If You Have an iPod and an iPhone

[hardcle]

How do you use them both? I have a 60GB iPod that I use 6-7 hours a day and I'm planning to purchase a 16GB 3G iPhone on 7/11. I like the idea of only carrying one device, but I also like being able to carry my entire music collection with me, even if 16GB is more than enough for what I'm going to listen to on any given day.

So, I'm curious as to what other people in my situation do. How much do you use your iPod now as compared to before you got your iPhone? Is battery life an issue?

Thanks!

[Germansuplex]

I have found that 8 gigs is far less restricting than I originally thought.

With that said, I still have a 160GB iPod to hold my entire collection. It serves the purpose of having a backup of my entire lossy library, and also gives me the advantage of having all of my music with me and all of my important videos.

With the iPhone, I have probably 75% - 85% of all the music I actually listen to. With the 16gb iPhone 3G, I can see myself using only it and only taking my iPod Classic to work for prolong listening on slow days.

I also like to scrobble my songs to Lastfm., and I am hoping that Mobile Scrobbler makes it to the app store. It's on my jailbroken iPhone right now and it's an incredibly great program. It integrates with the iPhone great and works great. My songs scrobble directly over the iPhone and the only hangup is that Edge is slow. With 3G, songs should scrobble quickly and efficiently with no issue.

So long story short, right now I use both, but when the 3G comes out, I can see myself using it as my primary device.

[Gr8twhitenasty]

Not to take this conversation in a different direction but I was reading somewhere about the iPhone sales possibly cannabilizing iPod sales. Who is really going to carry two devices with them? I know there's a place for both of these devices but not everyone can buy both. I agree with Germansuplex in that most of my on the go listening is done with my phone now instead. I'm interested to see in the long run what the phone will do to the overall sales of the classic/nano lineup.

Getting back to the original post: I think 8GB is plenty for day to day listening. You can fit a lot more music than you would believe in 8GB. The 16gig phone would be plenty for everyday. And if it's not just change it up every couple weeks.

[Dim]

My iPod 5.5G holds all my music while my iPhone only holds about 25%. However, the benefits of using just the phone have caused my iPod to go to the wife because it was collecting dust.

[Andyb7777]

I've never had an iPod but i do have a lot of music in my collection and a very broad taste in music. I've got an 8GB iPhone and find i hae to be very selective in what I put on there. Ususally it's just singles unless there's a particular album track I really like. I have to really love an album for me to put the whole thing on there. I'm currently using about 6.5GB which, with everything else, doesn't leave me a lot of room.

I'm gonna need to upgrade to the 16GB 3G iPhone on friday!

[Surf Monkey]

Not to take this conversation in a different direction but I was reading somewhere about the iPhone sales possibly cannabilizing iPod sales. Who is really going to carry two devices with them?

You're kidding, right?

What did people do BEFORE iPhone? They carried both a phone and an iPod. What do a lot of people do now that iPhone is out? They carry both an iPhone and an iPod.

The bottom line is that for many people, myself included, the iPhone is not a 1:1 replacement for iPod in even the most remote way. iPhone is great for some limited listening and watching, but my music library is far too vast to live on any current or announced iPhone. For me the iPhone is more about connectivity than it is music. I use it to listen to some podcasts and a song or two from time to time but the bulk of my music listening happens with my iPod. Until there's a major breakthrough in the capacity of iPhone (not to mention a serious refinement of the slipshod iTunes implementation on the device) there's no way I can replace my iPod with it.

[Dr.Gonzo]

I probably won't even use my iPhone for music at all, a few podcasts and that's about it. It will contain Photos, contacts, address book and all the important stuff. I have an 80GB that is about halfway full and may purchase a 160GB in the not too distant future for my entire music collection. What 'music' the iphone will likely be used for is internet radio like 'Flytunes.' The one device the iphone is likely to replace for internet and email purposes is my macbook.