“The Apple iPod still has the easiest interface to use and is still the most stylish player. The price is friendlier, and the player is a millimeter thinner than previous iPods – all welcome improvements that (again) make it the player to beat. Cons: Still no onboard FM or recording,” Bill Machrone writes for PC Magazine, giving Apple’s new iPod 4G lineup 4.5 out of a possible 5 and awarding the line PC Magazine’s Editor’s Choice.
“The new iPod comes in 20GB and 40GB versions, and you’ll still have to buy third-party add-ons to get FM reception or recording. But the iPod has become a platform, and Apple counts over 200 accessories with more arriving weekly, giving the iPod expandability other players can’t match,” Machrone writes. “This latest iPod is incremental progress. If your current iPod works for you, there’s no need to dump it on eBay and buy a new one. But if you haven’t yet joined the cult of iPod, the improvements and lower prices mean your patience will be handsomely rewarded.”
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Atomic Flower:
I would like to respond to your arguments with my own, admittedly personal views:
Which is what’s so great about it, really. If you only ever listened to things you know about, then you’d never hear anything else. You’d be narrowminded.
Radio:
Talk Shows…………………..we already got that on TV, why listen to pseudo experts’ and so-called celebrities’ points of view? Why not read the news (lots of news) and make up your own mind!
Ethnic Radio…………………talking about narrowminded, radio is either good or bad, never African, Asian or European.
Exposure to new music….that would be a valid point if radio stations would not broadcast the billboards back and forth all day long. Or give you 70’s music (urgh!), 80’s music (yikes!), or, worst, “easy listening” (puke!). You want to get exposure to new music? Why not visit a club once in a while? Or a life act?
Weather……………………….www.weather.com ……
News…………………………..www.washingtonpost.com (it’s free) or [url=http://www.localnewspaper.com]http://www.localnewspaper.com[/url] This is information age. You don’t listen to half an hour’s worth of babble to perhaps gain a tiny morsel of information.
However, if you do like radio, go for it. But you don’t need an iPod for that. Any $10 headset radio will do the job nicely.
Anyway, have a good day!
Sure, if FM radio capabilities were added to the iPod AND it didn’t cost more or impact anything else, like the size or the quality of the other components, I wouldn’t kick.
But I’m not sure if that is possible.
Is it possble?
I’ll admit that I DO listen to classical station once in a while, altho I’m pretty much a rock fan, But there are NO good rock stations in the NYC area. There are some college stations that are interesting.
But once I bought my iPod and I could program my favorite 3,000 songs or so, radio became far less interesting. And I didn’t have to drag CDs around.
Hey, if a radio station surfaced that played Brian Eno, Phillip Glass and the Talking Heads existed I would listen to radio a lot more. But the days of creative, DJ driven radio are over. Or cowering here and there.
Actually there are a few stations on the iTunes radio that aren’t half bad.
My point is that, for me. the lack of a radio is just not a gaping hole in the feature set of the iPod.
dv
Forget adding the radio and add bluetooth to the iPod