Two Questions I Havent Seen Answered Yet
So this thing gets 22 hours of audio playback and 5 hours of video, but what's the battery life like while connected with WiFi? Would it be wise to expect a few hours at most?
Also I'm not sure how the touch was constructed, or any other limitations, but what's the possibility of popping it open and adding a larger capacity flash chip? Surely you guys with iPhones must have messed around a little. I'm surprised I haven't heard much about this, has this idea already been shot down?
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Ayvee] at [2007-11-11 20:22:14]
# 1 Re: Two Questions I Havent Seen Answered Yet
Battery life if you were actually playing music over WiFi would probably be significantly shorter than advertised.
However, simply leaving WiFi enabled should not have any impact on the published battery life, as this would have already been factored into the specifications (the device very likely runs with WiFi always enabled in its default configuration).
As for upgrading the flash, the problem is that flash chips are usually tightly integrated right onto the main circuit boards, which means some significantly-heavy soldering would be involved. It's theoretically possible but is FAR more work than simply upgrading a hard drive.
# 2 Re: Two Questions I Havent Seen Answered Yet
Ahh, thanks! If you check out the tech specs on battery life it says "all settings were default except that Ask to Join Networks was turned off." So I wasn't sure if that meant it was connected whenever possible, or always disconnected.
And I suppose we'll have to wait for the release to see how practical it will be to upgrade capacity then, or if it should even bother to be attempted...
Ayvee at 2007-11-15 12:50:53 >
# 3 Re: Two Questions I Havent Seen Answered Yet
All the "Ask to Join Networks" means is whether or not the iPod touch actually proactively looks for WiFi networks and prompts you to join them when it finds an open one.
This could have an impact on battery life, since with this setting off, it will only scan for networks when you actually go into the WiFi settings.
As for capacity increases, people have already looked into doing this with the iPod nano and iPhone. It is very impractical because of the integrated flash chipset, and I doubt the touch will be any different in that regard.
