Ipods

=IPods= __History__ Before IPods came out digital media devices were not very consistent. Some were big and clunky others to small and useless. So Apples CEO Steve Jobs decided to develop their own line. He had a group of engineers including chief engineer John Rubinstein. The project took just under a year to make and was unveiled on October 23 2001. Jobs said that the apple compatible Ipod has a small hard drive of 5G Which could hold 1,000 songs.

__Types__ IPods are portable media players designed and marketed by apple. Since then they have made different versions with different functions. The Ipod classic is a hard drive based Ipod, capable of storing large amounts of songs. The Ipod Nano is a smaller Ipod capable of playing videos. The shuffle is a small compact version, its easy to use and is very popular while running or working out. The Ipod touch is the latest Ipod on the market. It uses touch screen technology for navigation instead of the traditional touch wheel which is seen on the Classic and Nano. The most popular Ipod is also a phone. The Iphone has all the same features as the touch and more. Things like texting and and dialing is all done on the touch screen.

__Memory__ IPods have different types of memory devices and capacity differs from model. For example the Ipod classic uses an internal hard drive but the others use flash memory because of their size. The discontinued Ipod mini used microdrive miniature hard drive. As well as the Ipod being used for music it is also used as an external data storage device.

__Upcoming Devices__ Apple has just released the newest version to the ipod shuffle. It not only has a sleek new design its smaller and isn't controlled through any buttons or awheel clicker. It uses voice over technology which lets the ipod talk to you and ask you want yo want to be played. The response tool to respond to voice over is on the right headphone cord. They have also released a video to show you how easy it is to use.[|(Shuffle demonstration)]. Shuffle is the first to have the ipod talk to you. It has also improved on its memory capability by making it a 4G ipod which can hold 1000 songs. That's more then double of what you could before. Once againg when you think they cant add or improve they incorporate a brand new peice of technology in their devices.