iPod II?

not sure the point of a color screen....

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Originally posted by arn
not sure the point of a color screen..

Viewing pictures and movies? Ugh, here we go on round 2 of the Apple PDA......

I wonder if they'll use an LCD or go with an OLED display, it would make it a little thinner.

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imagine if the ipod had a color screen and quicktime in there. 10 hours of movie time for your plane trip or backpacking trip or car ride (for the kids?) or whatever! Watching a movie on a small screen but with great audio would work just fine, and the space it takes up is truly amazing. Think about the small screen too, as far as compression goes. you could download a bunch of movies and mp3's onto a 20 gig drive and they still would look good on the small screen. One great product would get a whole lot better. Here's to hoping it's true!

Originally posted by copperpipe
imagine if the ipod had a color screen and quicktime in there. 10 hours of movie time for your plane trip or backpacking trip or car ride (for the kids?) or whatever! Watching a movie on a small screen but with great audio would work just fine, and the space it takes up is truly amazing. Think about the small screen too, as far as compression goes. you could download a bunch of movies and mp3's onto a 20 gig drive and they still would look good on the small screen. One great product would get a whole lot better. Here's to hoping it's true!

Not quite so simple I don't think.
There is no way you'd get 10hr battery life if you were viewing movies, that colour screen would kill that battery quickly.
Also to have a decent backlight screen would mean a bigger enclosure.

How would one copy a movie on DVD over to an iPod2?
I an see an iPod2 being used to store and view photos, though.

ipods aren't for watching video... i mean if i was serious about watching movies in a portable fashion, i'd drop $500 on a portable dvd player. much larger screen, controls, etc.

color screen wouldn't do much unless somehow Apple releases new apps...

If they come out with a color screen then they update iPhoto to sync with the iPod so you can take your pictures with you.

Apple WON'T use the iPod to view movies or anything like that. If they were to make a device to do something like that, it would be completely different from the current iPod. The current iPod works as a MP3 player and a portable hard drive, and not much else. The addresses and calendars on it are sometimes convenient, but there is only so much you can do with a device with a small screen, 5 buttons, and a scroll wheel...

Now, what would be interesting, is if new (or even the old) iPods supported sound in/out through the firewire port with special digital audio devices. It would be kinda cool... You'd have top quality sound, and with a 20gb HD, you could record plenty of it. Maybe even allow multi-channel audio. OK, now I'm dreaming, but dreaming never hurt anyone seriously...

Originally posted by wrylachlan
If they come out with a color screen then they update iPhoto to sync with the iPod so you can take your pictures with you.

exactly - but go even further, make it able to store all types of files and display them. I imagine you could even see word documents, email, pdf files....its all a matter of what they do with the iPod OS.

I'm still a little sceptical at this point.

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