Do you have any link that supports this? I'm really interested, thanks :P
Video is just 30 still frames a second. It wouldn’t be hard to grab a still frame, but at only 0.3Mbps it’s not very good by any measure for a still frame. Take the iPhone 3GS for example, it can do 3Mpx stills or 640x480 (0.3Mpx) video. I’d think that they would have told us if it can do still a decent still image.
Who cares about FM radio? The music on radio is awful. It's just the same songs being played everyday year after year. Now that you can buy used CDs for so little why bother with radio at all?
Maybe where you live. In my hometown (Seattle), we have several commercial-free stations playing great music. One of them (KEXP) has regular live in-studio sessions, many with artists passing through town for a series of shows. They're a fantastic source for finding out about new music I've never heard before (and would absolutely never hear on commercial radio) -- stuff that I'll often then buy so I can listen to it on my iPod.
Furthermore, an FM tuner would let me listen to the news (NPR) on my walk to work -- which is a lot easier than screwing around syncing my iPod before heading out the door so I can listen to already-outdated news podcasts.
Chill... an extra feature that a few of us will enjoy won't kill you.
Would be nice to include a Sirius receiver, instead, complete with iTunes tagging and live pause. Now, THAT would be sweet and worth another $50.
That would be great for me. I?d buy it, but I don?t think we?ll be seeing it anytime soon. I think the technology is too large, too costly, too power inefficient, and there aren?t enough people who make the engineering worthwhile. Maybe a proper attachment that fits the Touch/iPhone as Apple only needs to sell them the license.
I'm a grad student that happens to have a conflict in my class schedule; I have to leave a stats class 20 minutes early to get to a lecture I proctor. I was going to buy a Flip camera to record the missing part of the class I have to leave (Actually, I was going to record the entire thing. But the lecture is 1:20 long, and I want to record the whole thing, not just the last 20 minutes. I've worked this all out; a friend will bring the camera to me after class).
ANYWAY, my questions:
- What is the maximum length of a video recording? I want to let it roll for more than 80 minutes.
- Can it use an external microphone for better sound quality?
- Are there going to be tripod-like accessories? I would love one to prop this on a school desk as I take notes.
Jeepers.
Cant. Believe. This.
Either you're joking, or ... well I can't say that I guess.
You really expect tripod compatibility, and all that other stuff out of a $150 iPod the size of a box of matches? Get a clue.
Or re-set your ridiculous expectations or something.
Either you're joking, or ... well I can't say that I guess.
You really expect tripod compatibility, and all that other stuff out of a $150 iPod the size of a box of matches? Get a clue.
Or re-set your ridiculous expectations or something.
Umm... he said tripod like. His question is whether or not third party manufacturers will create a tripod for the nano, not whether or not it can be connected to existing tripods. My answer would be, they will if the demand is there. I don't think there will be much demand for that, so that accessory probably wont exist. You could create your own by fastening a dock connector to a tripod like device. The other questions about the maximum recording length and microphone compatibility are also valid.
I've been looking for an FM recorder, would the Nano now have that capability?
I attend conferences which they transmit on local FM and I record for later review.
Kind of, it has 15 minutes of live pause. I think that it?s only a time shift that can?t be more than 15 minutes. You might have to buy a cable to have it output to a digital recorder. Not exactly an ideal scenario, but at least you won?t get any background noise if you go from line out on the Nano to line in on the digital recorder.
The built-in pedometer alerts you to how close a pedophile is. Oh, and BTW - you don't need Nike shoes ... you just need to find your own way to attach the device to your shoes.
Funny how those two words are so close in appearance, but from different language origins and meanings.
Pedophile = from the British
Pedometer = from the French pédomètre, from Latin pes, ped- ?foot.?
But a pedophile proximity detector in a iPod would make parents run and buy a iPod. Only thing is something has to be tagged to the pedophile, perhaps cramming a nike sensor up their left nostril?
From Engadget Video: The FM Radio requires the headphones to be plugged in as they act as the antenna; also confirms no still pictures and no FM recording.
Flip completely kills the Nano in any video capabilities, but there just isn?t much you can do with such a thin device. I?m sure they don?t expect it to kill the Flip HD?s that do 720p, but they liekly expect people to find a ?good enough? solution since it also includes an iPod.
This comment is exactly on the money! Flickr was inundated with photos from the iPhone despite it being only 2Mp. This device is going to likewise revolutionize YouTube as well as family movies. Being able to whip out a tiny little thing that takes 640x480 video of the kid doing that cute thing is WAAAAY nicer than having to carry around another device just to get it up to 720p. The camera you have with you is always higher quality than the one you left behind.
I wonder if the radio has a buy-this-song link into iTunes. Actually, I thought this was where genius was going to go next, with iTunes dropping in some free full-song tracks based on genius, that you could listen to once and click a button to add it to your downloads queue. I'm sure the labels would get enough buys to risk the free listens and it's much more active marketing than the genius sidebar. ( The same could work for podcasts, creating a radio experience, without the power/reception issues around radio, based on your library and genius database - custom radio ).
