The company has sold 28 million has often added new editions and improvements to the models. The new iPod features a 2.5-inch screen to playback video or to view photos. The new iPod features a longer lasting battery, advertised with battery life of up to 20 hours, five more than before. It's about half an inch thin, with the 30GB iPod taking up 45% less space than the original iPod model.
The company also revealed it will begin selling some music videos through it's iTunes music store for $1.99 each, some short animations from Pixar Studios Inc. and also some popular TV shows from ABC for the same price a day after they air. The iPod is advertised a holding 15,000 songs (based on AAC 128/kbps), 25,000 photos (based on iPod compatible photos imported from iTunes) and up to 150 hours of video (Video capacity is based on 4 minutes per H.264 750-kbps video combined with 128-kbps audio.)
iPod Video Specs:
So all in all it sounds like a pretty nice device but we will all have to sit back to see if there are similar complints made about this model as there has been about the last iPod Apple introduced, the iPod Nano.
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Written by: James Delahunty @ 12 Oct 2005 12:07