Apple iPod Classic / 1st Generation

100 hours of video, 20,000 songs, 25,000 photos; all these can be standard on the iPod fifth generation 80 GB portable media player. Notice we didn’t say MP3 player? This is a hard drive driven package of pleasurable playing. Increasing its battery life to 20 hours for music and six and a half hours for videos, the iPod is slowly but surely coming off the ‘bash’ list. Apple hopes this will bring the player back into the graces of the more than generous public demanding more zip and go than ever. If it does make good come back, it will probably be due to its relationship with iTunes. With it being the easiest software to use, and Apple boasting a screen that is now sixty percent brighter, this iPod is expected to take huge strides in a short time.

The massive size of its hard drive is causing this iPod to gain speed as it whizzes past the smaller 1 Gig players. However, not much about its looks have changed. It still has the sleek, sexy look one comes to expect when using Apple products. It is still as easy scratch as always which makes it hard to understand why they don’t do something about that. But, like most of us, the average consumer will accept this and wind up purchasing a protective cover which will give that ‘personal’ touch as we are prone to customize (mark-up) the soft covers to suit us. Apple could take a cue from Cowon or Archos on video watching. The little screen gets very difficult to focus on while watching a video with any length to it. A stand or larger viewing screen would be great. The only other thing recommended to Apple is to include an iTunes installation CD for those who are not connected to the Internet.