( Oh yeah - I just read on the Apple website how the radio lets you tag the songs to be reviewed in iTunes. Not bad. )
This comment is exactly on the money! Flickr was inundated with photos from the iPhone despite it being only 2Mp. This device is going to likewise revolutionize YouTube as well as family movies. Being able to whip out a tiny little thing that takes 640x480 video of the kid doing that cute thing is WAAAAY nicer than having to carry around another device just to get it up to 720p. The camera you have with you is always higher quality than the one you left behind.
For those spur-of-the-moment photos and videos I think Apple should consider a quick start feature using the hardware buttons. Often I miss the moment fiddling with the button, then unlock, then swipe, then wait for the app to go active. I even missed taking an evidence photo of an accident because of this. Maybe the app could be in memory by default, start recording before you hit the button and have a hardware record button combo ( double click home to snap, triple click to record ).
can someone please explain me why i would want a cam on a device made to listen to music when every standard consumer mobile phone has one with better image capture?
i work at a automobile factory, a place with several security restrictions, among them NO CAMERAS! i can't take my usual mobile phone with me, i use a cheap old one instead. but i do carry with me my ipod nano to listen to music (no net radio streaming allowed either!). now, thanks to this no brain move, if i happen to loose my nano or damage it, i will have to buy what? a ipod touch?, an ipod classic which costs double the amount of the nano? or the useless ipod shuffle?
there's some sort of thought school that thinks that every device has to be multipurpose. why ? how many multipurpose devices do we need to have? i would guess one (the mobile phone wit cam, video, net connectivty and etc) and a couple of other specific , objective oriented and lean devices to what ever purpose we care for. i don't want a music listening device that takes pics, present recipes, connects to youtube, and etc etc . my mobile does those. i just want on to listen. like i won't want a e-ink reader with wifi, multitouch screen, and bla bla bla. i just want a device that allows me to read books with the least weight, most battery life, less cost and objective functioning.
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Ahem...not everybody listens to music on a Radio.
Would be nice to include a Sirius receiver, instead, complete with iTunes tagging and live pause. Now, THAT would be sweet and worth another $50.
Do you have any link that supports this? I'm really interested, thanks :P
Video is just 30 still frames a second. It wouldn’t be hard to grab a still frame, but at only 0.3Mbps it’s not very good by any measure for a still frame. Take the iPhone 3GS for example, it can do 3Mpx stills or 640x480 (0.3Mpx) video. I’d think that they would have told us if it can do still a decent still image.
Who cares about FM radio? The music on radio is awful. It's just the same songs being played everyday year after year. Now that you can buy used CDs for so little why bother with radio at all?
Maybe where you live. In my hometown (Seattle), we have several commercial-free stations playing great music. One of them (KEXP) has regular live in-studio sessions, many with artists passing through town for a series of shows. They're a fantastic source for finding out about new music I've never heard before (and would absolutely never hear on commercial radio) -- stuff that I'll often then buy so I can listen to it on my iPod.
Furthermore, an FM tuner would let me listen to the news (NPR) on my walk to work -- which is a lot easier than screwing around syncing my iPod before heading out the door so I can listen to already-outdated news podcasts.
Chill... an extra feature that a few of us will enjoy won't kill you.
Would be nice to include a Sirius receiver, instead, complete with iTunes tagging and live pause. Now, THAT would be sweet and worth another $50.
That would be great for me. I?d buy it, but I don?t think we?ll be seeing it anytime soon. I think the technology is too large, too costly, too power inefficient, and there aren?t enough people who make the engineering worthwhile. Maybe a proper attachment that fits the Touch/iPhone as Apple only needs to sell them the license.
This is awesome - but I have a question.
I'm a grad student that happens to have a conflict in my class schedule; I have to leave a stats class 20 minutes early to get to a lecture I proctor. I was going to buy a Flip camera to record the missing part of the class I have to leave (Actually, I was going to record the entire thing. But the lecture is 1:20 long, and I want to record the whole thing, not just the last 20 minutes. I've worked this all out; a friend will bring the camera to me after class).
ANYWAY, my questions:
- What is the maximum length of a video recording? I want to let it roll for more than 80 minutes.
- Can it use an external microphone for better sound quality?
- Are there going to be tripod-like accessories? I would love one to prop this on a school desk as I take notes.
Jeepers.
Cant. Believe. This.
Either you're joking, or ... well I can't say that I guess.
You really expect tripod compatibility, and all that other stuff out of a $150 iPod the size of a box of matches? Get a clue.
Or re-set your ridiculous expectations or something.
Jeepers.
Cant. Believe. This.
Either you're joking, or ... well I can't say that I guess.
You really expect tripod compatibility, and all that other stuff out of a $150 iPod the size of a box of matches? Get a clue.
Or re-set your ridiculous expectations or something.
