Apple Unveils iPod nano

mosc · Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 8:21 am Post subject:

A friend of mine just go a tiny Sirus satellite radio receiver. He is a big music fan and has thousands of CDs. Still, he says the satellite radio is great compared to a protable mp3 player. (I resisted the term iPod). Anyway, I carry a cell phone. If I could get a cell phone with a built in iPod, I wouldn't have to carry two devices around. I wouldn't mind having a camera in there too if it had decent performance. Other features would be welcome too. This is the future, IMHO.

Kassen · Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 8:37 am Post subject:

Then buy a modern european one that also supports the U.S. system; it's next to impossible to find a phone here that doesn't do all of that, makes coffee, hamburgers and more and is about as large as a small box of matches. I agree those are all nice features but I don't understand any of them. I simply can't cope with modern phones. They start beeping at the slightest provocation and the tone in which they beep is supposed to indicate what event of life-shattering importance I need to attend to now. This makes me very nervous. If it were up to me I still wouldn't have one but the "boss" forced one on me.

The one thing I like about cellphones is that when starting a conversation you can demonstratively turn it off and put it to the side, signalling "I'm going to pay attention to you now" in a way that was previously unvailable. Of cource that remontic notion is gone ten minutes later when your discussion partner picks up his or her phone, replacing the anoying beeps with a "I'm sitting here talking with Kassen.... oh, ok, we'll be there in ten minutes" (for arbitrary values of "there", most of which are more then ten minutes away and not places where you'd like to be).

It's my opinion that the world existed for 4billion years without me and so it should be fine if I'm unvaialble for the odd amount of days from time to time. That turns out to be less true then I had hoped.

mosc · Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 8:56 am Post subject:

Generally, in the US we get a free phone when we sign up for a two year contract. I recently got a GSM phone so I can use it when I go to Europe - a good feature.

If you want a lot of the fancier features (camera, Bluetooth, etc) you pay more for the phone. So far I've been content with the most basic phone, but I would pay extra for one of these with an integrated iPod - I'd learn to put up with iTunes, no OGG, DRM and all.

All this will require larger capacity disk drives and batteries.

Kassen · Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 9:09 am Post subject:

It's the same here. except that you'll get bluetooth, I.R. mp3 players, games,touchpads, callendars,cameras, internet, 17" flatschreen television and a cariage with 8 horses in the colour of your choice with the subscription. Naively reasoned that would at first sight indeed seem to require a larger battery but instead they choose the option of making such monsters run out of batery after one or two days.

seraph · Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 11:45 pm Post subject:

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