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Jools
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- 40GB or 60GB
- Up to 15 hours of music playback; up to 5 hours of slideshows with music
- 2-inch (diagonal) 65,536-color LCD with LED backlight
- Take up to 15,000 songs or up to 25,000 photos wherever you go
- Auto-sync your music, photos and album art with iTunes 4.7
- Sharp, vivid 2-inch Color LCD screen displays more than 65 thousand colors
- Connect iPod Photo to a projector or TV and give slideshows — complete with music
- Enjoy up to 15 hours of continuous music thanks to extended battery life(2)
- Copy full-resolution photos to iPod Photo as a backup or to transfer originals to another system
- Find songs and photos fast with the Apple Click Wheel
- Use iPod Photo with Mac OS X or Windows 2000/XP
- Take it everywhere — it weighs just 6.4 ounces
- Shuffle songs in the main menu
- Play music in MP3, AAC and Apple Lossless formats
- Create and save multiple On-the-Go Playlists
- Adjust the read speed for Audiobooks
- Enjoy seamless integration with iTunes
- Sync and charge via included FireWire or USB 2.0 cables
- Use as a portable hard drive — take your files with you
- Remind yourself with Text Notes
- Play games on-the-go — in living color
- Keep appointments using the Alarm Clock/Sleep Timer
- Stay organized with contacts/calendars/to-do lists, all in color
- Benefit from more language support
- Record voice notes (with accessory)
- Choose from hundreds of cool accessories designed just for iPod Photo
The newest member of the iPod family, iPod Photo comes in two sizes: a 40GB model, available for $499, and a capacious 60GB model that sells for $599. Both feature a razor sharp LCD display that lets you see your photos in vivid color — 65,536 colors, to be exact. And with its built-in backlighting, you’ll be able to admire those photos indoors or out.
Take Your Photos for a Spin
Like its famous siblings, iPod Photo features the touch-sensitive Apple Click Wheel that’s the envy of the industry. You’ll use it to navigate iPod Photo’s new menu. Now in living color, its easier to read than ever. That’s thanks in part to the clarity of the display — it offers 220x176-pixel resolution — and in part to the new Myriad typeface. Spin the wheel to Music, and you can scroll effortlessly through dozens of playlists, hundreds of albums or thousand of songs.
http://www.apple.com/ipodphoto/
http://www.apple.com/ipod/u2/
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maddav
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Thanks for the great news Jools! 
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Jools
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Also, new iTunes 4.7 and the iPod sock!
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maddav
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IPOD SOCK!!! 
Just Downloaded iTunes 4.7.
Have you seen the U2 advert? it doesn't have the U2Pod, but it features the new song, it's pretty cool.
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methylated_spirit
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ohh, an ipod that can carry photos but cant take them! Hey its the worlds biggest memory stick!
Hello, Scroto!
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maddav
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It's not a stick 
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axxxr
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Griffin is making a black edition of the iTrip to match the new special-edition U2 iPod.
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maddav
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Cool, didn't know that
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Superluminova
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woo-hoo finally a colour screen ipod!
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mixin
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If it doesn't take long for each photo to load on the pod, it'd be great. One of the problems with my iRiver H340 is that pics take ages to load!
I like the ipod sock though
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BOSSHOGG
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That red and black one looks nice. But it's a tad expensive. There's a 20gb portable multimedia player thingy with a massive screen that records off the telly for 300 quid.
I like what you did with your name there, very clever  It was 3g before right? |
p900 lover
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if they make it with bt and make a add on for digital camers to be able to send pics to the ipod then all i need it a 128mb memory stick and send it over to the ipod |
mixin
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Theres a Belkin card reader that can be attached to the ipod to transfer pics.
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Jools
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| If it doesn't take long for each photo to load on the pod, it'd be great. One of the problems with my iRiver H340 is that pics take ages to load!
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I just watched the video stream of the launch of the iPod photo and photo loading is instantaneous. They've been quite clever to get the interface to be as quick as possible.
You have the option of storing iPod resolution, TV resolution and full resolution images on the iPod. The iPod uses very small thumbnails and iPod screen-res versions of the images to display on its own screen as fast as possible. Then if you're viewing on a TV or projector (it has both composite video and S-Video outputs), the iPod uses the higher resolution versions. If you want to transfer an image to another computer it uses the original highest resolution photo.
In the demo slideshows from the launch they have a soft-edged right to left wipe effect. I'm not sure whether there are other wipe effects too.
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Jools
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There's an interesting opinion on why Apple still haven't released a video iPod here:
I saw some interesting theories why there's no video iPod. I won't get into the argument about whether consumers want mobile video. There's clearly a segment that does and I won't debate that side of the argument. The argument I read today goes since Steve Jobs owns Pixar he doesn't want illegal movies ripped. Perhaps. But that's not the reason. It's because unlike music, it's illegal to rip a DVD to your hard drive, Pixar or otherwise. Simple. No same company wants to get into that legal issue with the studios and provide those tools. Not Apple. Not Microsoft. In fact, the reason MediaCenter Extenders won't stream DVDs from your MCE to the device is that in order to do so they need to be decrypted to send the stream. That's illegal too. Should it be? Of course not, but at the moment, it is. The only other source of legal video content is recorded TV and Apple at the moment has no interest in playing in that market. Should they? Perhaps, but that's another story. Now there's always personal created video but the market for that is tiny... really, really tiny. Call me and I'll show you how small those numbers are. There's a reason we call them consumers, as they consume content and not create it. There's no market for the video iPod for Apple's customers at the moment. No evil schemes. No Machiavellian thoughts behind it. It's just not a good move for Apple without the sources of content they need. They will be there and we will get a video iPod one day. Just not this one.
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