Apple iPod Update Increases Battery Life

hhoor writes "Apple has released iPod Software 1.2.6. According to Apple, 'After updating the iPod, customers can expect at least 10 days of standby battery life on a full charge.' So maybe now it's really time to buy one."

Holy Crap

[Oculus Habent]

5.2 MB! As if that's not crazy, there's a Gzip file that expands to 51 MB inside that. Most of it seems to be absorbed in different languages. That's 8-12 songs worth of space, though.

Also, couldn't this have been available via Software Update? I don't spend much time at the iPod homepage. I suppose not everyone needs it, but couldn't there be some way of telling if you ever had an iPod connected? Wishful thinking, maybe.

Re:Odd statement hhoor

[galaxy300]

Newer iPods use touchpads instead of mechanical wheels.

Re:What happened to the missing versions

[tuxedobob]

My guess would be that they were internal releases which were not made public. It happens sometimes.

anyone else have poor linux compat with the iPod?

[TheGratefulNet]

I bought an ipod with the sole intention of trying to get it to work with linux. I run the latest stable 2.4.20 kernel and my firewire stuff works with all my drives (as best as FW -can- with linux, but that's another story).

I can see the files when I mount the ipod and copy them across ok - I think. but when I play them, the file sizes are wrong and so a song that says its 30minutes (unlikely) cuts off after a few minutes and some songs that are long cut off too short! weird.

so I returned it. it appears that for me, at least, ipod/linux is not nearly ready for prime time. too bad.

Re:Why does the iPod have no off switch?

[exp(pi*sqrt(163))]

Well blow me down with a feather - I didn't know about that!

But as we all know it doesn't really switch off the iPod. It's still consuming battery power at a prodigious rate. I want a real off button so I can leave my iPod off for a month and expect it to work the moment I switch it on. Why can't it just dump out its state to disk and shut down for real?