CNET NEWS ARTICLE: Video iPods on the Horizon!

Imagine: instead of carrying around a Palm pilot for your contacts, notes, etc. and an iPod for tunes, you have a PDA with a 40 GB hard drive for storing all sorts of stuff. Granted, there are numerous issues they'd have to work out, but you start eliminating the clutter from your belt. And if it doubles (or would it triple at this point?) as a cell phone...

However, Apple has said repeatedly that this will not happen, and the iPod will remain a music player.

Fahrv: The iPod already has, what, a date book I think? If they gave it a full-device color screen, it would be a lot easier to use. And they could add an address book and a note pad as well, to make it more organized. But wait, with all that input you'd be doing, you'd need a better way to put in text, so it'd have to have handwriting recognition. Oh wait—now it's a PDA with a hard drive! Whatever shall we do? :rolleyes:
 
it already has a date book and contacts all of which are synced from your iCal and Address book on the machine. There is no way to add anything without a computer.

and it should stay that way. the iPod should remain simple and "view only"

A touch screen is just another evolution of the direction apple has already taken with the iPod. It started out with buttons and a moving scroll wheel. they changed it to have a touch scroll wheel and sensors for the buttons - less moving parts.
with the iPod mini, they put the buttons behind the scroll wheel. So why not put all of the controls "under" the screen and make the screen bigger?
 
Because—oh no, here it comes! It's devouring my iPod! Mommy, there's a PDA loose in the house! :p
 
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