On September 7, 2005, Apple introduced the iPod Nano at a media event with Steve Jobs pointing to the small watch pocket in his jeans and asking, "Ever wonder what.

All generations used a 1. All i. Pods have five buttons and the later generations (4th and above) have the buttons integrated into the click wheel — a design which gives an uncluttered, minimalist interface, though the circuitry contains multiple momentary button switches. The buttons are: Menu: to traverse backwards through the menus, toggle the backlight on older i. Pods, and jump to the main menu on newer i. Pods. Center: to select a menu item.

Play / Pause: this doubles as an off switch when held. Skip Forward / Fast Forward. Skip Backwards / Fast Reverse. Operating system and firmware. An additional NOR flash ROM chip (either 1 MB or 5.

KB) contains a bootloader program that tells the device to load its OS from the storage medium. Each i. Pod also has 3. MB of RAM, although the 6. GB and 8. 0GB fifth generation, and the sixth- generation models have 6.

MB. A portion of the RAM is used to hold the i. Pod OS loaded from firmware, but the majority of it serves to cache songs from the storage medium.

For example, an i. Pod could spin its hard disk up once and copy approximately 3. MB of upcoming songs into RAM, thus saving power by not requiring the drive to spin up for each song.

Custom firmware has also been developed such as Rockbox (up to 6. G - 6. G requires em. CORE) and i. Pod. Linux (up to 5. G) which offer open- source alternatives to the standard firmware and operating system.

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Additional features. A firmware update released in September 2. Pods including adjustable screen brightness, gapless playback, and downloadable games.

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However, as of September 3. Tunes Store. They went on sale on November 1. The first i. Pod had a black and white LCD (liquid- crystal display) screen and featured a 5. GB hard drive capable of storing 1,0. MP3 and was priced at US$3. Among the i. Pod's innovations were its small size, achieved using a 1.

The i. Pod had a rated battery life of ten hours. On March 2. 0, 2. Apple introduced a 1. GB model of the first- generation i. Pod for US$4. 99. VCard compatibility was added, as well as allowing i.

Pods to display business card information synced from a Mac. Using a similar body style as the first generation, the top of the i. Pod was redesigned, switching from a single swooping cutout in the back plate to mount the firewire port, hold switch and headphone assembly, to individual ports being cut into the back plate to allow these ports to be accessed.

Furthermore, the hold switch was redesigned, a cover was added to the Fire. Wire port, and the mechanical wheel was replaced with a touch- sensitive wheel. The second- generation class was available in 1. GB for US$3. 99 and 2. GB for US$4. 99. The first- generation 5. GB i. Pod was carried over, but its price was reduced to US$2.

Notably, the second- generation i. Pods and the updated first- generation i. Pod were now Windows- compatible. These versions came with a 4- pin to 6- pin Fire. Wire adapter and were bundled with Musicmatch Jukebox. At that time i. Tunes was Mac only and unavailable for Windows.

In December 2. 00. Apple unveiled its first limited edition i.

Pods, with either Madonna’s, Tony Hawk’s, or Beck’s signature or No Doubt's band logo engraved on the back for an extra US$5. Thinner than the previous models, the third- generation models replaced the Fire. Wire port with a new Dock Connector and introduced the Touch Wheel, a completely non- mechanical interface with the four auxiliary buttons located in a row between the screen and the touch wheel. The front plate had rounded edges, and the rear casing was slightly rounded as well.

A new wired remote connector was introduced. Whereas first and second- generation i. Pods had an auxiliary ring around the headphone port for the remote, the third- generation i.

Pods had a 4- pin jack adjacent to the headphone port. A 1. 0GB model was sold for US$2. GB model for US $3. GB model for US $4. All i. Pods were now compatible with Mac and Windows out of the box, was simply requiring Windows users to reformat the i.

Pod before use on a PC and both i. Tunes and Musicmatch Jukebox were bundled with all i.

Pods. The battery life was reduced to 8 hours, partially due to the use of a lithium- ion battery as opposed to a lithium polymer battery. The 1. 5GB model was replaced by a 2. GB model and the 3.

GB model was upgraded to 4. GB on September 8, 2. The Windows- based Musicmatch Jukebox software was made obsolete and replaced by i. Tunes 4. 1, the first version available for Microsoft Windows. The casing was also slightly slimmer. Pricing was reduced and the lineup was simplified, as the 2.

GB model was sold for US$2. GB model for US$3. Notably, Apple began reducing pack- in accessories starting with the fourth generation. While a dock, carrying case, and wired remote were previously included with higher- end i. Pods, the higher- level 4.

GB i. Pod only came with a dock, earphones and an interchangeable proprietary cable capable of USB and Fire. Wire interface. In addition to using the i. Pod Mini's Click Wheel, the fourth- generation i. Pod used the more energy- efficient components of the Mini, allowing the fourth- generation i. Pod to over 1. 2 hours of battery life while using the same battery as its predecessor.

A special U2 edition was announced on October 2. U2's How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb album. The plastic front piece of the U2 edition i. Pod was black and the scroll wheel was red, to coincide with the color scheme of the U2 album. With 2. 0 GB and the signatures of all four members of U2, the special edition i. Pod was priced at US$3. US$5. 0 coupon for a US$1.

U2's entire back catalog. U2 i. Pod customers also received 3. U2 video downloadable from the i. Tunes Music Store. A Special Harry Potter Edition was announced on September 7, 2. It was released in conjunction with the Harry Potter Audiobooks in i.

Tunes. Positioned as a premium version of the standard fourth- generation i. Pod, the i. Pod Photo featured a 2. The i. Pod Photo was available in a 4. GB version for US$4. GB version for US$5. On February 2. 3, 2. GB models (photo and regular) were replaced with a slimmer and lower- priced (US$3.

GB photo model leaving only a 2. GB black- and- white i. Pod left. The price for the 6. GB model was dropped to US$4.

Fire. Wire cable, and television cable extra- cost options. On the same day, Apple announced the i. Pod Camera Connector which allowed instant transfer of images from a USB- compatible digital camera to the i. Pod Photo. The price for the 6. GB model was also dropped to US$3. The fifth- generation i.

Pod featured a 2. It was the first i. Pod to be able to play videos.

The fifth- generation i. Pod is the first i.

Pod to be available in an alternative color scheme in a non- special- edition form, as a black option was added alongside . The 4- pin remote port was removed as well, causing backwards compatibility issues with certain accessories. A 3. 0GB model was offered for US$2. GB model was offered for US$3. Cult Sci Fi Movies Killing Ground (2017) more. The fifth- generation i.

Pod was also offered in the U2 special edition for US$3. GB. The fifth- generation i. Pod was the last model to have a plastic face. The fifth- generation i.

Pod plays video in MP4 (up to 2. Mbit/s) and H. 2. The fifth- generation enhance i. Download Whole The Bronze (2016) Movie. Pod and or 1st revision plays video in MP4 (up to 2. Mbit/s) and H. 2. Mbit/s. Video such as TV shows, podcasts, music videos, and movies may be purchased from online stores such as the i. Tunes Store, or downloaded from Google Video and other sources, then imported to the i.

Pod via i. Tunes software. Videos or photo slideshows may be played from the fifth- generation i. Pod on a television set, projector or monitor with the use of the Apple i. Pod AV cable or via a dock using an S- Video cable. It is also possible to do this using some camcorder cables with an RCA connection at one end and a three- banded eighth- inch (3.

A/V plug at the other, although the red and yellow plugs (normally the audio right and video signals respectively) must be swapped around in order to achieve the correct signal. The fifth- generation i. Pod was updated on September 1.