[olistic]

Hello!
Imagine a future version of iPhone, or iTouch, with incorporated Microphone input minijack?
It would multiply enormously the applications for these devices!
- Professional recorder if a good microphone is plugged in.
- It would be the only ultra-compact recorder for musicians. With an appropriate software it could be converted even into multi-track recorder!
- DJ could plug an external "music source" and, with an appropriate software use the device as DJ Desk!

I would like to open this new discussion subject in order to collect different opinions concerning this topic.

Participate!

[middi]

well the mic input is there

its on the headphone jack so if you were willing to butcher your headset and solder a new female jack onto the mic wire/wires and discard the speaker ones the technology is there then its just writing a program

[olistic]

It is not to the same to use the output channel as an input channel. It not straight forward! I am talking about a standard and a professional solution...

[E-Dragon]

You can use it as a voice recorder, with the ringtone converter app... It has a record funtion granted it's not high end, but if you are talking that then the iPhone dose not really have the space (even at 16gigs) for a full out multi track recorder... Example:
I just converted a 3.5 second MP3 file to 192000Hz x 32bit its size is 5.3mb.. To compair:
the same file in MP3 is only 6.01kb.. So yea, you could record two or maybe three average length songs, but not whole album.. At least not in a format you can save as a multi-track.....