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Article:		Goodbye PDA, Hello iPod?
Subject:		taking advantage of all those gigabytes
Date:		2003-05-06 14:32:16
From:		anonymous2

As a giant hd (the largest one is 375x bigger than the 80mb hd that sat under my Mac Plus) the iPod could have some really neat features. I know I'm not the first one to think that the ability to transfer images from a digital camera to the iPod would be a great value added feature. While IBM Microdrives have gotten cheaper, they are still by no means cheap. Furthermore, tourists could really benefit from having infinite photo storage. Now, with the new USB compatible connection, camera syncing seems technically possible. regards, Ari

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taking advantage of all those gigabytes
2003-05-09 20:30:57 anonymous2 [View]

Unfortunately, as I understand it, USB data transfer requires a host (computer), where FireWire does not. So for instance you could (technically, if Apple let you) transfer data between iPods via FireWire, but not via USB. Considering that most digital still cameras use USB, I wouldn't count on this happening. Too bad, because if I could use an iPod like a Digital Wallet, I'd already have one, rather than still be waiting for one to hit my price/performance sweet spot. :-(

taking advantage of all those gigabytes
2003-06-13 23:23:27 anonymous2 [View]

Apple (or someone else) could make a card reader though. There are some products that copy photos from a flash card to a hard drive, but they're expensive and very big.

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