iPod photo - bring your photos with you

We Americans are great at one thing: carrying pictures of our loved ones with us. While we may not take as many pictures as the Japanese, we do carry them around a whole lot. I have seen both men and women of all ages going ga-ga over pictures of their loved ones, particularly children. How many times have I been in a conference room with very senior level executives who supposedly take decisions about the future of this world and then one of these gray-haired men will take out the picture of his grand-daughter and everything will come to a stop till everyone has had a chance to take a look?

So Apple has heard what we all wanted? A way to carry our photos with us wherever we go. The new iPod Photo can carry as many as 25,000 photos. I am not sure that I have that many photos yet despite the fact that my digital camera goes with me everywhere. Oh, don't think that iPod Photo does not include your songs. It does. Actually 15,000 of them. You will have a total memory of 60GB which is way more than most of the computers people have.

Using the slideshow mode, you can actually show the photos to everyone around you or just admire them as you spend some quite time thinking of the loved ones in your life.

It is indeed a little expensive, though but you might need to think a bit but as my friends at MasterCard would say, the experience of watching your loved ones on the screen wherever you go is "priceless."

There is one more reason I like iPod Photo. Those of us who are into blogs and in particular photo blogs will find it to be a handy way to take their pictures with them and be able to upload the pictures to their blog even from an Internet cafe.

The next thing I want Mr. Steve Jobs: an iPod Photo with an integrated digital camera.

By Pierre Coda

Photo courtesy: Apple