alexander Posted October 21, 2004 Report Share Posted October 21, 2004 I don't think people were afraid of exploding batteries. The problem was that batteries dies and people had to send their ipods back for service which took weeks and weeks. So Apple surprised a lot of people by an extreme lack of customer care. I think that's what is meant by "unreliable" in this context. no no absolutely not, those exploding batteries was the problem with some LG cell phones. I just used it as an example. I'm waiting for a reply from Aki though concerning why he thinks that Apple=unreliable...I don't understand why you would need 20GB of music to carry with you actually for $400 dollars you can buy a 40 Gig Ipod that is a touch bigger than the 20 gig one...you can have up to 10000 songs with you at all times, but you can take your music anywhere. You can upload all your favorite albums, and quiet a lot of albums of the music that you like to listen to, and not haave to warry about listening to the same song in, well lets calculate, if you listen music for 12 hours straight with an average length of each song of 3.5 minutes you will listen to about 207 songs each day, now 10000/207 = 48 days 7hours and 25 minutes of never repeating music, beats any radio station and MTV and no commercials or interruptions. For a 20 gig model its about 25 days... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aki Posted October 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2004 well I saw some mp3 that does voice recording too, and I'm looking into those ones because I'll be going to university next year, and I need something to record the lectures. but I'm not sure about the quality of the recordings... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aki Posted October 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2004 Originally posted by: alexander I'm waiting for a reply from Aki though concerning why he thinks that Apple=unreliable... First off, I'm a "she", and not a "he". But it's okay, I don't mind... Well I said unreliable because a while ago, I was reading many articles on slashdot.org about all the problems that iPod had. I don't remember exactly what they were, but I can always look up on that. Microsoft is unreliable very true as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted October 21, 2004 Report Share Posted October 21, 2004 First off, I'm a "she", and not a "he". But it's okay, I don't mind...Sorry, I thought about it yesterday after posting, and figured, whats on there is on there, i guess i could change it but i appologise instead.Well I said unreliable because a while ago, I was reading many articles on slashdot.org about all the problems that iPod had. I don't remember exactly what they were, but I can always look up on that.Yes, older iPods used to have problems, but they are corrected now. Frankly the only reason i can think of not bying iPod is because you have to use iTunes... I know a guy that was developing a PHP based interface to iTunes and just as he got his bynary translator working (and iTunes returns requests in binary), a new version of itunes that came out required some sort of a key to be sent with each transmission, otherwise it will not return anything, and noone can figure out the key...By the way, I am not saying "buy iPod", i'm just defending Apples reputation, and iPods are pretty good, but not everyone has to have an iPod... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tormod Posted October 21, 2004 Report Share Posted October 21, 2004 No, you don't need to use iTunes anymore with this ingenious little plugin for WinAMP: http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details.php?id=138888 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tormod Posted October 21, 2004 Report Share Posted October 21, 2004 Originally posted by: Akiwell I saw some mp3 that does voice recording too, and I'm looking into those ones because I'll be going to university next year, and I need something to record the lectures. but I'm not sure about the quality of the recordings... I have a remote control on my Creative Jukebox 3 which lets me do voice recording. Sound quality is okay for speech, and if you can live with, say, 64kps bit rate you get a LOT of recording time with a couple of hundred megabytes of storage. I use it for basic sampling "in the field" for my music stuff, which requires rather heavy bit rates (like 256 or 384 kps) so that gobbles up space really fast and is best done with a harddisk based player. BUT sadly the build quality of the thing is on the wrong side of "bad" so it's close to broken now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted October 21, 2004 Report Share Posted October 21, 2004 I got the solution for Aki:she said she wanted a mp3 player with voice recording functionality ot something, anyways i found one for her:http://www.iriveramerica.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted October 21, 2004 Report Share Posted October 21, 2004 by the way, bit rate 40 to 320 kbps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freethinker Posted October 21, 2004 Report Share Posted October 21, 2004 I've got the most versital one around for her Kyocera 7135 smartphone http://www.kyocera-wireless.com/7135-smartphone/pdf/7135_product_brochure.pdf It is a full Palm Color computer w/ full web browser, CDMA2000 1X technology cell phone w/spr phone, MP3 player, GPS, Voice recorder, Alarm Clock, Calculator, Media player (.jpg, .bmp, .tif, .png, .mov, .avi, .aud, .wmf formats), IR controller, Takes both SD and MMC expansion cards. (edit) Oh ya, it's smaller than an ipod. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aki Posted October 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2004 Hey, alexander, I really like that one you're showing me. The price doesn't look too bad I guess, but I certainly like the features and the "look" Well I'm now I'm looking at viFP-195T, the one that does the voice recording... what I don't like about that one is that it only supports USB 1.1 and not 2.0, but does that really matter anyways? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aki Posted October 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2004 FT, thanks for finding me that mp3., but I think that's more than more what I need and I don't think the price is "right" for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TINNY Posted October 22, 2004 Report Share Posted October 22, 2004 Aki, there are a lot of generic ones which are far cheaper than, for example, iRiver. But, these are in Malaysia. Just to give you an idea. Then you can find one near your place. 512mb MP3 Player for RM 400 (about 120USD) This is a cheaper one - abt. 95 USD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freethinker Posted October 22, 2004 Report Share Posted October 22, 2004 Originally posted by: AkiFT, thanks for finding me that mp3., but I think that's more than more what I need and I don't think the price is "right" for me. I have the previous version of their Smartphone and it has been incredible. I am planning on upgrading, soon I hope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tormod Posted October 22, 2004 Report Share Posted October 22, 2004 Tinny, I edited your post just to fix an error with the links. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted October 25, 2004 Report Share Posted October 25, 2004 Aki asid: USB 1.1 and not 2.0, but does that really matter anyways? the difference is: USB 1.1 transfer rate is 12Mbps and USB2.0 transfer rate is 480Mbps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aki Posted October 26, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2004 ah, that's a big difference in speed! thanks for answering alexander Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted October 26, 2004 Report Share Posted October 26, 2004 Any time Aki.another difference is in that USB2 cables, most of the time, have a ferrite choke to limit the possible amount of input from the outside world, USB 1 cables dont have that and thus are (or rather tend to be) cheaper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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