Apple iPod, a revolutionary product of our times, has caught everyone’s attention. With competitors bringing out potential iPod beaters, Apple came up with different up gradations of the ubiquitous iPod in the form of iPod Nano, iPod Shuffle, iPod Touch and the Video iPod. All of these are more or less the same as far as utility is concerned, but it is the additional features that set apart some of them from the rest.
iPod Shuffle is a varient of the initial iPod. This digital audio player is the cheapest in the present iPod family. Being the first iPod to use a flash memory, and having the capability to play songs at random, the company initially marketed the product with the catch line ‘life is random’. The present iPod shuffle model weighs only fifteen grams and is the smallest ever product from Apple.
The first generation iPod Shuffle was introduced in January 2005. It was designed in such a way to facilitate easy shuffling between songs and random selection. A 1GB model can store up to 240 songs. However, it lacks some features like display, scroll wheel, playlist features, games, alarm etc shich are present in other iPods. Processing power is also considerably lower, resulting in it being incapable of playing some kind of audio files. iPod Shuffle comes in several colors, namely blue, silver, pink, purple and green.
iPod Nano is much more advanced than the Shuffle. It is considerably bigger too. The different models come in silver, black, blue, green, orange, pink, purple, silver and yellow colors. Storage capacity ranges from 4 GB, 8 GB to 16 GB.
iPod Nano, however, falls short of iPod Video and iPod Touch in terms of features, storage and performance. But it is well loved by people around the world. It is the largest selling iPod model too. Constant upgradations in the last three years have kept the product keep in tune with the latest trends and technologies. The flash memory of the Nano has no moving parts.
Downloading music from Apple’s own iTunes is very easy in the case of the Nano. It works on the Mac operating system as well as the Microsoft Windows. The iPod Nano comes with some preloaded games too, like Brick, Music Quiz, Parachute and Solitaire. But games can be purchased from iTunes store too. It weighs forty grams, as against fifteen grams of the miniature iPod shuffle. The battery life is a decent forteen hours, while the display is 16 bit color.
You can go on and on blurting about the features and usefulness of an iPod as a music player, but I think it would suffice to say that the iPod is a unique pathbreaking product which has turned the music player industry on its head. iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle are part of the revolution.
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