5G iPod Wishlist


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"User Swappable battery" - would kinda defeat the "seamless" construction

"Wireless headphones" - that doesn't seem like a hardware issue to me - more of an accessory type thing

"Color Screen" - I want my Ipod to play music... and that's it. If I wanted to play videos and such, I would have gotten a 2nd PDA.

"Extended Battery Life" - YES!

"Cheaper Price" - YES!

"Ability to transfer songs between eachother wirelessly" - Never ever going to happen. That would be so ridiculously illegal. (Although someone might, someday, make an accessory that does this)

'Drag and drop songs from comp to ipod" - You pretty much have that... it's certainly not an Ipod feature, but rather, an iTunes feature.

"No Moving parts" - Wow. Let's all go get 20gb of ram and fit it into the ipod. Hard drives are going to stay in the ipod for a very long time. Hard drives = moving parts.

"FM Tuner" - would be nice...

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"User Swappable battery" - would kinda defeat the "seamless" construction

"Wireless headphones" - that doesn't seem like a hardware issue to me - more of an accessory type thing

"Color Screen" - I want my Ipod to play music... and that's it. If I wanted to play videos and such, I would have gotten a 2nd PDA.

"Extended Battery Life" - YES!

"Cheaper Price" - YES!

"Ability to transfer songs between eachother wirelessly" - Never ever going to happen. That would be so ridiculously illegal. (Although someone might, someday, make an accessory that does this)

'Drag and drop songs from comp to ipod" - You pretty much have that... it's certainly not an Ipod feature, but rather, an iTunes feature.

"No Moving parts" - Wow. Let's all go get 20gb of ram and fit it into the ipod. Hard drives are going to stay in the ipod for a very long time. Hard drives = moving parts.

"FM Tuner" - would be nice...

"User Swappable battery" - Not having a battery glued in would be nice, and having the choice to swap it out with a freshly charged one just makes sense. I'd take that over "seamless" construction any day.

"Wireless headphones" - Yes, cord free while listening to your iPod. Though you'd have to deal with batteries for your headphones (maybe a charging unit). So there should be support for regular headphones so your not left in the dark.

"Color Screen" - Never said I wanted to watch videos. Watching any kind of videos on such a small screen wouldn't be worth it. Hey it would be a nice feature for people who use Belkin's Media Reader to view/delete the images they offloaded from their digital cameras.

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I would like

Bluetooth intergration so Bluetooth headsets can be used without some massive adapter

Wifi for transfer of songs from computer to iPod.

Be able to play movies off of ya iPod through the dock to a TV plugged into the dock ( :happy: )

Longer battery life.

and I dont care if it has a colour screen or not.

Perhaps make the whole front of the iPod an LCD screen with some new touch sensertive technology :laugh:

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"No Moving parts" - Wow. Let's all go get 20gb of ram and fit it into the ipod. Hard drives are going to stay in the ipod for a very long time. Hard drives = moving parts.

i talking about not having any moving parts on the interface, not inside.

Perhaps make the whole front of the iPod an LCD screen with some new touch sensertive technology

that would be nice, can imagine it now

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another thread with this discussion :(

anyway i think for the ability to play only music (come on who has audio books) for the price isnt very good.

also i did some calculations on what it will cost me to get the dock and remote for the 20gb ipod and it adds another $119 aussie dollars to the price at stuent prices making it pretty much the same as what i could have got the 20gb 3g for. and that isnt even counting the cost of the case/cover thing that you got. this is just a cleaver marketing technique which is sucking many people in. not to mention the name of 4th gen makes it seem more advanced when its all the same parts (inside)

so price reduction would be A LOT better please!!

and i think a radio tuner could be added very easily at little weight cost. i have seen some very very tiny fm radio devices that weigh next to nothing and the battery takes a bit of the wieght of it. and the ipod already has the battery.so to add radio would ne nice.

for those of you that argue i have the ipod to listen to MY music etc.. remember that some of us like to be informed with news, weather etc. and for me i like to listen to radio from time to time to find out whats new in the music i like. as its not mainstream its not as easy to find out whats out there.

so in short:

battery (iriver does 16hrs with a colour screen, surely they can boost their battery life on the iPod)

FM Tuner

Price reduction (hell this would get my friends getting one as well, the new prices with the 3g accessories included would be a good deal)

LCD Remote.. why not how bad on battery life could it be.. hell even if it took an hour away at constant lighting i'd hit it.. damn useful.

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there's already a thread on this

here's what i said

the ipod is an mp3 player

it's not a video player

it's not a photo viewer

it's not a wireless hub

it's not an FM radio

it's not an AM radio

there is no need for a color screen. bluetooth would be nice, but i'd rather have an addon similar to the itrip for using bluetooth headphones.

the ipod isn't meant to show photos or play videos, and it never will be - that's not what apple is going for with it. there's no need for a color screen to play mp3s. the only possible exception would be one of those low-power LCDs that has like 4 colors so you could label and color code songs.

every feature comes with bloat, all bloat comes with usability issues, and everything comes at a price. i dont want to pay $100 more for an iPod so I can listen to my mp3s in color, they sound just fine in black and white :yes:

You'll notice that for all the generations, the major additions have been related to playing mp3s or the interface in general.

Touch wheel

Click wheel

Bigger drives

New casing

Shuffle on the main menu

in 4 generations it hasn't deviated from the mp3 player path, what makes you think the 5th should be different

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Just a far, far superior battery life. Color screen isn't needed, wireless earbuds are pretty stupid, what happens when they fall out? FM Tuner would be ok but not at the sacrifice of weight.

LOL that earbud comment made me laugh like a girl..! It's entirely true, you'd never find the little buggers ;)

Some people are moaning about battery life but want wireless technologies that eat batteries!

One point though, an FM tuner can be nothing more than a single very small IC and a very very light coil. It'd litterally add grams.

Personally I won't buy an ipod until a colour screen is added. Simply because my mobile phone doesn't need a colour screen, but there is no way I'd go back to b+w. And until the price drops hideously, and it stops being considered a fashion accessory.

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LOL that earbud comment made me laugh like a girl..! It's entirely true, you'd never find the little buggers ;)

Some people are moaning about battery life but want wireless technologies that eat batteries!

One point though, an FM tuner can be nothing more than a single very small IC and a very very light coil. It'd litterally add grams.

Personally I won't buy an ipod until a colour screen is added. Simply because my mobile phone doesn't need a colour screen, but there is no way I'd go back to b+w. And until the price drops hideously, and it stops being considered a fashion accessory.

Well if Radio then please DAB and not grandpa's am/fm.

WiFi f?r using the Airport Express.

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color screen - no thanks. ipod is for music.

24 hour battery life - hell yeah.

swappable battery - i dunno. maybe. if it doesn't make the ipod look ugly

fm tuner - bonus, i really don't care

recording - a bonus again

new colours - no. the white is a symbol now.

price drop - yes for me. no for apple. why should it lower the price when they are trying to keep up with demand?

wireless? - i don't see the point. unless its kinda like a remote for the airport express.

imo, the ipod has got everything you could ask for a mp3 player. people seem to want everything in it - maybe one day it can make coffee. making it do too much is just stupid.

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Erm look at the price of DAB, and the fact that coverage is limited. Also I've not sure how much weight it'd add, it might well be more.

FM is fine unless you live under a bridge, and anyone who listens to the radio enough to care needs better taste in music IMO (Unless it's classic FM).

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