

I've seen some reviews that say the sound quality isn't the same.I personally do not notice any difference.Think about where you listen to music and on what speakers, earbuds.I think these people are just being picky.There is always backround noise no matter where you are. Read full reviewįirst off let me say that I do not believe there is any portable mp3 device with this much storage.This is one of the main reasons I purchased this one, my 5.5 gen 80 gb ipod was almost full. I would recommend this iPod if you have a large music collection that you want to take with you all the time. The menus still take some time to move between. Apple just recently updated the firmware to 1.0.3? The scroll wheel moves much smoothly now, but not like the iPod photo or the Nano 2G.

Sometimes the scroll wheel would not even move and cycling through the menus took a while because of the hard drive. I was slightly disappointed when I first received the iPod classic. I ended up selling it because it was so hard to choose 16gb of music out of my 115gb iTunes Library. The Touch was great at first, but was bulky and was most often mistaken for an iPhone. I purchased a iPod Touch when they first came out to replace my iPod Nano. It got the job done very well and very fast due to the flash memory instead of a hard drive. The nano was absolutely great! I still love and recommend it to this day. My second iPod was a 2nd Generation iPod Nano.

This was an amazing iPod, but scratched very easily. My first iPod was a 4th Generation iPod photo. The enclosure is made of anodized aluminum and polished stainless steel.Īpple stopped making the iPod classic in 2014, indicating it could no longer get the parts needed to make the device.Ok let's go through my iPod history. The iPod classic was available in two sizes, black and silver. For a time Apple even offered games that you could download and play on the iPod classic, though those were discontinued in late 2011.

The iPod classic's battery life is estimated at 36 hours of use per charge. The 160 GB hard drive can store 40,000 songs, 200 hours of video, or 25,000 photos. The iPod classic was the only iPod that didn't use solid state storage - instead, it's got a tiny 1.8-inch hard disk drive. The iPod classic runs its own operating system - it's not iOS, so you can't load apps from the App Store onto it, only music, movies and TV shows.īut enough about what the iPod classic can't do. The iPod classic uses a 30-pin Dock Connector interface to connect to a host Mac or PC running iTunes, which is the only way of downloading music to the device - it lacks Bluetooth or Wi-Fi connectivity. The rectangular music player sports a 320 x 240 pixel color LCD display, Click Wheel interface, and has 160 GB of internal storage. The iPod classic is most reminiscent of the original iPod - hence the "classic" moniker.
