Comment Re:nah it's a dead cat bounce (Score 1) 269
>They are compared to smartphones + 120GB SDCards.
Yeah, we get it. The iPod was a hard drive device. Flash is more expensive. Having said that, it appears that with todays prices a smartphone and 128GB card will set you back way less than the iPod did.
>A typical smartphone with it's cellular, 3G and WiFi turned on will drain the battery in about a day and a bit assuming that the device is completely in standby which it won't be while playing music.
[citation needed]. I haven't noticed any gains by turning off the the antenna compared to just saving power by not using it so heavily.
>Of course it can. Those people aren't the ones who still own 160GB iPods on which they carry their entire music collection.
Just because they exist as a minority doesn't mean it's a good idea for apple to invest a product line in them.
>What an carry around another device? This is moving the goalposts a bit isn't it?
Not at all. It was *you* who was extolling the virtues of having a separate device in the form of an iPod. The way I see it cellphone+iPod is no worse than smartphone+powerbank.
>I don't think I've ever seen an iPhone with 40 hours of standby time let alone time doing something useful like playing music.
I gave a source for that info, so if you have any source to the contrary you can present it. As I mentioned earlier I felt the battery life of the iPod to be inflated too, as it referred only to sequential playback without using the screen or menus whatsoever, and that's not how most people use their iPods.
>And if you start disabling things like Facebook, email, and all the other applications that do useful stuff on the phone, why not just buy an iPod, it'll be cheaper.
As we have jest established, this is certainly not the case.
>I'm not saying that playing music takes a lot of power, it doesn't, but playing music prevents the CPU going to sleep, and THAT uses a lot of power.
This explanation certainly sounds sensible, but you haven't produced any evidence why my claim about smartphones playing audio for as long as iPods is wrong.
>But hey you said it yourself your radio uses the most power, but at the top you told me I can't turn it off and said something about a strawman.
The radio uses a lot of power if you browse the web and watch streaming videos all the time. If you use it like an iPod and only play music offline, then the GSM standby and occaisonal SMS won't exactly be major energy hogs. No "gimping" involved, just make an effort to cut back on power-heavy usage.
>This is all semantics really because in this connected world I doubt people find themselves without a phone charger for more than a few hours at a time anyway. Even when going camping we have solar panels to charge various devices.
Finding the charger and getting the phone out can be a pain though. But like I say, the powerbank has been a real saviour for me cause then I can go off somewhere and have enough charge for many days of GPS, music, videos and whatever else.
>But the point is if you want to play music then the iPod is a hell of a device to beat, and certainly can't be fully displaced by a smartphone for many scenarios.
Personally I found that the iPod's lack of support for various audio formats, lack of bluetooth audio, lacking equalizer and iTunes' terrible tagging system to be quite the dealbreaker for music.