What kind of ipod to buy

It pushed the boundaries of Apple's desire to rid the world of all buttons, and featured just a screen with no home button to speak of at all. But hey, at least Apple have been willing to play around with the look of its iPods over the years. Relative to the millions that would go on to buy an iPod over the years, hardly anyone bought its first generation. And with good reason. For starters it only worked with Macs, and featured a weird mechanical scroll-wheel that felt primitive compared to the beautiful touch-wheels that would succeed it.

This meant that in order to control the device at all you were forced to use the Apple earbuds that it came bundled with, the same ones that most people trade in for a better pair of headphones almost immediately. What made matters worse was that headphones with in-line remotes were not nearly as common in as they are now, meaning that you were pretty much stuck with the bundled earbuds.

North America. Jon Porter. The controls Play, Menu, Next, Previous are in a circle around the wheel. Identify your iPod model Find out which iPod model you have by its model number and other details. The iPod nano 4th generation comes in nine colors.

The iPod nano 3rd generation comes in five colors. The iPod 5th generation comes in white and black. The last three characters of the serial number are W9G.

Published Date: April 10, Yes No. Character limit: Maximum character limit is Start a discussion in Apple Support Communities. Ask other users about this article Ask other users about this article. The latter, which lacks a screen, can be particularly useful for exercise with its handy clothes clip and lightweight design, but otherwise is very limited in what it can do — it shuffles through your songs at random without you really being able to select them yourself.

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