| With all the new hype surrounding Apple's latest | | | | listener. |
| announcement on the iPod touch and iPod classic, it's | | | | Third, the iPod mini is a durable animal. The outer shell is |
| easy to get caught up in the frenzy and ditch your | | | | made of metal and, although it can get scratched up if |
| older iPod. | | | | you are not careful, it can take a beating and still |
| The iPod mini is by far one of the most popular | | | | protect the internal components. |
| devices in the iPod family. As the owner of | | | | Fourth, while the iPod mini battery inside the unit will |
| ipodjuice.com, I get to speak directly with our | | | | eventually degrade over time, it is user-replaceable if |
| customers on a daily basis, and it's amazing how many | | | | you know what you are doing. Just make sure you |
| people want to get a new iPod mini battery for their | | | | find a third-party vendor that provides good, detailed |
| player and to extend their playtimes well-beyond the | | | | instructions and the proper tools to safely complete |
| original stock battery that Apple put inside the unit. | | | | the job. is the category killer here, and you can check |
| What makes the iPod mini so special? | | | | them out at for more information. |
| Well, one of the first things that you notice about the | | | | Next, although in my experience I would say that there |
| iPod mini are all the bright colors they come in. You can | | | | are slightly more female owners of the iPod mini than |
| find an iPod mini in gold, silver, green, blue, and perhaps | | | | male. It's hard to put a finger on it, but the iPod mini's |
| the most popular color, pink (the ScrollWheel and top | | | | popularity seems to cut across a gender and a wide |
| and bottom end caps are white). Of course, you can | | | | range of ages. |
| always snatch a 2nd Generation iPod nano in a bevy | | | | Finally, the iPod mini is just the right size: smaller than a |
| of bright colors, but they have far less storage then a | | | | new iPod Video and more manageable than a iPod |
| 1st or 2nd Generation iPod mini does. | | | | nano, the mini is perfect for long runs and bicycle rides. |
| And this leads me to my second point: the 4GB or | | | | It works great when clipped to an armband or you can |
| 6GB hard drive inside an iPod mini generally provides | | | | simply tuck it away in your pocket. |
| more than enough storage for the average music | | | | |