Wednesday, June 6, 2007

What IS an ipod? Part 1

Ipod. What is it? Aside from completely amazing?

In this humble blogger's opinion, it is the greatest mp3/video player on the market today. This neat little gadget has gone through many stages... and with each release, it just keeps getting better.

Let's start way back in October of 2001. The first generation ipods were released and instantly became a hit. The main physical difference with the first gen ipods is the click wheel. On this one, it actually spins, rather than being soft rubber that you motion your finger around in a circle to use. It also had four buttons located around the wheel. It did not have a colour screen. It had a memory size of 5gb. Now that doesn't seem like much now that we have those big beautiful 80gb pods... but at the time it was freakin' amazing.

In March of 2002, they expanded the memory to 10gb. This was just the start.

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