Umm... he said tripod like. His question is whether or not third party manufacturers will create a tripod for the nano, not whether or not it can be connected to existing tripods. My answer would be, they will if the demand is there. I don't think there will be much demand for that, so that accessory probably wont exist. You could create your own by fastening a dock connector to a tripod like device. The other questions about the maximum recording length and microphone compatibility are also valid.
I attend conferences which they transmit on local FM and I record for later review.
The radio is FM because these things are sold world wide and I don't think Digiital or Sat based radio standards are universal.
I bet they identify the songs on the FM radio in a simmilar way Samsung do it on the S8000 jet phone
http://www.gracenote.com/business_so...s/mobileMusic/
Speaking of the Jet, this is where Apple should be with their video tech:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqD6c39wBG4
Still nothing from Apple I want to buy.
I've been looking for an FM recorder, would the Nano now have that capability?
I attend conferences which they transmit on local FM and I record for later review.
Kind of, it has 15 minutes of live pause. I think that it?s only a time shift that can?t be more than 15 minutes. You might have to buy a cable to have it output to a digital recorder. Not exactly an ideal scenario, but at least you won?t get any background noise if you go from line out on the Nano to line in on the digital recorder.
I've been looking for an FM recorder, would the Nano now have that capability?
I attend conferences which they transmit on local FM and I record for later review.
Samsung S8000 jet phone will do that for you, has a nice AMOLED touch screen also.
The built-in pedometer alerts you to how close a pedophile is. Oh, and BTW - you don't need Nike shoes ... you just need to find your own way to attach the device to your shoes.
Funny how those two words are so close in appearance, but from different language origins and meanings.
Pedophile = from the British
Pedometer = from the French pédomètre, from Latin pes, ped- ?foot.?
But a pedophile proximity detector in a iPod would make parents run and buy a iPod. Only thing is something has to be tagged to the pedophile, perhaps cramming a nike sensor up their left nostril?
I've been looking for an FM recorder, would the Nano now have that capability?
I attend conferences which they transmit on local FM and I record for later review.
Just get a cable with two male stereo mini plugs and use any recorder you want from any FM device you want.
If the recorder only records in mono, you'll need a stereo mini mono adapter.
Funny how those two words are so close in appearance, but from different language origins and meanings.
Pedophile = from the British
Pedometer = from the French pédomètre, from Latin pes, ped- ?foot.?
The British spelling would more usually be paedophile - from Greek pais, paid- ?child, boy.?
Flip completely kills the Nano in any video capabilities, but there just isn?t much you can do with such a thin device. I?m sure they don?t expect it to kill the Flip HD?s that do 720p, but they liekly expect people to find a ?good enough? solution since it also includes an iPod.
This comment is exactly on the money! Flickr was inundated with photos from the iPhone despite it being only 2Mp. This device is going to likewise revolutionize YouTube as well as family movies. Being able to whip out a tiny little thing that takes 640x480 video of the kid doing that cute thing is WAAAAY nicer than having to carry around another device just to get it up to 720p. The camera you have with you is always higher quality than the one you left behind.
( Oh yeah - I just read on the Apple website how the radio lets you tag the songs to be reviewed in iTunes. Not bad. )
This comment is exactly on the money! Flickr was inundated with photos from the iPhone despite it being only 2Mp. This device is going to likewise revolutionize YouTube as well as family movies. Being able to whip out a tiny little thing that takes 640x480 video of the kid doing that cute thing is WAAAAY nicer than having to carry around another device just to get it up to 720p. The camera you have with you is always higher quality than the one you left behind.
For those spur-of-the-moment photos and videos I think Apple should consider a quick start feature using the hardware buttons. Often I miss the moment fiddling with the button, then unlock, then swipe, then wait for the app to go active. I even missed taking an evidence photo of an accident because of this. Maybe the app could be in memory by default, start recording before you hit the button and have a hardware record button combo ( double click home to snap, triple click to record ).
Would be nice to include a Sirius receiver, instead, complete with iTunes tagging and live pause. Now, THAT would be sweet and worth another $50.
yeah. right. i can hear the whining already... waaaah... apple forces me to pay a monthly fee to sirius... waaaaah!
i work at a automobile factory, a place with several security restrictions, among them NO CAMERAS! i can't take my usual mobile phone with me, i use a cheap old one instead. but i do carry with me my ipod nano to listen to music (no net radio streaming allowed either!). now, thanks to this no brain move, if i happen to loose my nano or damage it, i will have to buy what? a ipod touch?, an ipod classic which costs double the amount of the nano? or the useless ipod shuffle?
there's some sort of thought school that thinks that every device has to be multipurpose. why ? how many multipurpose devices do we need to have? i would guess one (the mobile phone wit cam, video, net connectivty and etc) and a couple of other specific , objective oriented and lean devices to what ever purpose we care for. i don't want a music listening device that takes pics, present recipes, connects to youtube, and etc etc . my mobile does those. i just want on to listen. like i won't want a e-ink reader with wifi, multitouch screen, and bla bla bla. i just want a device that allows me to read books with the least weight, most battery life, less cost and objective functioning.
can i have a nano without a camera now please?