where is the widescreen ipod?
watch a demonstration of the apple iphone in action
In yesterday’s MacWorld keynote address, Steve Jobs introduced the now very popular Apple iPhone. But after the keynote address was over, I still felt lost. What about me? The music listener/show watcher who wants a bigger ipod? What is a fan of music/shows going to do with 8Gb of space on the iPhone?
My 40Gb ipod is busted, and I’ve been using my wife’s 20Gb ipod with a limited selection of my music. I had previously filled the 40Gb and that’s without any video. The answer was previously to buy the 80Gb ipod. But I’ve held off since I knew there had to be a new ipod on the way soon…it’s been so long for a larger screen format. The screen on the existing ipod isn’t wide format and I knew that had to be coming soon. I guessed it would be the full face of the ipod sideways and the iPhone was exactly what I envisioned and more. More that I don’t necessarily need, and more than I can necessarily use in Canada (phone data rates are way too expensive).
Here’s what I want to see…take the iPhone, minus the phone capabilities, take out the internet capabilities (nice, but not essential) and just leave me the widescreen ipod. That’s all I want. I want videos widescreen, the new navigation capabilities with coverflow, rotational knowledge, etc. All that is cool. And maybe leave in the 2MP camera along with iPhoto so I can load up some photos too. I’ll use it to backup my memory card from my camera while I’m travelling.
It will be easy enough for Apple to take the existing iphone, pare it down to just ipod capabilities. And I’m sure they’ll do it as well, but just not yet. They don’t want to take away any press from the iPhone. Hopefully it’ll only be about 3 months and they’ll have a new widescreen iPod with more storage capability. It’s the next logical step in the product line.