IPod touch with two cameras, Retina Display said to arrive soon

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/08/10/ipod_touch_with_two_cameras_retina_display_said_to_arrive_soon.html

by evo_9 • 16 years ago

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sabj2• 16 years ago

I feel very conflicted about the iPod touch. On the one hand, I know that Apple doesn't really care about it, and is focused on the iPhone. I hate getting the same taste of Apple fascism via app store, etc, everything. However, it's quite compelling as a device for a lot of things, which does appeal. There is no viable competitor (at present) that fulfills the same niche; if Zune HD were updated more frequently and ran Android, that would be something a little better.

One use that really almost swayed me -- or would have, had I known before I left -- was when I was in China for some number of months last year. Touchscreen input + dictionary = WIN for character learning and study! So much better than just drawing with a mouse on nciku.

All of this is, I guess, a long winded way of saying that I am glad that they got around to updating it and if my old Zune 2.0 dies I will probably end up with something like this, bitter as I might be.

BigZaphod• 16 years ago

What do you mean "got around to updating it?" The iPod touch gets updated every year - just like the iPhone! Apple most certainly does care about the iPod touch. It sells like crazy.

Zev• 16 years ago

It just seems like it gets less love, because the iPod touch is updated 2-3 months after the iPhone is. Really, its just because the products were announced 2-3 months apart and thats how the release cycle works out.

chubs• 16 years ago

Has anyone noticed that with facetime, and now especially if facetime goes on the itouch, apple is posing themselves as a total replacement for the telco hegemony? I mean, if you and all your friends have itouches and wifi, or something that implements the "open standard" of facetime, isn't that pretty much the end-game for the telcos?

jws• 16 years ago

If it is the end game, it will play out at the same speed as email killing paper mail.

evo_92• 16 years ago

I've been considering switching back to a Touch from my iPhone. A 3g mifi router is much cheaper than a att's voice + dataplan and I personally would prefer not to have a phone. I'm fine with Skype now that it runs in the background on iOS 4.

YooLi• 16 years ago

Same here, and I was even considering it more when the 3G equipped iPod Touch cases leaked. Though I do notice the model in the FCC pics doesn't have a hole for the camera, I am sure that can be fixed (if not by the manufacturer, I have a drill that works just fine for a plastic case).

http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/28/zte-peel-for-sprint-outed...

starkfist• 16 years ago

Here are the downsides to the MiFi:

- it gets really hot

- the battery only gets about 2.5 hours, max

- in NYC area, it is slow.

- it's not really cheap, it's $60/m for 5GB. Plus you have to pay $150 to buy it in the first place

If that still sounds good to you, I've got one for sale... ;)

marze• 16 years ago

The iPod Touch is a very strategic product for Apple. Apple is in the process of converting their vast base of 200M legacy iPod users into iPhone and iPad users.

The $199 iPod Touch probably has the tightest margin of any Apple product, creating a stepping stone at the right price point to facilitate the migration. The tight margins may explain why no other company has matched it in the three years it has been on the market.

If Apple ever sells the iPod Touch with the Retinal display for $199 I would seriously consider it a sign of the apocalypse.

baddox• 16 years ago

If Apple ever sells the iPod Touch with the Retina display for $199 I would seriously consider buying it, which now that I think of it is pretty close to what you said.

stashdot• 16 years ago

I think a $299 point is more likely - which is what the current 3GS iPod Touch is priced at.

twidlit• 16 years ago

There is something mysterious about why Google, Microsoft, Sony or even Nokia doesn't create something similar to ipod touch. Its a big seller and platform expansion device. Its perfect for me who prefers sturdier phone and it makes me open to buying the next iphone as long as i have an ipod touch. Is it the cost/margin of making one? lack of distribution channel?

ergo98• 16 years ago

Microsoft of course tried with the Zune. Sony has been trying with various Walkman products.

Setsuna• 16 years ago

Perhaps they don't see it as a "platform expansion device" rather they see it as an iPod - just a music player. And the music player market is very tough unless you're Apple.

IPod touch with two cameras, Retina Display said to arrive soon

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