this. is. awesome.
Brand new iPod released overnight. Just as rumoured, a touch-screen iPod modelled on the iPhone.
It has wifi built-in, and also has Safari as an application too. Everything else about it is as awesome as the iPhone, which I already am in love with. The obvious thing missing is of course the radio transmitter that would make it a mobile phone.
I sat here watching that guided tour about the iPod, and just so wanted one. But in the end, I think I will hold out for an iPhone early next year. The iPod is great… but it’s only half and iPhone. And for only a little bit more (probably), you should be able to be a 3G HSDPA iPhone in early 2008.
That will be the ultimate device. It will kill everything else.
September 6th, 2007 at 7:19 am
All very nice, but why do I want something that stores little more than one third of my music collection, just so I can watch extra animations that respond to my finger movements?
I welcome the announcement of the 160GB iPod though…..
September 6th, 2007 at 7:21 am
Yeah, I too wondered that. It will just store all my music now. But no podcasts, photos or videos that I have. So yeah, the size sucks a bit.
That’s also one thing that’s a little bit disappointing about the iPhone.
September 6th, 2007 at 7:36 am
I don’t think it will set the world on fire just yet*, for the same reasons that the computer and internet didn’t kill Television just yet.
Media is merging, but it’s still a bit expensive for the average end consumer. In about 20 years, things will be nicely integrated.
*We’d be all dead in a miasma of flame and destruction.