'iPod: Hot Accessories!' Confirmed.

When it says records your voice I hope that means its good quality I would take that as being low quality for personal notes, like a budget dicataphone....

Clicked on the link but it turns out empty. Oh well, there will be something there in a couple of hours. :)

I'm unimpressed. Voice recording should have been built-in into 3rd Gen iPods from the start. Who the hell wants to carry around an accessory just to have recording functionality. Blah.

I suggest that you will be able to talk into the headphones.... just take it out of your ear and start talking...

bring on the compactflash reader!

those lucky enough to have ipods will never need anything but a 16mb card and their trusty ipod.

zonino!

edit: this also smacks of the G5 'accidently' leaked specs...

hooray, a juicy webpage leak! that's how it's supposed to be. i'm glad i stayed up to see it :)

Tsk, tsk... don't look the gift horse in the mouth. If you're going to make a sweeping statement like recording should have already been included in the 3G... specify. How would you have done it?

I'm just glad to have recording... and since they worked on making the 3G a solid mp3 player, we can be reasonably certain that concurrent development of both recording and the 3G iPods would have probably compromised both. Now we can be sure that they put 110% into each development cycle.

looks like "premature specification" is becoming a habitual problem for Apple.

Originally posted by bidge
When it says records your voice I hope that means its good quality I would take that as being low quality for personal notes, like a budget dicataphone....

Obviously I dont know, but reading the advert cold, to me, a digital dictaphone included on a £249 audio gadget like the iPod doesnt smack of possible poor quality.

IMO it´s a good move though including this option, because I for one have never given an iPod a second glance because I just couldnt justify the expense of a glorified Walkman, however fantastic it might be. I have also been in the market for a digital dictaphone to use at University, but again not been prepared to shell out £150 for a recorder with a decent recording time. Sounds like my wallets going to be dusted off now, and with a clear conscience I'll find out all about Apple's best selling iPod.

Wow! This thread got going in a hurry. It said "1 comment" when I clicked.

Is the microphone internal or external? I think external would be better. Maybe you could get one of those lapel-clip mics for giving presentations/lectures, etc.

Squire

edit: Stupid question. I guess if it's an "accessory" then it would be external. Weren't they boasting about the quality of the mic in iSight?