iPod - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Personal tools Create account Log in Namespaces Views Article Read iPod Talk View source FromMain Wikipedia,page the free encyclopedia Contents Variants View history Featured"IPOD" content redirects here. For other uses, see IPOD (disambiguation). More Current events TheRandom iPod article is a line of portable media players and multi-purpose pocket computers designed Search 1 andDonate marketed to Wikipedia by Apple Inc. The first line was released on October 23, 2001, about 8 ⁄2 Search monthsWikipedia after store iTunes (Macintosh version) was released. The most recent iPod redesigns wereInteraction announced on September 12, 2012. There are three current versions of the iPod: the Help ultra-compact iPod Shuffle, the compact iPod Nano and the touchscreen iPod Touch. iPod logo About Wikipedia LikeCommunity other digital portal music players, iPods can serve as external data storage devices. Storage capacityRecent varieschanges by model, ranging from 2 GB for the iPod Shuffle to 160 GB for the iPod Contact page Classic. The devices are controlled by the Samsung ARM and the Apple A5 CPUs. Tools Apple'sWhat iTuneslinks here software (and other alternative software) can be used to transfer music, photos,Related videos, changes games, contact information, e-mail settings, Web bookmarks, and calendars,Upload file to the devices supporting these features from computers using certain Special pages versions of Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows operating systems.[1][2] Permanent link BeforePage theinformation release of iOS 5, the iPod branding was used for the media player included Wikidata item with the iPhone and iPad, a combination of the Music and Videos apps on the iPod Cite this page iPod line as of 2014. From left Touch. As of iOS 5, separate apps named "Music" and "Videos" are standardized across Print/export to right: iPod Shuffle, iPod Nano, all iOS-powered products.[3] While the iPhone and iPad have essentially the same media Create a book iPod Touch. playerDownload capabilities as PDF as the iPod line, they are generally treated as separate products. DuringPrintable the version middle of 2010, iPhone sales overtook those of the iPod.[4] Languages Contents [hide] Afrikaans العربيةHistory 1 2 HardwareAzərbaycanca Български 2.1 Audio Bosanski Català2.2 Connectivity Чӑвашла2.3 Accessories 3 SoftwareČeština Cymraeg Dansk3.1 Interface Deutsch3.2 iTunes Store Diné3.3 bizaad Games Eesti 3.4 File storage and transfer Ελληνικά 4 ModelsEmiliàn e andrumagnòl features 5 PatentEspañol disputes Esperanto 6 Sales Euskara impact فارسیIndustry 7 8 CriticismFrançais Gaeilge8.1 Battery problems 8.2 Reliability and durability 한국어 Հայերեն8.3 Labor disputes 9 Timeline of iPod models and related products Hrvatski http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod[30/03/2015 21:54:57] iPod - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 10 See also Bahasa Indonesia 11IsiZulu References 12Íslenska External links Italiano עברית HistoryBasa Jawa See also: Timeline of Apple Inc. products Kurdî Though the iPod was released in 2001, its price and Mac-only compatibility caused sales Latina [5] to beLatviešu relatively slow until 2004. The iPod line came from Apple's "digital hub" category,Lëtzebuergesch when the company began creating software for the growing market of personalLietuvių digital devices. Digital cameras, camcorders and organizers had well- Limburgs establishedMagyar mainstream markets, but the company found existing digital music players "big and clunky or small and useless" with user interfaces that were "unbelievably awful,"[6] so Apple decided to develop its own. As ordered by CEO Steve Jobs, Apple's hardwareBahasa Melayu engineering chief Jon Rubinstein assembled a team of engineers to design the Nāhuatl iPod line, including hardware engineers Tony Fadell and Michael Dhuey,[7] and design Nederlands [6] engineer日本語 Sir Jonathan Ive. Rubinstein had already discovered the Toshiba disk drive whenNorsk meeting bokmål with an Apple supplier in Japan, and purchased the rights to it for Apple, andNorsk had nynorsk also already worked out how the screen, battery, and other key elements would Occitan [8] work.Oʻzbekcha/ўзбекча The aesthetic was inspired by the 1958 Braun T3 transistor radio designed by Rams, while the wheel based user interface was prompted by Bang & Olufsen's Various iPod models, all of پنجابیDieter which have been discontinued or BeoComPolski 6000 telephone.