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lieven wrote:

does it even have a microphone built in?

Good question... probably not. but does support iTunes purchases directly from the phone over wifi. With the Wi-Fi music store

Anyone else notice the screen size looks a tiiiiiiiiiiny bit smaller?

Who's stupid idea involved covering the WiFi antenna with a little black nub on the corner? Why didn't they extend that piece horizontally, like the iPhone?

may I be the first to say...

i want one!

my iTunes library is 17GB. why couldn't they make this 20GB? oh well it's not like I'm going to be buying one any way. does look cool though.

I want one in the 160GB size. Ah well. They did make my decision tougher. I'd love a portable internet device with music/video/photo...but...I have too much music to store on a 16gb device...gosh dang you apple.

I guess I'll just have to win the lottery and buy one of each.

hmmm i may have to get one.

why can't they make a version of the iPod touch with a hard drive rather than flash memory? I wouldn't mind it being a bit thicker if it meant being able to store my entire music/video library on it.

The classic holds 160 gigs....how much space do you need?



*edit*

Oh, the touch.  Got it.

ScifiterX wrote:

Donkey Butter wrote:

my iTunes library is 17GB. why couldn't they make this 20GB? oh well it's not like I'm going to be buying one any way. does look cool though.

Daniel wrote:

Because 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, etc does not have 20 in it. 

More or Less. Save for the iPod Classic all the iPods & iPhone use Flash Storage which only typically comes in the binary multiples like Daniel listed. Other figures like 5, 10, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50, 60, 80, 100, 120, 160, 200, 250, 320, etc are only really practical on a magnetic drive.

I'm not so sure this is really a technical limitation, though, as far as solid-state storage is concerned; if it really were limited to power-of-2 storage sizes, then 16GB would really mean 16GB rather than 16,000,000,000 bytes, which is what Apple uses.

You have a point, Dan. Solid state storage does seem to pick and choose which aspects of the power of two it actually follows. It's only ever binary progression in the number of MB or GB but never binary in the MB = MiB or GB = GiB interpretation.

I've seen several complaints already about the storage size.  People need to remember that this is running a full OS with a large and bright screen.  I am sure that a typical HD would take a major flogging, and with WiFi and that much screen real estate, the battery life would be rediculously low without going to flash memory.  Once you've made that decision, then you have to consider cost of the unit overall and just pack in as much memory as you can afford...which is 16 gigs for the average consumer.

Apple could have waited much longer to release it for flash prices to go down, but with the iPhone already on the market, you have to strike while the iron is hot.