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General => Akihabara => Topic started by: sh15uya on September 04, 2007, 07:58:07 PM

Title: Touch-screen iPod to take center stage
Post by: sh15uya on September 04, 2007, 07:58:07 PM: Quote from: Think Secret (http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0709preipod.html)
September 4, 2007 - Apple will at last unveil a touch-screen iPod with a 3.5-inch display at its media event Wednesday [5th sept @ 5:00PM - GMT], sources have confirmed, some 20 months after Think Secret first broke word of the device's development.
The new iPod will feature similar dimensions to Apple's iPhone with which it will share the same display, but sources except the iPod to continue to sport a hard drive in place of Flash memory. Solid state media commands a roughly 15-fold price premium per gigabyte over a 1.8-inch hard drive, which is now available in substantial quantities at capacities up to 120GB.
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Post by: chokkan 2 on September 04, 2007, 09:15:03 PM: XD I'm gonna buy it ^_^
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Post by: sh15uya on September 05, 2007, 06:11:52 PM: Apple announces iTunes WiFi Music Store

Apple's iPod Touch gets official

(http://www.ayu4eva.free.fr/9-5-07-ipodtouch7.jpg)
(http://www.ayu4eva.free.fr/9-5-07-ipodtouch8.jpg)

8mm ... thinner than the iPhone.

crd : www.engadget.com (http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/ipod-touch-gets-official/)

wow oO
Title: Re: Touch-screen iPod to take center stage
Post by: frblckstr1 on September 06, 2007, 05:14:29 AM: ^ if it was (7") 160GB and could play WMA/WMV (e.g. the Archos 604/704)

(I think I saw someone mention a 160GB version??)
Title: Re: Touch-screen iPod to take center stage
Post by: kaminokami2086 on September 09, 2007, 11:05:27 PM: Quote from: frblckstr1 on September 06, 2007, 05:14:29 AM
^ if it was (7") 160GB and could play WMA/WMV (e.g. the Archos 604/704)

(I think I saw someone mention a 160GB version??)

Yeah, the 160GB is like the new version of the ipod video. You still use the scrool wheel, it has not touch capabilities, nor wifi.
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Post by: StreakInTheSky on September 10, 2007, 04:24:38 AM: It's the iphone without the phone. pretty cool
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Post by: aginor on September 10, 2007, 04:34:58 AM: iPod can't ever win Archos in my opinion :) mine http://www.archos.com/products/gen_5/archos_605wifi/index.html?country=fi&lang=en :roll:
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Post by: Cyrus2k on September 10, 2007, 06:04:41 PM: The price difference between Ipod Touch and Iphone is not that big... might as well to get Iphone :P

Although I'm waiting for the 3G version of Iphone :)
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Post by: StreakInTheSky on September 10, 2007, 11:08:17 PM: The big difference is that you have to pay for the iphone's service

It's pretty much an alternative for people who want the iphone but don't want a new cellphone or want to pay for the service
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Post by: kwanleekwan on September 13, 2007, 04:07:32 PM: iPhone is great. However, it will only available in next year in my country...
Title: Re: Touch-screen iPod to take center stage
Post by: subpain on September 24, 2007, 01:42:07 AM: Too expensive just for the gimmick of a touch screen. I'm still comfortable with my 80GB iPod video, so there's no way I'm forking out that much money for something with far less storage capacity.
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Post by: Asmodai on September 24, 2007, 05:12:19 AM: Touch-screen doesn't seem worth the extra price.

I do plan to pick up an iPod Video Nano. They look nifty, and I just cashed in my VISA Points for $125 of Future Shop gift certificates, so that should cover most of the cost.