Originally posted by: KeithTalent
I really wish they would just work on improving the battery life. The functionality is fine as far as I am concerned, but the batery dies much too quickly. Alternatively they could just switch it over to a non-proprietary battery I guess, but that will never happen.
imperfect solution but pretty well integrated
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/portable...a/iluv-ipod-battery-booster-161589.php
http://www.nyko.com/nyko/categories/?c=102
there are others that are bigger and give huge battery life, or use aa's
what i'd like is fm. i do like npr. but i don't like how most of the current players record as some kinda low quality wav file, thats just sh*t. that and timed recording, or scheduled for an automated pod cast like capability.
and xvid/divx playback without having reencode to 320x240, thats a pain.
I was thinking of water proof.. one you can bring into the pool..
well it exists as accessory. h20 ipod case
http://www.gadling.com/2005/08/17/waterproof-ipod-cases-from-h2o-audio-review/
Never gonna happen. Apple makes a mint servicing ipods.
i have my doubts. theres shipping then handling and the battery costs plenty by itself, then u gotta pay workers to fiddle with the ipods and basically refurb them since they dont' give the exact same one back right? seems costly. its not so bad at the moment, finding ipod batteries is easy. it just takes a bit of elbow grease to install. adding a door and user accessable battery bay to the ipod would mess with form factor thats sure. and i know with ipod batteries they will be around for a while..the market that is. with other players you gotta wonder how long before the manufacturer drops support..or where to even buy the battery. ipod batteries are sold even at frys, u gotta probably call creative or whatever for their battery. how much does a zen vision or zen nano battery cost anyways?
ithink future ipods should have an option to transfer music via wifi or bluetooth.
i think theres already a player out there that does this. it doesn't work that well in practice though, slow, battery suck, if you plug it in for power..you are no longer wireless anyways. so its not a good idea. there have also been cameras that had wifi, never worked well. wifi is power hungry, you'll have to use a wire to power regardless.
But yet you can deal with an ipods battery lifespan of 1 year and sending it in for repair?
ipods lithium ion battery has the same life span as any other lithium ion battery. if you use it all the time you'll kill it faster than someone who occasionally uses it. i doubt most kill it in one year anymore than people kill cellphone or laptop batteries in one year.
I think to each his own. With a 4GB MP3 player, I don't need a radio. I have a radio in my car and don't even listen to FM radio anymore. And I have a 1hr commute each day to work. Satelite radio for the win.
i guess the problem is using an expensive lithium ion battery to play the radio. one can get a rather small sony radio only walkman am/fm for 20bucks, 9 bucks for fm only, lasts dozens of hours on an aa.