New iPod Nano - $150 New iPod (Dumped the glossy feel and added the metallic feel that the nano already has)(Anodized) - $250 iPod Touch - iPhone without the phone part? - $300 Also added a light blue, red/pink, light green to the shuffle and nano. Still have black for normal iPod. I would love to get the new iPod. I'm tired of all the finger smudges that mine gets. Oh Yeah and by the end of 2008 all of Houston's Starbucks will have Wi-Fi and the ability to browse iTunes store on your ipod and buy song playing at Starbucks.
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iPod Classic is basically the iPod video with Coverflow and the new finish. Prices are 80GB-$249 and 160GB-$349. iPod Touch is a iPhone without the phone. Has built-in wi-fi so you can surf the net and has the Youtube shortcut. Also you can shop iTunes wirelessly. 8GB - $299, 16GB - $399 So the decision is do you want to badass interface and wi-fi or the capacity.
ipod touch will be at my door in 1 month. Kinda wish it had more thatn 16GB, but really, i dont listen to 16GB of music at a time. thats kinda overkill for me. Im freakin ecstatic.
Looking at them, the iPod nano makes the most sense for me. I don't need more than 8GB of storage for music. I have more than that, but I wouldn't put every song on there. My guess is that I'd have 1200-1500 songs that I'd like to keep in the rotation and the nano is just so small compared to the others. Only weird thing is that it has a wider frame so I'm guessing it won't dock very easily (if at all) with accessories.
I wonder if there will be a steep price drop on the old nano. I really don't need video capabilities, and I love the design of the old nano.
Now that's interesting. 16GB is just right for my music/video needs, but the lack of a phone/camera kind of hurts a little..
I really want the iPod Touch after watching the video on their site today. The thing I hate about it is the 16GB capacity. My iTunes library is over 24GB, so that just won't work. I might end up getting the new iPod Classic, though. 80GB is more like it.
Why not just make an 80GB iPod touch?!?!?!? ARGH! f*ck. I have 20GB of pr0n to watch during my bus trips to work. What gives??!?!? I keed. I keed. Still, why couldn't they make a bigger iPod touch?!?!?!
My guess is the Ipod touch would require bigger NAND disc which is crazy expensive at 32GB. putting the normal HD found in the old apple ipods would make it thicker and maybe more prone to failures due to moving hard drive parts.
I think they're using NAND flash for memory on the itouch (someone correct me if i'm wrong). But if that's the case...that's a big portion of the cost going to the memory. So increasing the memory to anything larger would increase the cost proportionally.. I don't think anyone would buy an $800 iPod for 32 gb (I don't know what the price to space ratio would be, just throwing something out) over an 160 gb ipod non-touch for half the price.
16 GB..that's like 1/8 of my music collection. I'll pass. I would get the new 160GB iPod, but now I want the WiFi and touchscreen too. Oh well, I've been in a holding pattern with the iPod for three years now waiting for the perfect product, what's another few years.
Here's a dumb iPod question: Can you ONLY use songs purchased from iTunes or will mp3's or songs from cds work as well?
I don't like the new nano. I would've preferred a nano version of the iPod touch, but I guess that is going to be next year.
That's not a dumb question, man. It's one a lot of people I know will ask. Put a CD in, and iTunes will ask: "Do you want to import the CD you just inserted?" Before answering YES, make sure you have set up your import settings to MP3 so that you can easily take out the songs from the library manually and play on any other PC. You can always take those MP3s and put them on a CD or DVD and use them somewhere else.
