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July 20, 2004
Duke University to Give iPods to First Year Students
As if the free Napster story wasn't enough, it now seems that Duke University plans to give 20 GB iPods to all first year attending students on August 19, 2004. Duke says that the iPods are being distributed for "educational use", and will have school related content preloaded on it. I am guessing this will be done via the Notes section on the iPod. Duke plans to have content such as orientation information, the academic calendar, and the ability to download faculty-provided course content all on the iPod. Now, despite how great this is for the students, wouldn't this idea have worked better if they were giving this content out on PDA's rather than iPods?
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Posted by Andru at July 20, 2004 11:29 PM
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Hmm, an iPod to hand out notes to students or a new Treo 600 that also doubles as a phone or a bluetooth/wi-fi enabled Palm/Windows CE PDA?
Which would I choose? I am going Treo 600 all the way.
Posted by: DougKaplan at July 21, 2004 08:42 AM
"For taking notes..." Yeah, right.
=P
Posted by: HectorGearLive at July 23, 2004 08:49 AM
If you want a brick phone maybe treo. Think I would stick with an ipod and let my pen do the note taking.
Posted by: Ryan at July 26, 2004 01:27 PM