The Apple Company first released the new MP3 player which was called iPod about seven years ago. After releasing, the iPod quickly became the most popular portable music player that everyone wanted to own. From the past until now, Apple continues developing iPod’s design and its capacity as well as its ability to make iPod a more powerful music player. Besides, iPod evolution is also interesting, it has grown step by step from the first generation to the fifth generation by having some additional new things on each time development.
The first generation of iPod was released in 2001 on October 23 which was the white-and-stainless steel iPod. Also, iPod’s mechanical scroll wheel under its screen was used to choose your music in the list, indeed the scroll wheel moved with your finger. In this generation, the iPod’s storage started from 5 GB, enough to store about 1,000 songs. Although some MP3 player could hold more than 1,000 songs, those were not portable. The first-generation iPod’s, however, connected to Mac only, a Window version was still not available. Later in 2002, Apple released the second generation of iPod on July 17, but they had not changed a lot in this generation. In fact, the only change was from its mechanical scroll wheel to touch-sensitive scroll wheel, and its capacity was now available up to 20GB. For both generations, their battery life time lasted for about 10 hours.
The introduction of the third-generation iPod’s was in 2003, on April 28. Apple made so much change to iPod in this generation especially on its design. The most fundamental redesign was above the scroll wheel, Apple introduced four buttons which resided between the iPod’s screen and its steel wheel so now you can use those buttons to manage your music easier. Another change was on its screen, the iPod’s screen was brighter, and also its background was reflexive, so it is easier to read in almost any light. The other change on its design was that the touch sensitive control worked more smoothly. Moreover, the iPod’s storage was increased to keep more music up to 40GB. Nevertheless, the battery life time was reduced to only last for about 8 hours. Anyway, one new improvement remained is that the iPod’s third-generation was now Window supported, so Apple gave a chance to Window users to try iPod also!!!
In 2004, the fourth generation of iPod was released on July 29, the generation for the one who like to take a photo!!! Apple amazed us by sending the new iPod photo which was the first iPod with color screen to the market. Furthermore, the photo addressed in the device’s built-in, 2-inch LCD screen. As with its color screen, iPod provided you such a great way to view album art on the screen. However, one minor point is that you could only sync photos from just a single computer. This is really not comfortable for us!!! In this generation, iPod’s capacity increased from 8GB to 15 GB as well as the battery life time which lasted for 12 hours, this is longer than any other previous generation.
The last generation that I would like to share you, but still not the last generation for iPod, is the fifth-generation iPod’s. Actually, iPod’s design stayed the same, not much changes, yet there was an interesting additional change on its feature. On October 12, 2005 the new iPod with the ability of video playback came out!!! The video looked excellent on the new 2.5 inch screen and its shape was also thinner than other previous generation, but the height and the width were not changed. Generally, your video can be put on the iPod, but iPod required the special program to convert the file to iPod function. About the video specs, video file format supported MOV, MP4 and M4V. Although iPod’s screen was not big, everything on the screen looked shape and smooth. In the fifth generation, the iPod’s capacity was available up to 80 GB, and battery life time also updated to 20 hours.
In summation, each year, Apple releases a new version of iPod to the market. At the same time, each year, more and more people pay their attention on iPod. The general trend has been toward smaller factors and higher capacities. In addition, iPod makes many people impressed through its design, its feature and its capability. Also, I believe that iPod touch people not only outside but also inside. Now, no one can say that I do not know ‘iPod,’ the most famous portable music player in the world!!!
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