New iPods + cheaper iphones

[ssampier]

Of course all the Internet is ablaze with the newer iPods and the cheaper prices for an iPhone (only one model now).

I must admit that iPod touch looks pretty snazzy. I bought an iPod 30 GB for Christmas last year; I don't regret it. Tech only gets smaller, faster, and cheaper.

 

[Agamon]

Looks interesting, but my newish iPod shuffle is good enough for me. I never listen to more than 6 hours of music at a time nor need a screen to look at (either at work or working out). The whole dock and mouseclick to get new music is awesome.

Good thing Jobs had some good news for the early adopters of the iPhone today. That's a big price drop so soon.

 

[Enforcer]

Well, I still won't buy an iPhone, but the new price is awfully tempting. Once it gets 30gb and a 3g antenna though...look out.

 

[ssampier]

The iPhone is way cool, but to be tethered to AT&T? Nah, I'll wait. 30 GB may take awhile, though, I think. 3G, who knows?

Is iPhone available overseas yet?

 

[Thanee]

Is iPhone available overseas yet?

Don't think so. But its security features, which bind it to one provider, have been cracked already (with university support, since it's legal to do so here; took them 16 seconds to decrypt it and get the system passwords ).

Bye
Thanee

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

The new iPod interface is cool, but I've found my 4G nano to be perfectly sufficient. It can't hold all my mp3s and audio books at once, but then I don't listen to them all at once anyway.

Now, my wife and I have AT&T plans (why, oh why did they change the name from Cingular?) and she was having a lot of trouble with her phone. Since she carries a phone, iPod, and PDA everywhere, I went ahead and bought her an iPhone as an anniversary gift ... last Saturday ... which she activated on Wednesday ... the day they dropped the price. From what I've read online I can get the difference refunded so I'm headed to the AT&T store today.

She absolutely *loves* the iPhone -- particularly the email and web features. She's off and a dog show now and completely enjoying staying connected. The interface is intuitive, and she gets all the functions she needs. There are a few things she misses about her older equipment:

- No downloadable ringtones. The ones with the phone are pretty sad.
- No voice dialing.
- IPod functions can't be manually managed -- they have to be synced. That's a pain because we share one computer with iTunes, and it is much easier to drag & drop files to the device than sync.

 

[ssampier]

[off-topic rant]
AT&T Wireless and Cingular existed independently. AT&T Wireless couldn't cut it, so it sold out to Cingular. AT&T was purchased by a separate company and then purchased other phone companies and morphed into AT&T.

Now that AT&T purchased Cingular and decided to call it AT&T. AT&T sold out so it could become AT&T again?

What's next Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net?
[/off-topic rant]

 

[Welverin]

I must admit that iPod touch looks pretty snazzy. I bought an iPod 30 GB for Christmas last year; I don't regret it. Tech only gets smaller, faster, and cheaper.

Except for iPods, so far I've notice that Apple has set price points and introduces new models rather lower the prices on the old ones.

 

[ssampier]

True, Apple retail prices are fixed. That doesn't mean their manufacturing processes cost stay fixed; no doubt they drop along with advances in tech.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Eh... the touch interface is cool an all.... but I'm not shelling out 300 bux for 16gigs of memory and a cool touch screen when I can't even fill half of my 80 gig ipod. I'll wait until the touch ipod could act hold more songs then two nanos before I buy one.

But until then, I'm waiting till the anti-trust hammer falls on Apple's head as a due to the the whole wi-fi i-tunes store.