Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 2nd Apr 2009 11:45 UTC
Geeks.com, home of cheap iPods, sent us in the 4th Gen Apple iPod Nano to take it for a spin. Let's see how it stacks up against the 1st generation Nano that we also happen to have available in our lab, and the iPod Touch.
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RE[5]: I just advised a friend not to buy one
by darknexus on Thu 2nd Apr 2009 15:20
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I'm aware of what they are and the principle behind them. What is not revealed at the moment is exactly what files get generated for which audio files. It is not the same each time you synch, and the files appear to be given random names, and their associated entries in the database haven't yet been completely isolated. And actually, Rockbox had this feature long before Apple decided to overcomplicate it.
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Uh, speaking menus are just audio files rendered using the OSes’ text-to-speech abilities and then copied to the device. The iPod is not synthesising the speech itself!
There’s nothing special about this feature at all, it’s been possible to do for all players since ~2001, but nobody seems to have thought of it until now.