Comments on: The "Good Enough" Test: Flip vs. Apple iPod Nano http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090914/the-good-enough-test-flip-vs-apple-ipod-nano/ by Peter Kafka Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:52:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: iPod Nano versus Flip SD | mail2web.com Blog http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090914/the-good-enough-test-flip-vs-apple-ipod-nano/comment-page-1/#comment-76581 iPod Nano versus Flip SD | mail2web.com Blog Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:43:38 +0000 http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/?p=10891#comment-76581 [...] P.Kafka over at AllthingsD largely agrees, suggesting that video produced by the nano 5G is even worse [...] [...] P.Kafka over at AllthingsD largely agrees, suggesting that video produced by the nano 5G is even worse [...]

]]> By: What’s the Video Quality of the New iPod nano vs. the Flip Ultra? « http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090914/the-good-enough-test-flip-vs-apple-ipod-nano/comment-page-1/#comment-10516 What’s the Video Quality of the New iPod nano vs. the Flip Ultra? « Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:27:39 +0000 http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/?p=10891#comment-10516 [...] AllThingsDigital’s Peter Kafka points out: But I don’t think the gap between the two cameras is big enough to help Flip. If you’re really [...] [...] AllThingsDigital’s Peter Kafka points out: But I don’t think the gap between the two cameras is big enough to help Flip. If you’re really [...]

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]]> By: services.mail2web.com | Gadget Blog | http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090914/the-good-enough-test-flip-vs-apple-ipod-nano/comment-page-1/#comment-10183 services.mail2web.com | Gadget Blog | Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:43:47 +0000 http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/?p=10891#comment-10183 [...] P.Kafka over at AllthingsD largely agrees, suggesting that video produced by the nano 5G is even worse [...] [...] P.Kafka over at AllthingsD largely agrees, suggesting that video produced by the nano 5G is even worse [...]

]]> By: Fred Hamranhansenhansen http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090914/the-good-enough-test-flip-vs-apple-ipod-nano/comment-page-1/#comment-10113 Fred Hamranhansenhansen Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:59:25 +0000 http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/?p=10891#comment-10113 > The Nano is great, but it’s > only a matter of time before > the iPod Touch makes it > irrelevant for video and > stills (which the Nano can’t > do.) If you wait for tech, though, you wait forever. There may never be an iPod touch with the nano-style camera because it wouldn't be able to run all the still photography -related apps in the App Store, and none of the barcode-reading type apps. It would add a 3rd camera to iPhone OS when it may be ideal to move all the devices to the 3GS-style camera instead. The "technical problems" rumored to be attached to the iPod touch with camera may just be that they decided they wanted at least a 3GS-spec camera and there isn't one that fits yet. The 2010 iPhone may be thinner and require a newer, thinner, 3GS-style camera, and then they may put that into iPod touch in September 2010. > The Nano is great, but it’s
> only a matter of time before
> the iPod Touch makes it
> irrelevant for video and
> stills (which the Nano can’t
> do.)

If you wait for tech, though, you wait forever. There may never be an iPod touch with the nano-style camera because it wouldn’t be able to run all the still photography -related apps in the App Store, and none of the barcode-reading type apps. It would add a 3rd camera to iPhone OS when it may be ideal to move all the devices to the 3GS-style camera instead. The “technical problems” rumored to be attached to the iPod touch with camera may just be that they decided they wanted at least a 3GS-spec camera and there isn’t one that fits yet.

The 2010 iPhone may be thinner and require a newer, thinner, 3GS-style camera, and then they may put that into iPod touch in September 2010.

]]> By: Ralph cohen http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090914/the-good-enough-test-flip-vs-apple-ipod-nano/comment-page-1/#comment-10106 Ralph cohen Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:56:47 +0000 http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/?p=10891#comment-10106 The Nano looks like a very poor substitute for the Flip for anyone interested in capturing video. The Nano capture is less sharp and has muddier colors and excessive purple fringing that makes the Flip look like an HD camera by comparison. Anyone interested in capturing video that looks somewhat true to life should stick to the Flip even if they also own one of the new Nanos. The Nano looks like a very poor substitute for the Flip for anyone interested in capturing video. The Nano capture is less sharp and has muddier colors and excessive purple fringing that makes the Flip look like an HD camera by comparison. Anyone interested in capturing video that looks somewhat true to life should stick to the Flip even if they also own one of the new Nanos.

]]> By: Mac Beach http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090914/the-good-enough-test-flip-vs-apple-ipod-nano/comment-page-1/#comment-10099 Mac Beach Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:51:23 +0000 http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/?p=10891#comment-10099 This is treadmill marketing. I prefer the theory that they put the camera in the Nano because at the lower prices everyone would have zoomed past it to the Touch otherwise. Microsoft does this with the dozen versions of Windows, forcing users to choose between version that are optimized for games vs business use and causing families who can afford it to buy two computers when one would probably do. All these small cameras are for Ad Hoc viding anyway, and as you say, the poorer one is also "good enough". On the other hand I won't be buying yet another Nano just because it has a camera, where I would have spent the extra for a Touch that had one (and presumably a better one). So Apple swings and misses yet again where I am concerned. Question is will Cisco continue to improve the Flip taking it into higher realms of quality that the pinhole lens of the iPods can't "touch"? I would bet so. This is treadmill marketing. I prefer the theory that they put the camera in the Nano because at the lower prices everyone would have zoomed past it to the Touch otherwise.

Microsoft does this with the dozen versions of Windows, forcing users to choose between version that are optimized for games vs business use and causing families who can afford it to buy two computers when one would probably do.

All these small cameras are for Ad Hoc viding anyway, and as you say, the poorer one is also “good enough”.

On the other hand I won’t be buying yet another Nano just because it has a camera, where I would have spent the extra for a Touch that had one (and presumably a better one). So Apple swings and misses yet again where I am concerned.

Question is will Cisco continue to improve the Flip taking it into higher realms of quality that the pinhole lens of the iPods can’t “touch”?

I would bet so.

]]> By: Mitch Stone http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090914/the-good-enough-test-flip-vs-apple-ipod-nano/comment-page-1/#comment-10096 Mitch Stone Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:18:49 +0000 http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/?p=10891#comment-10096 Because this is Apple we're talking about, we'll probably never know whether the (apparent) deletion of a camera in the touch was a technical or a marketing decision, or maybe some of both. Personally I won't be interested in these micro-cams until they can do 720p video. Any less seems like a step backwards. Because this is Apple we’re talking about, we’ll probably never know whether the (apparent) deletion of a camera in the touch was a technical or a marketing decision, or maybe some of both. Personally I won’t be interested in these micro-cams until they can do 720p video. Any less seems like a step backwards.

]]> By: Eric Welch http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090914/the-good-enough-test-flip-vs-apple-ipod-nano/comment-page-1/#comment-10092 Eric Welch Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:07:55 +0000 http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/?p=10891#comment-10092 They've torn down the new iPod touch and found not only the space for a camera inside (boosting credibility of rumors that a flawed camera bound for the iPod Touch was pulled at the last minute), but that the new Touch also has hardware for 802.11n. The Nano is great, but it's only a matter of time before the iPod Touch makes it irrelevant for video and stills (which the Nano can't do.) They’ve torn down the new iPod touch and found not only the space for a camera inside (boosting credibility of rumors that a flawed camera bound for the iPod Touch was pulled at the last minute), but that the new Touch also has hardware for 802.11n. The Nano is great, but it’s only a matter of time before the iPod Touch makes it irrelevant for video and stills (which the Nano can’t do.)

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