friendly? The iPod clickwheel was genius because learning to use it was very second-nature. The iPod Touch thing... I'm not quite sure. Maybe it I was able to spend actual time with it I'd change my mind.

Prices:
iPod Touch
Php 16,990.00 for the 8gb
Php 22,990.00 for the 16gb

[impulzz]

my sister bought the iPod Touch 16gb yesterday for 21k at greenhills.
ang masasabi ko ay:
1. looks cool, feels heavy and solid, mukhang matibay
2. hate the back. its mirror finish is prone to sratches if your not careful
3. since my sister is not a techie hirap sya magtransfer ng files.
4. she downloaded itunes for free sa apple site. yun ang dali daw
5. she managed to sync her mp3 and photos to it, after fidling with itunes for about 3 hours daw.
6. now comes the hard part it only plays mpeg4 movies so now she has to convert everything to .mp4 and ripping dvds to that format takes about an hour and half. taught her to use IMToo she needs to practice ripping.
7. now she asks me how does she watch the divx movies she got from ******* files? di ko nasagot, kasi wala naman ako ipod touch(no plans of getting one either) can anyone help me with this.

its now with me so i can tinker with it and later teach her how to dl movies to it. grabe kakabaliw... pagkabit ko sa pc and naditect na sya ng itunes...nag-upgrade agad ng software took 45 mins for that.

over-all its basically a pda with contacts list, calendar, calculator and wifi browser with a audio and video player.

parang not worth the 21k she paid kasi all the other functions can be handled by her moto v6maxx. parang dapat bumili na lang sya ng portable dvd player, less hassle converting those dvds pa.

onga pala wla sya speakers so lagi ka naka headphone

[oldblue]

i dont believe in these ipods anymore.

The Tvix is much much better kaya hanggang 1080p na HDMI LCD TV, can play MP3 as well all your photos since childhood. I installed a removable 500GB Western Digital SATA puwede pa bumasa ng 1 Terabyte na HDD basta naimbento na. plus i can connect 2 external HDD drives pa kahit 750GB each

bibili na lang ako ng 12volt adaptor for the car.

WAlking multimedia ala mainframe server na'to, future proof pa mkv, apple's H.264 video compression kaya. sana lang sa future puwede mag-play ng .SWF pa lahat lahat na



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with all the MP3 capable nokia/se/samsung phones, redundant na Ipod. I have a trusty slim Nokia 6300 with 2GB microSD card. sobra-sobra pa music ko dito to play in a 3-hour gym work out.

[empy]

mmm....i guess if anything i'll go all the way and spring for the iPon

[ssaloon]

I'm really tempted to get this to replace my aging 1st gen 2gb nano which only lasts 2 hours at most. It costs S$500 here.

[jedi]

naginquire ako sa megamall few days ago... karerelease pa lang, out of stock na daw sa apple store... di pa alam kung kailan ulit magkkaroon ng stock

[impulzz]

2nd day with it, very frustrating gadget. cool you can watch movies with it but it only reads .mp4 files. so everything you download like divx, avi, or other formats have to be converted pa. and dvd's have a different converter from a divx and avi converter. and most movie files convert in about 1 to 1.5 hours. then you have to add it to your itunes movie library ang sync, thats another 10 to 15 mins. thats just too long and complicated.

another thing annoying, with its music or movie libraries, baket ganun? for example i have an exsisting music playlist/library sa i-tunes, tapos lets say i just want to add one song and di mo na check yung box nung ibang songs. pag sync nya bura lahat ng laman ng itouch you end up with just one song. ganun din sa movies.

now my sister is having a hard time with it, tinuro ko na sa kanya mag convert and sync. after an hour tawag ulit sya ang ask me halos lahat ulit hay...

it's just too complicated, have better things to do than just DL and convert stuff.

buti pa yung creative zen 1GB ng gf ko, 2500 lang tapos drag and drop lang mp3 nya, parang flash disk lang. d&d 50 songs into it in just 15 mins, namili pa ako nun.

