Brent's Two Cents

Keeps Gettin' Better

During my morning surfing-session I stumbled across the highly-relevant (at present) iPoding web site. It's another blog-style site that contains information and news about the iPod. The big news today is that the new iPods apparently support audio recording. Although Apple hasn't made it an easily-available feature yet, one unofficial source was quoted as saying that an adapter for line-in recording would be available in a few months.

This would be a great thing, if it were done right. Just about all of the MP3 players I've worked with (even the dinky little 32MB Digisette) supported voice recording. Right now I use my cell phone and voice mail to leave myself the occasional message, but that's suboptimal for many reasons: It costs me the price of a cell phone call, and it takes too long to dial and wait for the message 'beep'. A good design would be a pair of headphones that included a small microphone, and a record button on the wired remote.