New 60Gb "Photo" iPod launched

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I don't know about anyone else, but the ability to haul around photos on my iPod (to show to whom?) isn't worth the extra bucks. The color screen is nice, though.

Very handy if you have a digital camera and are going on a long holiday. When your CF card is full, download the images to the iPod

You can do that IF it can be a USB host or you have a laptop intermediary. I haven't seen much technical detail on the P-ipod yet, so maybe I'm wrong.

-Zeke

You're not wrong. Apple's decision not to have a flash memory port on the new iPod makes the product much weaker in my opinion. The colour screen and extended battery life are good, but not $100 good. Integrated TV-output is nice (for images) but is already also part of most every digital camera on the market. The iPod's advantage is being able to store more images than your camera's single flash card. But when you have to keep photos in-sync with a PC constantly, that's a bit of a hassle.

Like many others, I'd prefer to see images go onto the iPod from the camera, and THEN onto the computer. You can buy a one of two accessories from Belkin to do this, but they're very "Bulky" (pun intended) for what they do. There are some newer devices coming around that allow connection of a USB camera to a standard external USB hard drive. The small device acts as a master/host controlling the two slave/peripheral devices (as mass storage class connections I assume). So I suppose one of these will also work. But it's just another little dangly bit to lose or break. It would have been a killer blow (to so many other products) to put a CF and SD slot on the iPod.

The funny bit is that they're not hyping this product much. The new U2 special-edition iPod seems to have the lion's share of the limelight.

Bruno

You can get pictues onto your iPod using one of these

http://www.belkin.com/ipod/cameralink/

I take all my pictures in RAW format, so chances are they wouldn't show up on the fancy new iPod color screen anyway. For all the hassle, it's cheaper to purchase multiple CF cards than a "glorified storage container."

20 x 1Gb CF cards

I think I have to agree with all of you. The screen, while a nice thing to show a few photos to family when travelling, is not really that helpful for image review (too small), not useful for storage (no _easy_ way do directly dump photos), and certainly it won't display RAW files. With the cost of 1GB cards, I don't see how any mass offload device will be able to compete long term with just buying extra cards.

-Zeke

I've gotta add my vote to the less impressed.

I'm not crazy about my Archos AV340, but I do think that the AV400 series is incredible. The build quality is actually professional for once (a new direction for Archos products), and it has twice the functionality of the photo iPod. You can record and play videos, and transfer photos with the built-in CF reader. The AV480 is slightly bigger, twice as heavy, and $70 more, but it has 20GB more and almost twice the diagonal screen size in addition to the built in card reader.

Everyone swoons over the iPod, though, so they can get by on just the aura of their product and this thing will sell.

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20 x 1Gb CF cards

It's rare that I end up in a pinch were several 1GB cards won't do the trick.