iPod Repair Blog

In the year 2000 music players were rather chunky and in effect not-so-sleek until Steve Jobs changed the whole music experience to listening to what we call today as iPods. The very first iPod came out in 2001 with a maximum battery life of 10 hours. It has a Firewire connection and features 5 to 10 GB of space –rather large space for such a small gadget at the time. The iPod first generation was Apple Inc.’s very first iPod. It has a 1.8 inch hard drive while its competitors had larger ones. Apart from its small size however, the iPod first generation also offered ease of use since its navigation control is a simple scroll wheel.

The iPod second generation came out a year later and like its predecessor, it was introduced with a big bang thanks to Apple’s advertising. Although the style is the same as that of the first iPod released in 2001, the second generation music player was already compatible with Windows and had 10 to 20 GB capacity. Its hold switch was designed differently this time but apart from its compatibility with both Mac and Windows and its increased capacity to store music –it was very much the same as the first generation one.

By 2003, Apple came out with the 40GB iPod third generation. Its battery life is a lot lower though compared to the ones released in 2001 and 2002 but obviously stores more songs. That one feature is what makes this particular iPod quite amazing.

A year later, Apple Inc released the iPod Photo, the iPod fourth generation and the iPod mini first generation –expanding the iPod collection. By 2005, Apple came out with the iPod fifth generation and the very first nano and shuffle –and the rest of course (as they say) is history.

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In photos found on tipb.com, the unmistakable camera hole can be found on the front of a replacement iPod Touch 4 case. Steve Jobs did mention that Apple would be launching 10,000 Face Time devices and they are not all necessarily iPhones and with the use of your iTunes ID to connect calls possible, FaceTime is not strictly for the iPhone 4.

Steve Jobs is brilliant, but being able to connect using your iTunes ID is such a great idea. It doesn’t just limit the application to iPhone users and gives the application a whole new world to expand in to. By expanding the number of devices on the FaceTime network, the success of Face time is that much greater. I am more likely to purchase an iPod Touch 4 rather than an iPhone 4. The iPhone 4 has had so many problems.

I have to admit one of the immediate drawbacks I saw when FaceTime was initially launched was the amount of users on the network. No one I knew had FaceTime so what was the point? I thought, Ok, I will get on this bandwagon eventually, just not right now. I did not even consider the iPod Touch having the compatibility. I guess I just associated FaceTime with phone calls.