No fire wire function anymore?

Hello,
I just bought the new Ipod 80 gig,
and tbh I'm a bit disappointed in some changes.
First of all, no firewire transfer is possible anymore. (I had a 3rd gen Ipod before I always used firewire it goes waaaaaay faster than USB 2.0)
Or is there some other way that makes the Ipod possible to transfer with firewire? Cuz if not so I rly think the quality of the new Ipod is going down instead of up...
And I think its a bit weird that you buy an Ipod and no real charger is included...(unless you connect it on your computer)
Tom B

There is no way to use firewire for transfer on the video iPod, either the 5G or 5.5G. This has not been available on any of the iPod videos.
TTFN
Doc

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