iLounge

1

does the speed up/slow down work for all songs or only just audiobooks?

Posted by iPodMaster on July 20, 2004 at 10:28 AM (PST)

2

“Now you can turn it off completely by holding the Play/Pause button”

You could do this before (3G). Do you mean while docked?

Posted by starflyer on July 20, 2004 at 10:32 AM (PST)

3

thanks for sending in the photos. Could you please add some more photos of the unit from different angles?

Posted by lucid on July 20, 2004 at 10:49 AM (PST)

4

Cool. Is the clickwheel glossy like the 3G, or matte like the Mini?

I found the Mini’s matte wheel much easier: less “sticky” to slide around.

Posted by Nagromme on July 20, 2004 at 10:59 AM (PST)

5

I miss the backlight on the buttons, it looks cheap this way…

Posted by Kristian on July 20, 2004 at 11:03 AM (PST)

6

My 3G iPod lets me add “Games” to the main menu, and came half charged…

Starflyer…the 3G went into “sleep” mode, where it slowly drained the battery (a full charge lasts about a month of sleep time). The 4G apparently just turns off completly.

Posted by Tom on July 20, 2004 at 11:22 AM (PST)

7

too bad the wheel doesn’t light up, that would’ve been really cool. I’m still gonna get a 4g 40gb and return my 3g 15gb anyway… I’ll look at my 3g 20gb if i miss those backlit buttons.

Posted by ayn on July 20, 2004 at 11:22 AM (PST)

8

just dropped into the apple store and picked up my 40gig 4th generation. i had purchased a 3rd gen a few days earlier as part of the “cram and jam” campaign (education individuals get $200 back when purchased at the same time as a ibook or powerbook) and they kindly let me exchange it for the new one. That brought the total price for the 40gig 4th generation to $169! what a great deal!

Posted by andrew on July 20, 2004 at 11:29 AM (PST)

9

pretty disappointing, ist it? I know a lot of users expected Apple to come with something VERY new; the only ‘kewl’ thing imho is that u can delete songs from an on the go playlist.

Posted by c.rystal on July 20, 2004 at 11:33 AM (PST)

10

You could already put games on the main menu in the 3Gs..

Posted by adam on July 20, 2004 at 11:36 AM (PST)

11

like the price drop and battery life of the 4th Gen iPod but I dont think I would be running out the door to replace my 3rd gen iPezi

Posted by spence on July 20, 2004 at 11:52 AM (PST)

12

Well for me i think that the price drop is what has finally sealed the deal for me, i best be coppin a Ipod soon. I am just glad i didnt buy a 40 Gig before the 4G came out, i would be kicking myself now.

Posted by pat on July 20, 2004 at 12:59 PM (PST)

13

I like it all.  Yesterday I scrambled to return my 40gig 3g ipod that I had for 10 days.  This new pod is going to be l337.

Posted by berg on July 20, 2004 at 1:14 PM (PST)

14

hah! i returned my 15gig 3g also yesturday. i had it for 12 days, and had 14 to get it back to best buy.. thank you 4g ipod for coming out before it was too late!!

Posted by Steve on July 20, 2004 at 1:48 PM (PST)

15

Does the 4G ipod works with the itrip for 3G ipod?

Thanks!

John

Posted by John on July 20, 2004 at 2:43 PM (PST)

16

John,

Talked with an apple repsentative about this ovrer the phone. He stated (after alot of typing and clicking) that yes the 3Gen ITrip should work with the 4th Gen Ipod.

Posted by StealthAngel on July 20, 2004 at 3:08 PM (PST)

17

Does the new 40 gig have the new click wheel?

Posted by little help on July 20, 2004 at 3:25 PM (PST)

18

While I am always thrilled to hear of news from Apple and especially with the coming week’s Newsweek cover story on the iPod, I’m just not that impressed with the new 4G model.  Why?  Because after all the fuss of moving to separate buttons above the scroll wheel, they have now gone back to almost the original design of having the controls surround the scroll wheel.  They should not have messed that much with the original design, in my humble opinion.  The iPod works well as it was originally designed and although I personally own more than one of them, I don’t think Apple should tamper with its success in design and hone the iPod to death with future design changes.  It works, leave it alone!!

I am happy about the lower prices and longer battery life for the 4G models, though.

Posted by bjbear71 in PA on July 20, 2004 at 3:34 PM (PST)

19

is even the 40gb model 1mm thinner than say, the 30gb 3G model?

Posted by Kevin on July 20, 2004 at 4:03 PM (PST)

20

i am disappointed this is more like a 3.5g but not a 4g!
all but the new wheel and a better battery could have been in a software update!

I am sorry but when my 3g dies im buying a personal-video-player!

Posted by wora on July 20, 2004 at 4:24 PM (PST)