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iPod UK
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Apple iPod
Available in:
30GB : 7,500 songs
2.5-inch color display
136 g
61,8 x 103,5 x 11 mm
80GB : 20,000 songs
2.5-inch color display
157 g
61,8 x 103,5 x 14 mm
Black or White
Now up to 20,000 songs
Put your entire music library into your
pocket. Plus carry movies, TV shows, videos,
games, podcasts, audiobooks, photos, and more.
60% brighter display
Your album art, videos, photos, calendars, and
now games will come alive with vibrant color
thanks to the 60% brighter display.
Up to 20 hours of
battery life
Enjoy up to 20 hours of audio playback or up
to 6 ½ hours of video playback between
charges.
New iPod software features
Now quickly find the songs, podcasts, or
audiobooks you want to hear with the new
search feature. And listen to music seamlessly
with automatic gapless playback. |
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Apple iPod
Nano Available in:
2GB 500 songs
4GB 1,000 songs
8GB 2,000 songs
Up to 2,000 songs
Choose a 2GB, 4GB, or 8GB iPod nano and carry
your favorite music everywhere — plus podcasts,
audiobooks, photos, contacts, calendar, and
files.
Sleek anodized aluminum
With its new anodized aluminum enclosure and
rounded edges, iPod nano looks as dazzling as
it feels. And it's sleeker than ever — 3.5
inches tall, 1.6 inches wide, and just over
quarter of an inch thin.
iTunes
Available as a free download, iTunes makes it
easy to browse and buy millions of songs,
audiobooks, podcasts, TV shows, movies, and
games on the iTunes Store. Plus you can import
your own music, manage your whole media
library, and sync your iPod with ease. |
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Apple iPod
Shuffle 1GB
Born to be worn
The world's most wearable music player just
got even more wearable. Choose from five
brilliant colors to make your musical fashion
statement.
Remix and match
With iTunes autofill, iPod shuffle can deliver
a new musical experience every time you sync.
For even more randomness, you can shuffle
songs with the slide of a switch.
Everything is easy
Charge and sync with the included USB dock.
Operate its controls with one hand. Enjoy up
to 12 hours straight of skip-free music
playback.
Clip and go
Thanks to the simple built-in clip, you can
carry up to 240 of your favorite songs on your
shirt sleeve, purse strap, waistband,
anywhere. |
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iPod came from
Apple's digital hub strategy, when the company
began creating software for the growing market
of digital devices being purchased by
consumers. Digital cameras, camcorders and
organizers had well-established mainstream
markets, but the company found existing
digital music players "big and clunky or small
and useless" with user interfaces that were
"unbelievably awful", so Apple decided to
develop its own. Apple's hardware engineering
chief, Jon Rubinstein, assembled a team of
engineers to design it, including Tony Fadell,
hardware engineer Michael Dhuey, and design
engineer Jonathan Ive, with Stan Ng as the
marketing manager. The product was developed
in less than a year and unveiled on 23 October
2001. CEO Steve Jobs announced it as a
Mac-compatible product with a 5 GB hard drive
that put "1000 songs in your pocket."
Uncharacteristically, Apple did not develop
iPod's software entirely in-house. Apple
instead used PortalPlayer's reference platform
which was based on 2 ARM cores. The platform
had rudimentary software running on a
commercial microkernel embedded operating
system. PortalPlayer had previously been
working on an IBM-branded MP3 player with
Bluetooth headphones.Apple contracted another
company, Pixo, to help design and implement
the user interface, under the direct
supervision of Steve Jobs. Once established,
Apple continued to refine the software's look
and feel. Starting with the iPod mini, the
Chicago font was replaced with Espy Sans.
Later iPods switched fonts again to Podium
Sans — a font similar to Apple's corporate
font Myriad. iPods with color displays then
adopted some Mac OS X themes like Aqua
progress bars, and brushed metal in the lock
interface.
The name iPod was proposed by Vinnie Chieco, a
freelance copywriter, who (with others) was
called by Apple to figure out how to introduce
the new player to the public. After Chieco saw
a prototype, he thought of the movie 2001: A
Space Odyssey and the phrase "Open the pod bay
door, Hal!", which refers to the white EVA
Pods of the Discovery One spaceship. Apple had
previously registered the name "iPod" for
Internet kiosks, but never put it to use. |
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