http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/Sep 12th 2006 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/Sep 12th 2006 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/Sep 12th 2006 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/Sep 12th 2006 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/Sep 12th 2006 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/Sep 12th 2006 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/
Also it's the 30GB model for $249 and the 80GB for $349.

Just look here: http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2006/09/dsc_0888.jpg]]>Sep 12th 2006 1:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/Sep 12th 2006 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/Creative Zen Vision W?]]>Sep 12th 2006 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/
We want 640x480 screen resolution!
]]>Sep 12th 2006 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/Sep 12th 2006 2:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/Sep 12th 2006 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/Sep 12th 2006 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/Sep 12th 2006 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/Sep 12th 2006 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/Sep 12th 2006 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/Sep 12th 2006 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/Sep 12th 2006 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/
The only "update" on the hardware side is to the screen and earphones. The extended battery life...can all be achieved through a firmware update, unless they put a higher capacity battery in there (which I doubt).

The question I have is will we be able to update the current 5G with the software updates to get gapless playback, text based search, brightness controls, extended battery life...?
]]>Sep 12th 2006 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/Sep 12th 2006 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/
The Creative ZEN Vision:M has had some of these updated iPod features for a few months now, like:
1) Letter scrolling to find a song title, artist, album
2) Keyword search
3) Screen brightness adjustments
4) 4 hour plus battery life for video playback

I'm sure the games will appeal to some users as will the gapless playback.

As a Mac owner and ZEN Vision:M user its nice to see that Apple is making strides to create a better music player.


]]>Sep 12th 2006 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/Sep 12th 2006 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/Sep 12th 2006 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/Sep 12th 2006 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/
i'm just going to go ahead and buy this tiny vaio which is going to cost me 2500+...

apple, you dissapoint me once again =(]]>Sep 12th 2006 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/Sep 12th 2006 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/Sep 12th 2006 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/Sep 12th 2006 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/Sep 12th 2006 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/Sep 12th 2006 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.apple.com/ipod/ipod.html it says
"See more of the fifth-generation iPod.
Browse the gallery."]]>Sep 12th 2006 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/Sep 12th 2006 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/Sep 12th 2006 2:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/
I was kind of hoping aplle would break into a video ipod or something to such an extent. An improvement on the curent ver isnt going to help much, especially since the prices about equivalent of a decent video player.
]]>Sep 12th 2006 2:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/Sep 12th 2006 2:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/Sep 12th 2006 3:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/I bet it is the latter considering the install base of the 5G-a would be alienated since it doesn't support H.264 higher than 320 x 240 and those movies are only available in 640 x 480.]]>Sep 12th 2006 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/
So the best PMP's are Cowoon A2 and the Creative Zen Vision W. And after today we know Apple doesn't have the punch for another 6 to 9 months to bring something to beat them.

60% brighter sounds just like the old screen did suck. Other companies call 60% brighter a bugfix :)

Shuffle ? what's the point with that one ? As if there are not millions of these tiny mp3 players with crapy or no display at all.

iTV lookout to keep people on board, cause there was just lots of hot air in the pipeline today ? ]]>Sep 12th 2006 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/
Wahooaoaoaa. Also, is t he 60 thinner?]]>Sep 12th 2006 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/Sep 12th 2006 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/Sep 12th 2006 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/Sep 12th 2006 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/Sep 12th 2006 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/
$50 cheaper and gapless playback (finally)? Glad I waited all this time to pick one up.

I've already ordered my 30GB.]]>Sep 12th 2006 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/Sep 12th 2006 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/Sep 12th 2006 3:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/
If i'd known... i.e. IF they had annouced earlier that there's gonna be a new better, cheaper version of iPod, I'd have waited... I am so sad... I HATE Apple]]>Sep 12th 2006 3:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/looks like i'll just buy a 10 inch laptop with 7+ hour battery life for a lot more money... =(]]>Sep 12th 2006 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/Sep 12th 2006 3:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/apple-launches-enhanced-6g-ipod/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/09/panasonics-103-incher-up-close-and-personal/]]>Sep 12th 2006 3:42PM