[Jun aka Pekto]

2nd day with it, very frustrating gadget. cool you can watch movies with it but it only reads .mp4 files. so everything you download like divx, avi, or other formats have to be converted pa. and dvd's have a different converter from a divx and avi converter. and most movie files convert in about 1 to 1.5 hours. then you have to add it to your itunes movie library ang sync, thats another 10 to 15 mins. thats just too long and complicated.

another thing annoying, with its music or movie libraries, baket ganun? for example i have an exsisting music playlist/library sa i-tunes, tapos lets say i just want to add one song and di mo na check yung box nung ibang songs. pag sync nya bura lahat ng laman ng itouch you end up with just one song. ganun din sa movies.

now my sister is having a hard time with it, tinuro ko na sa kanya mag convert and sync. after an hour tawag ulit sya ang ask me halos lahat ulit hay...

it's just too complicated, have better things to do than just DL and convert stuff.

buti pa yung creative zen 1GB ng gf ko, 2500 lang tapos drag and drop lang mp3 nya, parang flash disk lang. d&d 50 songs into it in just 15 mins, namili pa ako nun.

I thought about buying an iPod instead of my PSP. But, the tie-in to iTunes was somewhat of a turnoff. iTunes is great as a playback software. But, it needlessly complicates matters when it comes to content between iPod and computer.

iPod/iTunes really need to be just good ol drag n drop ala PSP/non-iPod players.

[oldblue]

2nd day with it, very frustrating gadget. cool you can watch movies with it but it only reads .mp4 files. so everything you download like divx, avi, or other formats have to be converted pa. and dvd's have a different converter from a divx and avi converter. and most movie files convert in about 1 to 1.5 hours. then you have to add it to your itunes movie library ang sync, thats another 10 to 15 mins. thats just too long and complicated.

another thing annoying, with its music or movie libraries, baket ganun? for example i have an exsisting music playlist/library sa i-tunes, tapos lets say i just want to add one song and di mo na check yung box nung ibang songs. pag sync nya bura lahat ng laman ng itouch you end up with just one song. ganun din sa movies.

now my sister is having a hard time with it, tinuro ko na sa kanya mag convert and sync. after an hour tawag ulit sya ang ask me halos lahat ulit hay...

it's just too complicated, have better things to do than just DL and convert stuff.

buti pa yung creative zen 1GB ng gf ko, 2500 lang tapos drag and drop lang mp3 nya, parang flash disk lang. d&d 50 songs into it in just 15 mins, namili pa ako nun.

yup hirap yan conversion pa to other formats. got an Ipod video once, kino-convert ko pa only to find out later from Mp4 dvd quality naging vcd quality pa. so I sold it and bought a nano. oks lang kaya lang nawala eh. somehow i dont miss it parang good riddance pa nga, coz sa nokia Mp3 drag and drop lang, sa TVix drag and drop din.

less complications, more fun!

but i'm counting on the multi-touch technology feature of these devices. imagine putting this in a 24" Imac screen. wow! puwede na ako mag-paint using fingers

[edzzz]

Ipod Touch and Ipod in general is like an IT department. You have to do the dirty work in the back-end to make it easy in the front-end and the user.

[seonadancing]

I'm going to wait for the iPhone na lang.

[impulzz]

kagabi nagturo ulit ako kay utol ng comvertion at sync, and just noticed like the previous ipods. 21k doesn't even include a CHARGER!!! you have to plug it to you pc para mag charge, another stup!d ...ay clever marketing by apple pala. kasi bayad ka extra for a charger...

[Jun aka Pekto]

Ipod Touch and Ipod in general is like an IT department. You have to do the dirty work in the back-end to make it easy in the front-end and the user.

So you're saying iPod/iTunes is the Windows of the portable gadget world? He He.

[Jun aka Pekto]

yup hirap yan conversion pa to other formats. got an Ipod video once, kino-convert ko pa only to find out later from Mp4 dvd quality naging vcd quality pa.

You have to remember that videos for these are designed for tiny screens. If you're using an iPod thinking it can have super-hi quality video, then you're using it for the wrong reasons. It's a portable (with emphasis on portable) media player nothing more. The video out is more of an afterthought.

The tiny videos look great on the iPod (and PSP for me). I'm having a field day saving "tiny" videos from YouTube for conversion to mp4.


OT: By the way for those keeping track, episodes 1-16 of Starblazers: The Bolar Wars are at YouTube.

[edzzz]

So you're saying iPod/iTunes is the Windows of the portable gadget world? He He.

hehehe. I find iTunes so complicated kasi. Too much work to do before you enjoy it to your iPod. After lots of complex task and work sa data center, paguwi mo, you want simple things to be done like moving and copying songs. Oh well, its just me :D