IPOD Question

The answer is yes what platform are you using?

 

The I-Pod Photo is completely worthless. Imagine with me for a sec. Imagine you trying to view a big picture of your car on a tiny cell phone screen. It's absolutely worthless. You can't even see much detail. My bro's friend has one and he's completely disappointed with it. Its nice to have a picture on your Ipod, but why pay $100 more for a crappy picture thats tiny. Stick with the normal I-Pod. If you don't believe me, then go buy one and see for yourself.

 

I have a first generation iPod and an iPod shuffle. I have both of them, as well as my mom's iPod mini, connected to the same installation of iTunes on my iMac. All three have different syncing requirements and playlists. No problems.

As for the iPod photo, it's really meant for a quick review of photos. You could output to a TV if you want a bigger view. Personally, I'll probably wait since I'm good with what I got, but I was seriously tempted to get the one that's available in the Sale section of the online Apple Store. $379 for a 40 GB iPod photo, which comes with both USB and Firewire cables, adapter, and dock.

 

Ohh yea, and the classic comes with 40 Gb also.

 

There are products from other companies that combine an MP3 player, portable hard drive and media card readers so you can take the card out of your camera, stick it in and copy the photos. They're stupidly hard to find for some reason, though, so I can't vouch for the quality of any of them in particular:

Froogle search

 

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i wouldn't say it's worthless. i've had both and prefer the ipod photo. i actually thought pictures were pretty stunning for the unit. quality was excellent. color interface is definetely more appealing. whereas the plain black and white interface is just boring. but it really depends on what your looking for. i would say it's not worth the retail price but the 30gb around $300 is a very good price. luckily i got my 60gb ipod photo at 40% off retail when it first came out.

 

I have an iPod Photo, and love it. I think its worth every penny. Having the ability to have album art is awesome. I take a lot of pictures and put them onto my iPod photo. All of my friends love it too. Its nice to be talking about a trip or something and pull this out and show the pics from it.

 

A pocket pc is better for that. HP also makes a bluetooth headphone thingy that goes around the back of your head and can be plugged in to recharge. I have an HP ppc and I love it, its a hp5555. Worth every hard earned penny.

 

However, the album art is awesome for music playback, and the screen is much nicer. The space will also be very useful for image tank purposes for the photo types. Also, there is a video out for viewing pictures on a TV if you're into that.

And this is coming from someone who has a monochrome iPod mini.

Except that with Apple's new $29 USB adapter, you don't need to go to a computer first to view the pix on the iPod photo's screen. (You do need to though to view them on a TV.) That's enough for a quick visual verification of transferred photos.

Well, I have zero use for a PDA these days. My iPod mini and phone have replaced PDAs, for my usage.