Apple today introduced iPod Photo, the newest member of the iPod family that lets you take your entire music and photo library with you wherever you go. iPod Photo holds up to 25,000 digital photos alongside your music library and displays them on its stunning high-resolution color screen, allowing you to scroll through your photo library almost instantly using iPod’s patent pending Click Wheel. iPod Photo lets you combine your music and your favorite photos to create magical slideshows on your iPod, and features TV-out for sharing your slideshows on big screen televisions and projectors. iPod Photo comes in 40GB or 60GB models which hold up to 10,000 or 15,000 songs, and its extended battery life gives users up to 15 hours of music playback or up to 5 hours of slideshows.
“Having both your entire photo and music collections with you wherever you go is the next big thing,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO in the press release. “Everyone has a digital camera and wants to enjoy and share their growing library of digital photos wherever they are. Unlike video content, photo content is free and abundant, and there are no copyright issues to deal with.”
With its vivid color screen and backlight, iPod Photo displays crisp, clear photos both indoors and outdoors, so users can take their digital photo collection wherever they go and easily share their memories with family and friends. iPod Photo creates an entirely new iPod experience in full color for viewing album artwork, calendars, contacts and games, adding even more excitement to iPod.
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i don’t really see the point of this…although 60G is cool
Hey ! I’m the first to say WHEEEEEE!!!
Stupid custom A/V cable, though.. that’s gonna be a pain in my ass.
This is VERY cool–I may add one to go with my silver mini (which I’ve already filled up).
Go, Apple!
Aww.. no I’m not. Nice work, PeterJ.
The U2 iPod�s color–in a word–blah. White earbuds, chrome, black and that ugly red bullseye. Who designed this, Ray Charles? Blah. The color iPod also disappointing. No video play even when hooked up to a TV. No FM radio. No voice recording. Less skip protection. Thicker. Heavier. Way more expensive. At least the battery life is better. If it wasn’t for the interface, there would be no reason at all to get the iPod, but as it stands, it’s still the best only for that. Really disappointed though. I’ll hold off for someone to get it right.
Some things are only available on radio. Talk radio. NPR. The news. During the blackout in NYC, those that had portable FM radios were clued in to what was going on in the chaos in the street. The rest were wandering clueless asking what was going on, what routes were open in/out of the city, etc.
Also, many iPod users are feeling reality disconnect. Even with every CD in my collection, one of the best ways to hear new music is to scan through the radio (online or FM).
Also, lots of information posts (universities, parks, etc.) broadcast in small areas over FM. The iPod sorely needs an AM/FM radio. They could even innovate here by doing Radio TiVo right. Boom, skip commercials during Howard, Rush, etc.
Also, it’s clear they are overlooking a big creative market by not offering an integrated combo media reader for at least SD/MMC (at least on the high end units).
For the life of me I can’t figure why they would not enable video viewing on this thing. Which gets to a bigger problem. If they weren’t such total control freaks and opened the development of software to other developers, I’m sure some 3rd party would have written video viewing software long ago.
I love it and I’ll be putting my money where my mouth is and buying one (60GB prob.) – Just think how many people you could bore/irritate with your holiday snaps ………. fantastic
Yea, they really should’ve come out with a headless iPod so that it could be more competitive in price with the flash players. Also, it doesn’t even wipe my a$$. Who would want that?
Now, why don’t they just add a lens and a ccd chip to it? I can see the next patent now – the thumb wheel/lens cap
I suspect design constraint (trying to maintain the same profile across the product line) dictates the necessity for a custom video jack. Reworking the design to accomadate a standard plug would screw up the design. Afterall, isn’t that part of the iPod appeal and mystic? No device can be all things to all people. Personally, I doubt that I’ll use the photo part much, but I’ve been waiting for the 60GB for my whole music collection.
By the way�where are Real, Creative, Rio, MS, xyz and everybody else? Aren’t they losing market share this very minute.
i love it. now, how do you connect an isight camera to it (maybe the next generation super resolution version)…?
weren’t u guys complaining that microsofts PMC is a POS?
and whats this? iPod photo. its the same price too. but the pmc can do video which i don’t care about.
but still. look at u guys.
disappointing…I’ve got to disagree with you on most of your comments.
1st…don’t dis Brother Ray! Tho’ you are right. I don’t like the black and red and chrome and white.
But mainly… Don’t bundle AM/FM with the iPod! How many blackouts like last summer has there been that you need your iPod as a life-line?
AM/FM radio sucks. That’s why iPods are such a hit. You get all your music without hearing the crap. If you love radio use the add-on or get a cheap radio.
And video on the iPod?! Why? Who wants to see video on such a small screen. If you want a device that you can see video and play your tunes on get a powerbook.
All these extra things would probably make the iPod heavier, eat up battery life, and more complicated to use. K.I.S.S.
Why make the iPod some bloated thing that does a little of everything badly instead of one thing immaculately?
Bloody hell!
Am I gutted or what – I only bought my 40gb 4g ipod 3 weeks ago!!
Ah well – I’l have to wait for the 5g ipod with wireless connectivity and video playback…
Go move though APPLE! – moving the ipod range forward: Ipod mini. ipod and now ipod photo… what about an ‘ipod micro’ priced at �79 and can hold 1000 songs (for the bottom end flash based market or the ‘ipod video’ with 100gb hard drive, wireless and bluetooth av in and out ports!)
I assume this will mean that iphoto will be announced shortly for windows?
Can you hook-up a digital camera directly to the new iPod? It would be a nice off-loading storage unit for professional photographers. If not, Apple was not thinking too clearly.
Why buy an iPod Photo? Almost every decent digital camera will do the same thing. Extra flash memory chips for cameras are really getting cheap.
This certainly is a new toy for the more money than brains crowd.
As a whole, you all are the whiniest bunch…is there anything Apple could do that you wouldn’t complain about?
Of course I want one, but that’s not the point.
Al
I don’t have much (many?) brains, and I don’t have much money. But, what the heck, I’ve just ordered the iPod Photo (so even less money!).
It appeals to me!
John
Nice one John!
I wish I had your bottomless pockets and high monthly salary!
Same people complaining about the U2 iPod. Just because you don’t like it, are you willing to claim that this one isn’t going to be a hit?
“This certainly is a new toy for the more money than brains crowd.” That’s hard to believe…
MDN has had a lot of whiners lately…..
I don’t have bottomless pockets, and don’t get paid a ton, but this is what I’ve been waiting for since my 2G iPod; if that means I have more money than brains, so be it. I ordered mine already.
like all new technologies, the porn industry will be early adopters…hahahaha
this is so cool, there is a market for this, people have ben asking for this, everyone wants one, the people who don’t get one will be crying on christmas morning, end of story, now then, have to find my mom and convince her that I need one.
P.S.
You can put porn on it too.
Ron J, you make a great point.
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I know I would like one so that I can show family and friends even MORE photos of my daughter.