HOLY AWESOME, BATMAN.

I wonder if this seals the deal for some people who were waffling about whether or not to get an iPt (potential for VoIPage).

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Let me be the first to say: VoIP!

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psst, internet phone for the win

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Hmm interesting. Does this hold the same for the iphone? Not for Voip functionality, but for allowing a better mic for lecture recording, or better yet concert recording.

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All of you people who think VoIP is going to come to the touch—or the iPhone, for that matter—are just deluding yourselves. Don't you think AT&T & Apple already discussed what would happen if someone got VoIP running on one of these devices? If you think SIM unlocking got Apple to put the smack-down on things, wait to see what happens if a real, GUI-based VoIP app were to appear.
Besides, it'll never be free VoIP, or even Skype. Get over it, already.

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bubba: you are a fool.

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Who cares for Voice IP? Well, maybe later. But what I would like to have (to buy) now! -- would be a headset with a microphone and volume controller. So I can do voice recording on the go *and* have a frigging way to turn down/up the volume without pulling the iTouch out of my pocket. Adding pause/play and skip buttons to the setup would score extra points.

Is this a problem of Apple not licensing the connector? Or what? I *hate* the simple fact that this great device (and I love my iPod touch) is not playing up to what it could be.

I'm sure that the first company offering an extension for the iTouch compromising a simple plug going into the dock connector and containing a microphone and a few buttons and a headset plug could sell these things for at least $50 if not $100 a piece. Let others do the dirty software work (when the SDK is out next year), I don't care. Offer me a plug with a mic and a few buttons and I'll buy it. I nearly *hate* Apple for not including a penny mic and a few buttons in these things. Everyone correcting this gets my love.

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Ahh, for all of you thinking that Apple hates Voices IP and loves the phone companies: I don't think so. I'm quite sure Steve Jobs doesn't like all these cellphone giants. But there's currently no way around them. The iPhone is already stirring up quite a bit of a storm here (look at Europe for details) and this will just get more chaotic over time. These things need a mighty shake-up and they're getting it sooner or later anyway.

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unhunzaa, no mic input for sale yet, but in the meantime here's a remote that will let you control volume, play/pause and skip, for under $7 (free shipping.)
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/09/28/iphone-ipod-touch-remote-control/
https://www.kaidomain.com/WEBUI/ProductDetail.aspx?TranID=84
I ordered one last week.
Apparently there are some others on eBay with a Shuffle-type control pad, but I haven't seen that yet.

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Meh, send me an email when it can copy and paste. ;)

OK, here's my much-less-snarky comment:

Send me an email when it can record audio *and* video. Seriously, Apple, what are you waiting for? iMovie Mobile!! Let's GO!

I don't need DV quality (or even DVD quality) I just can't see buying a device these days that doesn't have a camera that records video. There's no excuse for it--the tech is so cheap.

But great find, Erica--I always love it when hackers find that devices aren't quite as hobbled as their makers would like us to believe.

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Can I just say: The headline is the WORSTEST construction of an English sentence, evar??!

A simple hyphen ("audio-in") would make it so much easier to understand. I honestly could not figure out its meaning for two minutes.

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Mic.

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Bubba, please explain why iPt users getting VoIP over WiFi is a bad thing either for AT&T or Apple.

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Navarro, thank you. Now it makes sense.

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Belkin's TuneTalk does not appear to work :( Gives a warning that device is not supported and if I record anyway I get silence.

PS This is probably not the place for requests, but if someone could make a background app which could map taps and jiggles to commands and allow me to pause/skip while the Touch is in my pocket (based on accelerometer input), I would consider them legendary :)

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um...

http://www.shapeservices.com/en/products/details.php?product=skype&platform=none
yes, it works on the iphone + touch

/audio input would be nice though...

//you're welcome

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Does the iTalk MIC work?

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The iTalk does not work, either through the built-in mic, or the external in. Tried the external with both mic, and line level sources.

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The actual "Made-for-iPod" voice recorders such as the Griffin iTalk and Belkin TuneTalk Stereo will definitely not work for one very simple reason: The authentication chip that they were required to add for 5G support communicates the capabilities of the device. In essence, it says to the iPod: "Hi, I'm a Voice Recorder!" to which the iPod touch simply responds -- "Hey, I don't support you, go away." and disables communication with the device after that point.

So no "official" iPod Dock Connector based recording accessory is going to work, since in order to work with the other iPod models, they need to incorporate an authentication chip that broadcasts their capabilities to the device itself.

This is the same reason why the Nike+ adapter can be used to "cheat" video playback output on the iPod nano, yet it cannot on the iPod classic, since the latter just refuses to talk to the accessory in any meaningful way as soon as it discovers it's unsupported.

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I just hope they don't find out that the iPod touch has Phone hardware as well 8-)

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