Just another reminder that Apple’s obsession with removing ports and buttons and goes way back into the pre-iPhone days. Whereas its predecessors did away with screens, this model also decided controls were a trifling distraction and banished them to the earbuds. The maddest iPod Apple ever designed, the third-generation Shuffle possibly streamlined things a bit too far. 11) iPod Shuffle, third generation (2009) Still got one hiding in a drawer somewhere? Watch out for bulging screens this generation Nano has been known for its battery to expand over time, pushing the display out from the casing and rendering it unusable. Actually recording with the thing was fiddly, and you only got VGA ( 640×480) output, but it’d be another year before the iPod touch line would blaze past with its fancy HD video recording. The revised unit added radio and iPod tagging, VoiceOver, Nike+ integration, and – for the first time in an iPod – a video camera. With the fifth-gen, the case remained fairly similar to that of its immediate predecessor, but the technology within was much more interesting. Whereas the second-generation iPod had Windows compatibility through Musicmatch, now iTunes moved to Windows, enabling the 95 per cent or so of people who weren’t Mac users to enjoy its charms.Īnd what a list of charms it had: that lovely, rounded case, a throne-like dock, plus an extra five minutes of skip-protection (up to 25 minutes), a minor miracle for those still used to babying their CD Walkmans.īetween 20, the iPod Nano had gone all colourful, turned into a squat credit-card-sized device, and then became ultra-streamlined. And it was also a future that Windows users were now properly invited to. Glowing buttons and a touch wheel on the third-generation iPod made you feel a bit like you were living in the future. Trying to cram an iPad into our jeans just isn’t going to be the same. Coupled with the tiny form factor, it was great for kids or for slinging in a pocket. And it was absurdly light – the final iteration weighed just 88g. But why’s it so high up in this list? Because it was brilliant.įor a relatively small outlay, you got the iPhone’s most important bits – a touchscreen display and access to the App Store. Sorry, purists – we’ve decided the iPod Touch is a ‘proper’ iPod and not an old-school iPhone someone ran over with a steamroller and hacked the Phone app off of using a chisel.
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