What do you want to see in the next iPod?

[Phate]

Ok folks.

New iPod is supposedly out in Octoberish time.

Recent iPod price drop, along with slower shipping times etc is indicating we should be hearing about it in september.

But what do you want to see in the next generation?

For me its:

Remove the clickwheel (I really really hate it) and go back to touchwheel or completely touch screen like the iPhone

Firewire support - USB is just to slow for mass transfers

Hard Drive - I'm hoping they stick to hard drives and don't go all flash memory, a nice 30gb is always good for lots of music and easy storage, especially if the next one will be widescreen like the iPhone that's just screaming for movies!



What do you want to see?

 

[Phate]

Sorry this is something i dont understand, usb2 is 480mbps yeah, so about 60mBps theoretial max, show me a 1.8" HDD that can maintain that transfer, let alone more! If you had firewire 800 support, youd be up to 100mBps ish, not sure this is even achievable on most 3.5" hdd's, let alone portables.

Firewire just transfers the data quicker,

USB shares it's bandwidth with other USB ports, therefore slowing it down. Firewire has it's own channel (or whatever you call it) so it just transfers the data quicker. That's why the more expensive external HDD's have a firewire port as well as a USB.

 

[Phate]

So you have other transfers going on at the same time, enough for it to be a bottleneck on a slow 1.8" hdd, that probably tops out at 20mBps anyway?

Why are you nitpicking at this?

My USB bandwidth is currently spread across

USB Headphones
USB External HDD
DSLR
Mouse
Keyboard
Printer

Regardless of whether all that is doing anything or not when I transfer data between my 3G iPod over Firewire it is considerably faster than when I do it through USB on mine, or my mums 4G or my brothers 6G

 

[Phate]

Its just one of these things that really grinds my gears. People assume as the interface is faster the whole process is, when its the ipod itself which is the slowest part anyway.

Just going on what I have experienced when using USB and Firewire with several iPod's and machines.

Plus if the next one had Firewire support then it would save me using ANOTHER USB port