So How Does An Ipod Work?!
Apple was playing around with digital tools - cameras, camcorders etc when it suddenly dawned that the music world was being given a step motherly treatment. Here everything was heavy, bulky and anachronistic. So Apple decided to probe in and within a year came out in 2001 with this marvel - the iPod. This MP3 player had an unprecedented 5 gigabytes storage capacity. Today the fifth generation of iPod miracle treats us to songs, photo slides and films. The storage capacity has shot up to 80GB. Apart from iPod 5G the recent models are iPod shuffle which is confined to songs only and iPod nano. The latter is smaller then iPod video and digitally programmed to play audios and display photos.
iPod is not limited to its parent body Apple - it works also with Mac and Windows. What makes it great is the form, which is just 1.4 cm weighing 156 gm, the delicately sensitive wheel which fluidly guides the user through innumerable menus and the superb integration system.
20,000 songs can all crowd inside the 80-GB iPod. Fantastic! The searching device through keywords locates the song. Songs can also be downloaded. The user has a choice of three speeds. There are 22 equalizer presets matching various styles of music. The iPod can also be connected to the desktop stereo.
The 80-GB iPod imprisons in itself 100 video hours and with certain tools it can be downloaded to the home player. 25,000 photos can squeeze into this tiny model. The external hard drive of the iPod works as a mobile hard drive. Among the added features are downloading of recent new contacts/calendar information. It comes with pre-loaded games (four) and the ability to download games from the iTunes store, other companies and with tools that enable the user to create games. The iPod can be integrated to the music system of the car. The iPod consists of seven basic parts - the hard drive, battery, click wheel, display, microprocessor, video chip and audio chip. The 30-GB hard drive (Toshiba/1.8") weighs only 48 grams holding 93.5 gigabits per square inch. Tiny featherweight sliders do the trick. The display (25"/16bit) screen is microscopically thin - 3.175 mm in depth. The connectors too are like fairy stuff - light and ephemeral. The chips and memory devices are cradled by the motherboard. The click wheel controls mixed signal devices handling both types of data - analog and digital. Finger movements on the wheel surface generate the analog data. This is converted into digital data with a microprocessor. Some complaints are rolling in. The battery trips after 8 hours (does not last the promised 14 hours), the bass response is weak, the hard drives fragile and the screens prone to scratches. 
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