iPod Styles

As cool as the music it plays

iPod

There are three types of iPods currently available, iPod, iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle. The iPod Mini was discontinued in favor of the Nano in 2005. Their owners and the press have called these three a variety of names. iPod video and video iPod have been the common name used to refer to the latest, also known as 5th Generation iPod. It is simply the latest incarnation of the original iPod introduced in November of 2001, just in time for Christmas.

While the controls and the silhouette of the device are similar, the newest iPod differs from the original in two distinct ways. The first is in capacity. The original iPod had a 5GB capacity while the latest iPod is available with either 30 or 60GB storage. To clarify, the original iPod held about 1,000 songs, the newest 60GB model can hold up to 25,000 tunes. While the capacity has changed over the years the price the iPod, thankfully, has remained mostly unchanged.

The second big difference is the display. The original iPod had a monochromatic display that could only be used to browse files. The 5th Generation iPod can be used to view full color video as well as pictures. This means that a new iPod can be used to view music videos, movies and television. Through Apples iTunes content website, television shows can be had for as little as a dollar.

iPod Nano

The Nano was introduced on September 2005. It is the successor to the iPod Mini. The Nano falls between the entry level Shuffle and the regular iPod in Apples music player line up. This little device has a number of things going for it. Like its big brother the iPod, it has a 65,536 color screen that can display photographs. It uses flash memory, which is more durable and jar resistant than the hard drive storage in the iPod. The Nano is about the size of four credit cards stacked together and is 62% smaller by volume than its predecessor the iPod Mini. It is available in both black and white, like the iPod, and is offered in 1 GB, 2 GB, and 4 GB capacities.

iPod Shuffle

The iPod Shuffle is the smallest, simplest and least expensive of the iPod devices. It is about the size of a pack of gum and, depending on the model, holds between 512MB and 1GB of data. The shuffle does not have a screen and has two different ways to playback music. The first is in the order it is loaded and the second, of course, is shuffle. While all of the players have an excellent design profile the simplicity of the shuffle in many ways makes it the best looking and most elegant of the three.

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