[9][10] The product ("the Walkman of the twenty-first century" updated. [11]Português) was developed in less than one year and unveiled on October 23, 2001. Jobs Română announcedРусский it as a Mac-compatible product with a 5 GB hard drive that put "1,000 songs [12] in yourСаха тылаpocket." Shqip AppleSimple did English not develop the iPod software entirely in-house, instead using PortalPlayer's reference platform based on two ARMSlovenčina cores. The platform had rudimentary software running on a commercial microkernel embedded operating system. PortalPlayerSlovenščina had previously been working on an IBM-branded MP3 player with Bluetooth headphones.[6] Apple contracted company, Pixo, to help design and implement the user interface under the direct supervision of Steve Jobs.[6] As کوردیanother Српски / srpski developmentSrpskohrvatski progressed, / Apple continued to refine the software's look and feel. Starting with the iPod Mini, the Chicago fontсрпскохрватски was replaced with Espy Sans. Later iPods switched fonts again to Podium Sans—a font similar to Apple's corporate Suomi font, Myriad. iPods with color displays then adopted some Mac OS X themes like Aqua progress bars, and brushed metal Svenska meantTagalog to evoke a combination lock. In 2007, Apple modified the iPod interface again with the introduction of the sixth- generation iPod Classic and third-generation iPod Nano by changing the font to Helvetica and, in most cases, splitting the screen in half by displaying the menus on the left and album artwork, photos, or videos on the right (whichever was ไทย appropriate for the selected item). Türkçe In 2006Українська Apple presented a special edition for iPod 5G of Irish rock band U2. Like its Vèneto predecessor, this iPod has engraved the signatures of the four members of the band on Vepsän kel’ its back,Tiếng Việt but this one was the first time the company changed the colour of the metal but black). This iPod was only available with 30GB of storage capacity. The יי silverִ דישnot) special粵語 edition entitled purchasers to an exclusive video with 33 minutes of interviews 文 and中 performance by U2, downloadable from the iTunes Store.[13][14] Edit links In September 2007, during a lawsuit with patent holding company Burst.com, Apple iPod U2 Special Edition. drew attention to a patent for a similar device that was developed in 1979. Kane Kramer applied for a UK patent for his design of a "plastic music box" in 1981, which he called the IXI.[15] He was unable to secure funding to renew the US$120,000 worldwide patent, so it lapsed and Kramer never profited from his idea.[15] The name iPod was proposed by Vinnie Chieco, a freelance copywriter, who (with others) was called by Apple to figure out how to introduce the new player to the public. After Chieco saw a prototype, he thought of the movie 2001: A Space http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod[30/03/2015 21:54:57] iPod - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Odyssey and the phrase "Open the pod bay door, Hal!", which refers to the white EVA Pods of the Discovery One spaceship. Chieco saw an analogy to the relationship between the spaceship and the smaller independent pods in the relationship between a personal computer and the music player.[6] Apple researched the trademark and found that it was already in use. Joseph N. Grasso of New Jersey had originally listed an "iPod" trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in July 2000 for Internet kiosks. The first iPod kiosks had been demonstrated to the public in New Jersey in March 1998, and commercial use began in January 2000, but had apparently been discontinued by 2001. The trademark was registered by the USPTO in November 2003, and Grasso assigned it to Apple Computer, Inc. in 2005.[16] The earliest recorded use in commerce of an "iPod" trademark was in 1991 by Chrysalis Corp. of Sturgis, Michigan, styled "iPOD".[17] Hardware Chipsets and Electronics Chipset or Product(s) Component(s) Electronic iPod Classic 1st to 3rd generations Two ARM 7TDMI-derived CPUs running at 90 MHz iPod Classic 4th and 5th generations, iPod Mini, Variable-speed ARM 7TDMI CPUs, running at a peak iPod Nano 1st generation of 80 MHz to save battery life iPod Classic 6th generation, iPod Nano 2nd Samsung System-on-a-chip, based around an ARM generation onwards, iPod Shuffle 2nd generation [18][19] onwards processor. SigmaTel D-Major STMP3550 chip running at 75 MHz Microcontroller iPod Shuffle 1st generation that handles both the music decoding and the audio circuitry.[20] iPod Touch 1st and 2nd generation ARM 1176JZ(F)-S at 412 MHz for 1st gen, 533 MHz for 2nd gen. iPod Touch 3rd and 4th generation ARM Cortex A8 at 600 MHz for 3rd gen, 800 MHz for 4th gen. iPod Touch 5th generation ARM Cortex A9 at 800 MHz iPod Classic 1st to 5th generation, iPod Touch 1st generation, iPod Nano 1st to 3rd generation, iPod Audio Codecs developed by Wolfson Microelectronics Mini[21] Audio Chip iPod Classic 6th generation, iPod Touch 2nd generation onwards, iPod Shuffle, iPod Nano 4th Cirrus Logic Audio Codec Chip generation onwards iPod Classic 45.7 mm (1.8 in) hard drives (ATA-6, 4200