Xmas shopping season now officially open
by Volker Weber
Apple releases the iPod Photo with color screen, and ... photos. I got it almost right. However, it does not sync photos with iPhoto but with iTunes 4.7.
The price looks pretty steep. Adding the color screen to the iPod 40 ($399) is another $100 and sets you back $499. If you go for the iPod Photo 60 you have to shell out $599. But I have no doubts that Apple will find enough customers for it.
Before you get too excited, read the specs: 2-inch (diagonal) transflective, 65,536-color liquid crystal display with white LED backlight, 220 x 176 pixel resolution, 0.18-mm dot pitch
Transflective is good. You can read it in bright sunlight. 220 x 176 pixel is not good. At least not for photos. Same applies to 64k colors.
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Syncing your fotos with iTunes. Makes sense. Wonder if it's possible to do a real two-way sync with fotos. From what I gathered, you can only push tracks to the iPod?
That is the safe bet. You wouldn't want to have to apologize to Steve.
What I´m missing is syncing with digital cameras to use the Photo iPod as a transportable mass storage / backup device. Would that be possible, or do we have to wait for extra add-on (costing a few bucks/€ more) ?
I am not sure you have to wait for an add-on. I believe it is already available.
Very nice. Still the resolution is worse than in most camera-phones. Bigger and higher resolution would be necessary to make it a mobile photo album.
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