A fifth-generation refresh added a video camera and a speaker. The second and third-generation iPod Touch models offered a new tapering design and speaker, with increasingly more powerful hardware that would trickle down from improvements to the iPhone. The fourth-generation Touch would further slim down the design, along with adding both front- and rear-facing cameras for FaceTime support and a Retina display.
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Users navigated songs with a mechanical scroll wheel on a monochrome LCD display and had a 5GB hard drive that filled up using a FireWire port. July: The second-generation iPod gained a solid-state Touch Wheel and contained double the space.
April: The iPod got a big third-generation makeover in , with the addition of four buttons that glowed red and a new connector, the pin dock connector. Windows users got their first taste of the iPod via MusicMatch Jukebox, opening up the iPod to a whole new audience.
Photos appeared in bypixel resolution. January: The first-generation iPod Shuffle hit the dancefloor at the beginning of The fifth-generation iPod was the first model to play video and was very well received. It had a larger, sharper colour screen, slimmer form factor and better battery life. An 80GB version was later released and included, among other things, a library-search feature, and was accompanied by fifth-generation iPod price cuts across the board. It was over a year before Apple took the mask off its next iPod.
In September , the second-generation nano was launched. The new nano had a trendy anodised aluminium casing and came in five colours. The hysteric jubilation for the new iPod nano notwithstanding, Apple undid its trenchcoat again in September and flashed the world with another titchy member: the second-generation iPod shuffle. Shuffle 2. Some argue the new model had a clip; others claim it was a clip. The other Also present was the nano-esque anodised aluminium casing and the choice of several colours.
Then, in September , we had a plethora of new iPods to choose from. The iPod touch became the 'true' video iPod the world had been sweatily dreaming about. It brought the best mobile browsing experience to palms everywhere, offering the iPhone -like iPod experience many people had been holding out for, and eventually got 32GB of memory.
Its partner in crime, the iPod classic, was also introduced in September. It was essentially a revamped, tripped-out fifth-generation iPod with more go-faster stripes than we care to count, and up to GB of storage. A third-generation iPod nano with "a little video for everyone" was also introduced, complete with a fat form factor to make the chunkiest of us feel slightly better about ourselves.
Spy-shot photographs of this nano leaked before the official announcement was made, leading the blogosphere to worry in advance that the nano was to become all dumpy.
No one seemed that bothered once it was released though. A pink 8GB model was released in the following January. Finally, a new shuffle came out And a small 's' to match its lower-case siblings, spelling fans.
The September line-up vanquished Dumpy McFatnano to the rotting cesspits of silicon hell, introducing a fourth-generation nano with the original tall form factor of earlier models. It retained video playback and the same screen as the chubby version, but now offered an internal accelerometer, 16GB of memory and the new Genius playlist functionality. It was also the first model to introduce spoken menus for vision-impaired users.
We were disappointed to see the GB iPod classic was wiped from existence this year, along with the 80GB model. Screen Clickwheel models : x pixels; 2 inch; Grayscale iPod Photo : x pixels; 2 inch; 65, colors. Connectors Dock Connector. Battery Life Clickwheel : 12 hours iPod Photo : 15 hours. Released : January Discontinued : July Apple is known for not being interested in licensing its technology.
For instance, it was one of the only major computer companies never to have licensed its hardware or software to "clone" computer makers who created compatible and competing Macs. Well, almost; That changed briefly in the s, but as soon as Steve Jobs returned to Apple, he ended that practice.
Because of this, you might expect that Apple would not have been interested in licensing the iPod or allowing anyone else to sell a version of it. Perhaps because the company had learned from its failure to license the Mac OS some observers think that Apple would have a much larger computer market share in the '80s and '90s if it had done so or perhaps because it wanted to expand possible sales, Apple licensed the iPod to Hewlett-Packard HP in On January 8, , HP announced that it would begin selling its own version of the iPod—basically, it was a standard iPod with the HP logo on it.
It sold this iPod for a while and even launched a TV advertising campaign for it. After that, no other company ever licensed the iPod or really any hardware or software from Apple. Released : Oct. The 5th Generation iPod improved on the iPod Photo by adding the ability to play videos on its 2. It came in two colors, sported a smaller Clickwheel, and had a flat face, instead of the rounded ones used on previous models.
By this point, videos were available at the iTunes Store for use with the iPod Video. Colors White Black. Screen x pixels 2. Weight 4. Released : Sept. The iPod Classic a. It was also the final iPod from the original line. When Apple discontinued the device in , smartphones including iOS-based devices like the iPhone dominated the market and made standalone MP3 players irrelevant.
It was renamed the iPod Classic to distinguish it from other new iPod models introduced at the time, including the iPod touch. The iPod Classic plays music, audiobooks, and videos, and adds the CoverFlow interface to the standard iPod line. The CoverFlow interface debuted on Apple's portable products on the iPhone in summer Curious how this final version of the iPod Classic compared to the final version of other iPod models?
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