After 10 years of sustainance, iPod has
gained cavernous number of users in the world of entertainment. iPod
has become one of the most advanced technology and smarter choice. If
we look back in history, the percentage of users are increased
rapidly.
History of iPod
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iPod Classic
The first model of iPod generation is
iPod Classic. The first portable music player with the mechanical
scroll wheel. Later on from 2001 to 2009, it came with features such
as mechanical scroll wheel, dock connector, color screen plus picture
viewing, 120 GB capacity etc. Last version of classic is seen with
slimmer case and larger screen with video playback.
iPod Mini
Then comes the iPod Mini, a digital
audio player which was launched in 2004 with the ultimate 5 colours.
It introduced the click wheel with the brighter color variants and
longer battery life. In that time, this is the most famous electronic
product available in the mini.
iPod Nano
Release of ever thinnest iPod Nano by
Apple announced the stylish portable media player with the flash
memory as storage. This was the first iPod with the passionate
features of including video camera, accelerometer for shake and
horizontal view, 2.5 inch multi touch screen, Bluetooth etc.
This version with the enhanced model
gained the enormous number of people towards it.
iPod Shuffle
iPod shuffle is the smallest member of
the iPod family which uses flash memory. The first model of this
category released on January 2005 with no screen. It is a slim and
highly proficient music player which encases a 1Gb flash based media
player. The iPod shuffle is a random player which pop up the music on
its own with a loud rock tracks.
iPod Touch
One of the most widespread and thinnest
model which weighs 88 g possessed brilliant design, 4-inch retina
display, superb camera and many more advanced features marketed by
Apple. It is a multitasking pocket size gadget which consist of
outstanding user interface that is touchscreen based. The latest
model was dispatch in 2012 which has new aluminium design with
several colour case options featured with iOS (Apple operating
system).
How iPod works?
iPod is the most popular gadget of the
decade which is used for storing, transferring and playing multimedia
files. Generally iPod stores all the multimedia files on an internal
memory chip. From here we could able to retrieve the files
accordingly. The working of the iPod is very simple. All the devices
of the iPod are integrated with iTunes. So, first download your music
files or Cds into the computer. Then that files are loaded into the
iTunes software. After ensuring that the multimedia files have been
transferred to the particular software, plug the iPod in the computer
and tranfer them from the software to the iPod. Unplug and there are
your favourite numbers on it. Let us see the different parts that how
it works:
1) iTunes:
This is a software developed by Apple
which is used to organize, add or delete the multimedia files from
the computer to the iPod and vice versa. All the devices are
generally integrated with this piece of amazing software which always
sync it with a portable device. With this software we can easily
pluck the music from Cds into MP3 or various other formats as well.
When we connect the iPod to the PC it automatically updates the music
files and all.
2) Touch-sensitive wheel:
Touch is the sensitive feature which
makes the task of accessing the menus and features on the screen
faster by dragging. iPod uses a technology called capacitive sensing.
These capacitive sensors are hypersensitive to detect anything that
is conductive and consist of an insulator different fron that of air.
It uses electrical impulses and react accordingly.
So this is the overall history and
working of tremondous digital portable media players i.e. one and
only iPod.