Firstly, I am sorry I have not been posting here often, work has become incredibly busy as I recently started a big push in getting my own business off the ground which as anyone know is very time consuming.
Now about the iPods, Apple recently released all new iPods through the whole range and of course the new iPod Touch. I went to the shop to take a look at the iPods (not the touch yet) and have to say I am incredibly disappointed.
Each iPod that has a display now does video, cover flow, animations and a revamped interface, all of this comes at a cost of processing power. Unfortunately it seems the CPUs are not up to it. Consistently throughout the range the interface is sluggish and you end up waiting around for things to happen quite a bit.
The wheel on the classic is also not as precise as you’d want it. I have a old (now dead) iPod and I found it much easier on it to go direct to the song/album I wanted because the wheel was much more accurate.
There are work arounds for the sluggishness – turn off album art – but that distracts from the niceness of the whole thing.
So now I am holding out hopes for the Touch, even though it is too small to hold my music it might be the solution. Reports indicate that the screen is bad compared to the iPhone and so might not be that great.
So have we reached the point where there is no iPod worth buying? I am starting to think so ๐
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