| The new Apple iPod Classic is a portable media player | | | | included its small size, with a 1.8" hard drive, while its |
| coming from Apple Inc. There have been six | | | | competitors were using a 2.5" hard drive at the time, |
| generations of the iPod Classic that use a 1.8" hard | | | | and its easy-to-use navigation, that was controlled with |
| drive for storage. Until the sixth generation, these | | | | a mechanical scroll wheel, a center OK button and 4 |
| media players were called, simply iPods, but later they | | | | auxiliary buttons around the wheel. The Apple iPod |
| are referred to as iPod Classics. The Apple iPods with | | | | arrived with a rated battery life of 12 hours. Apple |
| color displays use graphics and text, with sliding | | | | introduced a 10 GB model of the iPod classic on March |
| animations. These iPods from Apple used to come | | | | 2002. The second generation of iPod Classic was |
| with five buttons but in their later generations these | | | | launched on July 17, 2002. The new updated version |
| buttons are integrated into the click wheel design that | | | | had a redesigned hold switch along with an added |
| gives an uncluttered, minimalist interface. Apple iPod | | | | cover to the Fire Wire port. The mechanical wheel of |
| comes with an operating system that is stored on its | | | | the old model was then replaced with a touch-sensitive |
| dedicated storage medium. Every model of iPod | | | | wheel. The front place had the same rounded corners |
| Classic has a 32 MB of RAM, even though the 60 and | | | | and edges. |
| 80 GB fifth generation have 64 MB. | | | | Apple began selling PC-compatible versions of the |
| The first model of iPod Classic was introduced by | | | | iPod with the second generation. It came with a 4-pin |
| Apple on October 23, 2001. The first iPod had a 5 GB | | | | to 6-pin Fire Wire adapter and were bundled with |
| hard drive that was capable of storing 1,000 songs | | | | Musicmatch Jukebox instead of iTunes. |
| encoded using MP3. The innovations of Apple iPod | | | | |