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September 5, 2007

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Beat goes on: The iPod goes classic

Posted Sep. 5, ’07, 10:42 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | iPod

iPod classicAnd, for those of you keeping track at home, that leaves the full iPod. “It’s a funny name,” Jobs said. “It’s just called the iPod because it was the first one, and we thought: it’s time to give it a name. We’re going to call it the iPod Classic.” Oh, man, I just love my classic iPod from 2005. Even cars have to be a wee bit older than that to be called classics.

But the new version sports a design that’s largely inspired by the iPhone: silver and black. They’re even thinner than the current iPods, and they start off with 80GB and 160GB of storage: that means the high end puts 40,000 songs in your pocket. Apple’s quoting 30 hours of audio playback and 5 hours of video playback for the 80GB, and 40 hours of audio and 7 hours of video for the 160GB, meaning a lot of that room must be going to battery. They’ll cost $249 and $349 respectively, and should both be available this weekend.

As opposed to the touch-interface expected by many, Apple’s keeping around the traditional Click Wheel for the iPod classic, though it will share the same “enhanced” user interface that he demoed on the new nano. Of course, there’s a reason they’re calling it the classic, and that’s to differentiate it from…


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