Hold on. If the iPhone is only 8GB, how could you put a bunch of 1gb movies on it and all your music and more??? the ipod is 80gb. someone please explain this to me. is it beacause its flash memory, that what people tell me.
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The iPhone has 8 Gigs of flash memory. iPods up to 80Gb's. The difference is just how much you can put in there.
Didn't Steve Jobs say the pricing scheme was based on the fact people usually buy a smart phone and an iPod. The iPhone (in his words) were meant to combine them into one device. How is it not a replacement? (Oh but I do agree 8Gb is NOT enough for videos/movies)
Hold on. If the iPhone is only 8GB, how could you put a bunch of 1gb movies on it and all your music and more??? the ipod is 80gb. someone please explain this to me. is it beacause its flash memory, that what people tell me.
okay. the thing is this. the high end ipods sell the least. the Nano's sell the most. specificly the 4 and 6gb ones i believe. so for the vast majority of people 8gb will be enough i think.
If it is to be an ipod replacement, yes. I have 18gb of music and I put on the occasional TV show or 4gb movie. The iPod's main selling point is that you can take an entire music collection and put it in your pocket, and having 8gb is rather limiting. For that reason, my money is staying in my bank account until a 30gb+ model comes out.
I dont know what you guys are talking about. I have a treo with a 2 GB sd card and I have Full versions of Nacho Libre and The wedding singer and about 20 MP3's and still have 950 MB left. If you have hand brake you can rip your dvds and make them whatever size you want. I usually save them to 200 MB and that does the trick but I'm sure if I had a 3.5 in. screen that I'd want it at a better resolution.
The iPhone isn't meant to replace your MacBook or to dump your whole movie and music library on it. Just rotate your movies and music every once in a while. 8 GB is probably the largest memory size I've heard of in a smart phone, I think people keep comparing it to the video ipod instead of other PDAs.
The iPhone isn't meant to replace your MacBook or to dump your whole movie and music library on it. Just rotate your movies and music every once in a while. 8 GB is probably the largest memory size I've heard of in a smart phone, I think people keep comparing it to the video ipod instead of other PDAs.
Hold on. If the iPhone is only 8GB, how could you put a bunch of 1gb movies on it and all your music and more??? the ipod is 80gb. someone please explain this to me. is it beacause its flash memory, that what people tell me.
It's because it's flash memory. It's as if you put an iPod Nano inside the iPhone. A hard drive is bulky for a slim phone.
8gb, is still big, thats 2000 mp3's. Its not the 60 gb iPod but still its more than any cell phone on the market.
If I am not mistaken there is a Nokia phone that was suppose to come with 6 and 8gigs of space, grated it was going to be out of a mini hd it still was something.
Maybe there'll be a "Shuffle" function in iTunes to randomly pick a couple gigs from your library to sync each time you plug it in. Also, something like "sync last 3 unwatched episodes" for video. I dunno, I've got a 2G 20gig, so I don't get all the nifty options...
You are encoding your movies at too high a bit rate.
You are encoding your movies at too low a bit rate.
If they would have put an HDD in there ,it would have been larger and lower battery life. They just can't win. I'm sure when the flash drives get larger, they'll put them in there.
God, only 8GB? What a piece of sh*t...
Honestly, 8GB is PLENTY big, especially for a phone. Even if it were 80GB, some of you would still complain because as the latest iPod generation, it should have more storage than the previous generation iPod has.
Apple can do no wrong, but at the same time, it seems Apple can't do anything right.
Honestly, 8GB is PLENTY big, especially for a phone. Even if it were 80GB, some of you would still complain because as the latest iPod generation, it should have more storage than the previous generation iPod has.
Apple can do no wrong, but at the same time, it seems Apple can't do anything right.
Yes, it's a replacement--for the popular Nano, not an 80 GB top-end iPod with a bulky, battery-sucking spinning HD
And 8 GB is about enough for 8 movies... or 16 hour-long TV shows
45 with ads removed)... or half that PLUS 3 days of music. Or a lot more than 3 days of podcasts.In short 8GB (or even 4) still makes a very useful video (and audio) player.
Yep, iTunes has all kinds of options like that--it will do that by default and you can go further and customize Smart Playlists if you wish. You can have all your favorites, all your newest additions, plus an ever-changing random assortment of "the rest." Which means, if you shuffle-play, you'll get exactly the same experience you would have with more storage: the stuff you want enough to seek out will be there, and everything else in your library will come up in shuffle eventually.
Exactly, it is Apple that is principally driving the demand for flash drives and so investment in 8 gb versions will be the gateway to large enough supplies of 16 gb and so on. In a few years we will be back to where we were with an 80 gb drive - new technology always takes us back a number of steps before taking us forward, and just after it gets to 100 gb or 120 gb there will be a new technology that takes us back to 16 gb. The more we are convinced that going backwards is the right thing to do the more progress we can enjoy.
Exactly, it is Apple that is principally driving the demand for flash drives and so investment in 8 gb versions will be the gateway to large enough supplies of 16 gb and so on. In a few years we will be back to where we were with an 80 gb drive - new technology always takes us back a number of steps before taking us forward, and just after it gets to 100 gb or 120 gb there will be a new technology that takes us back to 16 gb. The more we are convinced that going backwards is the right thing to do the more progress we can enjoy.
Flash technology is not backwards. No moving parts & faster access with better battery life.
and speaking to the others posting in this thread...
Even if they are marketing it as an iPod replacement and it doesn't do the job all the way in terms of storage at first, it will still be the most talked about cell phone in cell phone history so far. I will be second if not first in line at the local Apple store to buy one.
So sick of these nay-sayers! Go buy a frickin' treo or something... Good luck getting more than 8gb with that!