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I realised you've already ruled out the full-size ipods as too bulky - but a thought that crosses my mind once in a while, is that given the number of aftermark

by soneil 3y ago

I realised you've already ruled out the full-size ipods as too bulky - but a thought that crosses my mind once in a while, is that given the number of aftermarket parts for 5G/6G iPods - I'm surprised no-one's come up with an aftermarket logic board. My desired feature set otherwise doesn't differ too much from yours. Flac, BT for headphones, wifi to sync (from something that isn't itunes), support for larger sdcards, and maybe charging over anything but the 30pin. And then that one annoying bug - it'd be nice if 'shuffle all' didn't internally create a playlist that contained every song, creating an artificial limit on how many tracks can be used because that playlist fills the ram. But what the full-size ipod really benefits from at the moment is aftermarket parts - chassis, shell, screen, touchwheel, batteries, etc. The logic board is really the only supply-constrained part left, and just addressing that one part cuts down the manufacturing dramatically. Unfortunately the Nano doesn't garner the same aftermarket. Largely because it's dangerous & near-impossible to remove the innards once the battery starts swelling - so the biggest driver to rebuild it comes hand-in-hand with the inability to do so.

sandreas 3y ago
Yes, exactly. The device that comes closest to what I would say feature complete is the HiBy M300 for 200$. It has Android 13, modern specs and most important support for OMTP headphone remote control (Sony A306 does not have this). But the M300 is way to clunky for my taste (4" display, pretty big device) and even more important: No android app fits my needs in terms of stability and reaction timings. However, I found a way to mod one of my iPod Nano 7g (i got plenty) by milling out the aluminium backplate to fit in a 600mah iPod Mini battery. It's too thick, but width and height fit perfectly. With a protecting silicon case I now (kind of) probably own the only iPod nano with replaceable battery (without taking it apart completely). This is also kind of dangerous, because the battery has no real protection except the silicone case and as we all know lithium batteries are the worst when penetrated or bent. I'm working on this but still: 600mah is nearly 3 times the capacity of the original one :-) There is also recent progress in hacking the iPod Nano 6g / 7g, but I think nobody cares any more... see https://github.com/CUB3D/ipod_sun https://github.com/CUB3D/ipod_sun for details.

by soneil 3y ago

sandreas 3y ago

Yes, exactly. The device that comes closest to what I would say feature complete is the HiBy M300 for 200$. It has Android 13, modern specs and most important support for OMTP headphone remote control (Sony A306 does not have this). But the M300 is way to clunky for my taste (4" display, pretty big device) and even more important: No android app fits my needs in terms of stability and reaction timings. However, I found a way to mod one of my iPod Nano 7g (i got plenty) by milling out the aluminium backplate to fit in a 600mah iPod Mini battery. It's too thick, but width and height fit perfectly. With a protecting silicon case I now (kind of) probably own the only iPod nano with replaceable battery (without taking it apart completely). This is also kind of dangerous, because the battery has no real protection except the silicone case and as we all know lithium batteries are the worst when penetrated or bent. I'm working on this but still: 600mah is nearly 3 times the capacity of the original one :-) There is also recent progress in hacking the iPod Nano 6g / 7g, but I think nobody cares any more... see https://github.com/CUB3D/ipod_sun https://github.com/CUB3D/ipod_sun for details.