So then, the Apple’s video iPod is out next week, but have Apple dropped a clanger with it?

What Apple has released to the world is not what the world wanted! Yes everyone wants an iPod that does video, but what Apple has given us is an iPod that does video. Now I know that makes little sense so let me explain.

Apple have released an iPod that has the ability to play video, now that is a fine thing (they have updated the screen a bit), however the screen they have supplied is not really up to watching video on for any length of time.

Also the signed up video is not really that great. Sure the ABC titles are nice, but only in the States? So outside of the USA all we can watch is a few shorts from Pixar and some music video’s from U2 and Madonna.

The one plus point from the new iPod is its 20 hour battery life (let’s ignore the Walkman stuff for now), but if you play any sort of video that’s 2-3 hours! So you can’t even use it to ‘listen’ to videos.

I personally cannot see the point in me upgrading my 40 GB Gen 3 iPod, it can’t do pictures (so what) it can’t do video (so what)

So I shall wait with baited breath for an 80 GB iPod and use my PSP for video. Easy, and much nicer to watch 

On the plus side : Mark has just pointed out that the countdown timer function (which neither myself or Dan knew existed) is on the Nano (and Gen4 devices)

Goto Clock
Select Sleep Timer
Select time
Device goes to sleep after x minutes!

Nice thanks Mark!