Thread: iPod touch vs N810 at the Tao of Mac
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sherifnix is offline sherifnix
2008-03-11 , 03:43
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Originally Posted by DJames1 View Post
Ok, I'll take this one.
Me too

And the iPod would be better how?
It doesn't tear or stutter. 1.5mpbs bitrate is fine on the iPod, 700 is about as high as you get on the N800.

640x352 h.264 video is very decent quality, barely less than DVD. This allows you to use one rip which functions on your Xbox 360, PS3, AppleTV, PSP or iPod/iPhone. You tell me, how is that better?

Gapless depends on the player software you use. And as for "OK at best", according to who? I have an iPod and an N800, as well as thousands of dollars of other fine audio equipment, and I detect no advantage between the iPod and the N800.
With some respectable headphones, just $99 sony studio monitors you can hear a reasonable difference. The gapless hasn't been possible so far on the N800, just another "potential" feature that everyone likes to say.

The media management works fine for me. Maybe you're a little too bought into the specific iPod interface?
Maybe I enjoy having my podcasts and music automatically synced, but thats just me.

Not that I've noticed.
This is another one that you'll eventually run into. I don't feel like thread searching, but with the introduction of MicroB and its better support of javascript, there is problem sites that look for mouse downs and what happens when you try to drag is that the javascript intercepts it and you can no longer drag scroll.

I use it with gmail. Works fine for me.
There is at least 2 or 3 threads mentioning the gmail IMAP incompatibility. It typically arises when there is more than 50 messages in the inbox (which isn't much).

As opposed to the iPod, where the subscription music services work so much better? Oh, wait... there aren't any.
True I could argue this, but I'd like a subscription service.

And BTW, nothing stopping you from downloading tunes to your N800. I have thousands of them.
I didn't say that

Nobody stores their music in the proprietary Apple AAC format except iTunes fanboys. I don't have a single AAC file on any of my systems or portable players. And MP3s don't need conversion on any player that I know of, including the N800.
How is AAC proprietary? Nokia, Nintendo, Sony, and Apple use AAC now. That said, I rip in MP3 just to be consistent.

Too iPod-specific, none of my other video players use h.264, so I don't store video in that format.
Xbox, PS3, PSP, Archos, Zune, AppleTV, Nokia Phones (N95, N81 etc...), YouTube...

I guess they forgot that feature on my iPod. But I don't really have much use for a limited composite video output on a portable device when I can so much more easily plug an SD card or USB memory stick into my video system directly.
You don't use it, others do. And its also component with 480p now.