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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solarflare:
It uses iTunes 4.7 to sync photo albums from iPhoto, Photoshop Elements, or Photoshop Albums. Very slick!
/// ‘ipod video’ with 100gb hard drive, wireless and bluetooth av in and out ports! ///
With Apple’s current tiered pricing structure, a 100GB iPod with Wireless, Bluetooth and AV In/Out ports would cost $899, or roughly the price of a low-end iBook.
OK, so I don’t care about the photos but a 60GB iPod with a 15hr battery life, is cool.
Even the new iPod Photo models require the Belkin reader POS. What a joke. I’d be interested once Apple creates a DIRECT CONNECTION to a camera.
wake up.. this is how companies popularize more powerful computers and sell stuff..
by making something once though to be ‘more than you need’ more and more accessible.
if apple never upgraded its OS or any of its apps, you would never need to buy a new pc..
this is how the market works… and as time goes by, the prices fall too…
this is an early adopter thing, but.. *gah.. can you imagine.. this is the only thing in the world that trumps the ‘basic’ iPod.. whoda thunk it?
macman
as much as I am tempted by the iPod Photo, the lack of a direct connection to a camera, or maybe a compact flash slot is the single element that is missing for me – so I agree with you on that one
Quit nitpicking. Most of you whining clowns also said the mini iPod was overpriced and would not sell.
I’ve been using Macs since the SE/30 (Apple IIs before that). I’ve never once complained about all the Apple products I�ve owned. But making a �Photo iPod� and not offering a decent direct connection to digital cameras is just bad design. Why would I want to lug around another device and corresponding batteries (Belkin reader) just to download photos? I heard it�s very limiting and slow.
Latest rumors is that the pictures you download from the Belkin are not accessible for viewing on the iPod Photo anyway. I think the iPod Photo was released a little too early to �me too� it with the competitors.
I’m telling you, some of you guys could be bangin’ Jessica Alba, but you would complain to someone that it wasn’t Halle Barry. Jeez.
Too bad iPod Photo can’t TAKE pictures for that price.
Maybe in the next version?
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The Belkin reader is $99 extra. If the iPod Photo is truly for photos, where is the direct connection to digital cameras.
I guess Apple will survive this mistake, but they lost the pro photo market, for now.
I like it and want one. that said it is pricey and so I will probably wait for the next gen with isight recording into it and vid out you can play on a TV
What a bunch of whiners. The iPod just greatly distanced itself from the already distantly trailing competition. It’s a total bullseye. Watch Apple maintain its iron grip on the hard drive based portable music player market, which they have rightfully earned.
I have not found the resolution delivered by the iPodPhoto. If it delivers XVGA to a beamer, then I could put all my lectures as jpeg slides on the iPod and forget about lugging around a Powerbook.
Now, that would be cool.
hagar57:
On the iPod Photo pages…
http://www.apple.com/ipodphoto/
…it says the following:
“Copy full-resolution photos to iPod Photo as a backup or to transfer originals to another system”
http://www.apple.com/ipodphoto/autosyncphotos.html
…it says the following:
“iPod Photo supports syncing photos from the most popular formats (JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF and PNG) and even lets you carry around full-resolution copies of your photos.”
Hope that helps swing it for you.