While the iPod Photo doesn’t have wireless it does have a color screen with 220 by 176 pixel resolution. The click wheel reviews your photos. It has a 15-hour battery life, downloads photos via iTunes with auto-sync album art. Supports Adobe Album or Elements on the PC. Costs $500 for the 40GB version, $600 for the 60GB version, shipping in 1-2 weeks.
Dock and AV Cable will dump video to a projector or TV. iPod Photo optimizes your photos to fit on a standard (4:3) or widescreen (16:9) TV. The biggest nonsense? No built-in Card slot! Photos from digital cameras can be directly transferred via USB-2 to the Asono Elio 20GB digital music player which also has an SD card slot.
Meanwhile, Sony’s new Walkman NW-E99 and NW-E95 take aim at Apple’s iPod Minis. The new Walkmans offer up to 70 hours of battery life — significantly more than the Mini — though they have less memory than the market leading mid-range players. The devices play tracks in the MP3 format as well as Sony’s proprietary ATRAC format.
Microsoft’s Portable Media Players work with Microsoft’s new Windows Media Player 10 and MSN’s Music Store as well as other music services. The Microsoft devices are similar to Apple’s iPod - with a difference, the Portable Media Players can download and view movies as well as music.
Have Clear Channel WiMax your hot spot with location-specific ads (only kidding). Or not. It’s like MTV.
Photo viewers that run on a PC and generate slide shows include FxFoto, IrfanView and Microsoft’s PhotoStory. Pixelan include 67 pans/zoom moves within any image — just like Photo Story 2, except with video too, using Movie Maker 2. Output movies for PocketPC playback on Media Player 10.
The Resco Pocket Viewer can create slide shows on a PocketPC (with music) while the Pocket-DVD Studio compresses DVDs onto a memory card. The Pocket DivX Player is free. On the Captive Portal menu. Podcast. Yeah, yeah.
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