Apple Photo iPod

Tuesday, Oct. 26 2004 | Author: derek

Apple also announced the very very very longly rumored photo iPod. It has a 2 inch full color screen (up to 65,000 colors), and a 40gb or 60gb hard drive for $499 or $599, respectively. Both versions also include the Dock.

You sync your photos through iTunes, but it can import albums from iPhoto or Adobe Elements and Adobe Album. There is an included A/V cable for viewing the photos and slideshows on a TV or projector.

The battery life has been boosted to 15 hours, probably because of the slightly larger size (6 oz. now, as opposed to 5.6 for the 4g and the Photo iPod is about 1/4″ thicker).

You can also view album cover art for all of your MP3’s and AAC files, which is very cool.

Unfortunately you can’t save pictures directly from your camera to the iPod, which is what I was really looking forward to. Instead you have to transfer them to the PC, and then the iPod is just basically a portable digital photo album. Still pretty cool…

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9 Responses for "Apple Photo iPod"

Chris

October 26th, 2004 at 2:45 pm
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Apparently you can save photos directly to the iPod, but you’ll need some 3rd party accessories to do it. Not as elegant as it could be, but cool nonetheless.
Derek

October 26th, 2004 at 2:48 pm
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Where did you find this info, Chris? It’s not just those Belkin readers is it? ‘Cause those suck.
JC

October 26th, 2004 at 2:49 pm
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but still no fm receiver : (
I want my NPR, dammit!

re: transferring photos straigh tot the ipod… if they can come up with an accessory that utilizes the full speed of the ports, cool. If all they have is the crap belkin’s already made… not cool
Chris

October 26th, 2004 at 4:23 pm
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Yeah, it’s those Belkin readers. I’ve never owned one, so I didn’t know they sucked.

Hopefully something better will come along now that there’s an iPod Photo.
Derek

October 26th, 2004 at 4:27 pm
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I haven’t owned one either, but they reportedly drain the battery like crazy and are terribly slow.

I’m sure if you tried to use it with the Photo iPod it would just load them onto the hard drive anyway, rather than make them available to be viewed. Apple probably made it so you have to sync with iTunes to do that. :(
JC

October 26th, 2004 at 4:39 pm
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I doubt it, Derek… They’ll probably do something like they did with the voice recorders, where you can save straight to the ipod with the timestamp as the filename (or in this case, the timestamp would be the playlist/album and the files would keep their default names) and it synchs to itunes when you next plug it in… gives them the opportunity to license more stuff to belkin and griffin and bring in more $$$ while at the same time selling more ipods. :-)
JC

October 26th, 2004 at 4:40 pm
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oh, and I meant that in response to ” Apple probably made it so you have to sync with iTunes to do that. :(”
I’m sure you’re right on the belkin ones.
Chris

October 27th, 2004 at 12:20 pm
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I’m looking to buy an iPod. How big is the new one you got? How much are you going to sell it for?
Lacimeh

November 11th, 2005 at 6:40 pm
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Apple makes a photo connector for Ipods with color scrren that allows you to connect from Ipod docking port to USB on camera. It costs about $30. Havent tried it yet though.