A big argument is going on at the moment between Apple and wildlife defenders Greenpeace. The subject? Apple iPhone being toxic or not, reports our sister site iPhone World.
According to a Greenpeace report iPhone headphones cables appear to have 1.5% level of Phthalates (Wiki) — a toxic substance used in nail polish, caulk, adhesives, or other miscellaneous items that you’d normally not ingest.
But an Apple spokesperson said in response to this matter that “Like all Apple products worldwide, iPhone complies with RoHS [Restriction of Hazardous Substances], the world’s toughest restrictions on toxic substances in electronics. As we have said, Apple will voluntarily eliminate the use of PVC and BFRs by the end of 2008.”
At the same time it’s unknown whether the Apple iPod Touch, which should normally have the same headsets and internal components as the iPhone is suffering from the same problems, since not Greenpeace, nor no one else bothered to test it.
To all those concerned with iPod Touch models’ future: analysts from iSuppli predict that Apple will have sold 66 million units of iPod Touch and iPod Nano models within 2 years.
According to iSuppli’s projections, Apple will ship 20 million iPods of these two models by the end of the year.
At the same time, next year the same iSuppli expects an increase in demand for these models, yielding additional 40 million sold units for Apple in 2008.
iPod Touch is expected to be a hot selling item this holidays season, largely in part due to the fact that iPhone provided sufficient hype for touchscreen technology. Considering that not everyone wants to trade in his current phone for a contract with ATT, iPod Touch could become very popular as an alternative to the iPhone or an older generation iPod.
When the iPod touch (3 mice) was first released, some models offered very dark or out-of-contrast video performance. But even touch models that did not have display problems couldn’t match the brightness and clean contrast of the iPhone. Apple released the iPod touch 1.1.1 update that fixed the former problem, but, regrettably, not the latter.
But now evidence is mounting that hard drive-based iPods may be on their way to extinction. At least that’s one conclusion you might draw from an analysis of the components inside the latest iPod classic (the sixth iPod model to feature a hard drive) by market research firm iSuppli.
As it’s known, the Apple iPod Touch, the iPhone-like touchscreen Wi-Fi version of the iPod media players family, is lacking in several features like image syncing, notes, lack of games, disk mode, and the ability to add or edit calendar entries.
Apparently, a MacRumors forum-goer named DavidJearly directly emailed Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO and head-honcho. Although not answering all of David’s questions about the previously mentioned lack of features, he did supposedly make a comment on the calendar features not working correctly as well as reasons as to why there are no games. Here shown is the email:
David,
Nothing can be done about the games. The new iPod touch is a completely different animal inside than the old iPods and the games just don’t translate. The inability to edit and add calendar events is a bug that will be fixed in a future software update. (This article is not over yet. Click here to continue reading.)
