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Is there even still a market for such devices? While $200 dollars may be a lot less than an unlocked iPhone, its certainly not cheap. Plus you can get an iPhone 6 at that price if you are willing to get into a contract.
I wonder if they will ever put the GPS in the iPod, or if they consider that a big differentiator for the iPhone.
I think the GPS receiver comes "for free" with the phone hardware (the DSP/antenna package). So, I doubt it, just because it wouldn't add much and would cost significantly more (both in components and battery life). With this kind of device, you're only online when in wifi, so location-aware services are limited too. i.e. what would you do with the GPS info? Maybe photo tagging?
Using any offline navigator.
I want 160gb classic back!
Interesting that the landing page describes colours, screen resolution, even the CPU architecture and speed - but not the storage capacity. I have >100GB of music on on old iPod Classic and capacity is the most important factor for me.
Or the music quality. Same as the iPhone (which is pretty good, admittedly)? Or better?
I want 160gb classic back!
We're about at the point where I think a 256GB flash-based iPod would be economical, especially with cheaper/slower flash (doesn't really need to be very fast for this use case). It would provide capacity and still have no moving parts, checking all the boxes for me.
I wonder if they will ever put the GPS in the iPod, or if they consider that a big differentiator for the iPhone.
Perhaps it isn't worth it? iPod doesn't have 3G, so it's offline outside WiFi range. This means you're either close to WiFi and WiFi-based location works, or you couldn't do much with it anyway.
Interesting that the landing page describes colours, screen resolution, even the CPU architecture and speed - but not the storage capacity. I have >100GB of music on on old iPod Classic and capacity is the most important factor for me.
This is especially true for the large mobile gaming market, where it's a lot more likely that a parent will buy an iTouch for $199 for their kids to play with vs getting them an iPhone (which wasn't realistic before the refresh due to hardware limitations)
It will be interesting if this refresh will be a one-off or if the iTouch will be kept at parity with the iPhone, surely there should be less concerns about the iTouch cannibalizing the iPhone sales than there were years back when the iPhone was not as ubiquitous.
Is there even still a market for such devices? While $200 dollars may be a lot less than an unlocked iPhone, its certainly not cheap. Plus you can get an iPhone 6 at that price if you are willing to get into a contract.
Also for kids where parents don't want to buy expensive contracts. Or even frugal adults who can just make all their calls through Hangouts/Skype and don't need a cell plan.
It's weird that they are stuck to the 4" screen size with the iPod Touch. I fully expected them to make one the size of iPhone 6, like every previous iPod Touch.
I wonder if they will ever put the GPS in the iPod, or if they consider that a big differentiator for the iPhone.
I think the GPS receiver comes "for free" with the phone hardware (the DSP/antenna package). So, I doubt it, just because it wouldn't add much and would cost significantly more (both in components and battery life). With this kind of device, you're only online when in wifi, so location-aware services are limited too. i.e. what would you do with the GPS info? Maybe photo tagging?