Saturday, January 27, 2007

The Development of iPod


At present, there are so many ways that technology affected our lifestyle. In the past there are a few ways to listen to the music by radio, cassettes and CDs. It was really uncomfortable to take many CDs and cassettes with you all day. Nowadays, we can put more music in the little modern digital music player called “iPod”. We can put up to 80 GB worth of music in, moreover, iPod can also play video, games and TV shows. I think that these are really interesting, so I will show you about the development of the digital music player from Apple Computer with impressive industrial design called “iPod”.
There are six models of iPod, for the first generation, which are iPod, iPod Mini, iPod Photo, iPod Shuffle, iPod Nano and iPod Video. It represented the perfect compromise between size and storage capacity.
The First generation of iPod, Announced in October 2001. Whose capacity was 5 GB available on the iPod and added the 10GB and 20GB later. It uses the scroll wheel in the first models and change to the touch system in the second models. Then, there were 10GB, 15GB, 20GB and 40GB in the third models. This third models, the button was changed and it changed to click wheel with the 20GB and 40GB in the forth models and 30GB and 80GB in the fifth models.
iPod Mini, which is smaller than the first one was released in January 2004 with blue, green pink, silver and gold. It was storing media on a Micro drive and available in 4GB. The second model of the Mini was available in 4GB and 6GB and the battery life was up to 18 hours
iPod Photo, it was launched in October 2004 with screen that can display color photos. It was storing media on a hard drive and originally available in 40 GB and 60 GB models.
iPod Shuffle, the smallest iPod models which smaller than a pack of gum. It uses the flash memory and can hold up to 240 songs. This model does not have the screen and click wheel, so it can only play the songs randomly (shuffle).
iPod Nano, it was Announced in September 2005. It uses the flash memory like the shuffle, but it was available in 8GB with the 7mm thin. It can show the photo from the 65,536 color screen. The first models of Nano was has just black and white, but the second one has silver, pink, green, blue, and black.
iPod Video, which was introduced in October 2005. This model allowed users to view photos, store and play the video files. It was available in 30GB and 60GB. After that, the 60GB models were also replaced by the 80GB models, which include the brighter screen, a search feature, gapless playback, and longer battery life.
This is shown that the developments of iPod never stop!!!!!!!!!
From the information mentioned above, we can see that iPod is always developing.

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