Basic Introduction to the Popular Music Player iPod

iPod, a brand of portable music player designed and sold by Apple Inc, has remained a widely sought-after digital gadget all over the world for nearly a decade. The unique body and advanced functions have made the item a milestone in the history of portable music players. Many youngsters are keen on iPod and regard it as a fashion symbol. Nowadays, an iPod model is commonly affordable, and wholesale iPod is becoming a more and more profitable business.

The first model in the iPod series was released on October 23, 2001. So far, the iPod has come in a variety of types including Shuffle, Nano, Classic and Touch, each of which has its distinctive features. For example, iPod Touch provides a touch screen feature and iPod Nano is video-enable. Distinctive characteristics of most models of iPod lie in the compact body, the ultra light weight, the simple interface and the scroll wheel. Furthermore, iPod models are especially famous for their user-friendly interface. Even young children and old people can easily learn how to use any of iPod modes. The user-friendly interface and the scroll wheel have made it possible for iPod users to access the iPod main menu and to become familiar with main features of the music player within a short period.

Distinctive from traditional music players like Walkman, an iPod model does not need cassettes or cds. The older versions of iPod models use a built-in hard drive to store media while the the newer models use flash memory for the storage like iPod Touch, Nano and Shuffle.

At the beginning, an iPod model cost as high as $400, which blocked away a significant range of potential customers. Over time, to satisfy the growing demands for affordable and multi-feature handy digital players, Apple launched a number of new series of iPod models. These models, of course, update with new outlooks and more advanced functions like PC support and color display, which are not only widely sought-after among general clients but affordable to this group of people. The updates quickly made iPod an unbeatable giant in the market of portable music players. Currently items in the iPod family have maintained a best-selling record among all same category items in many countries.

The marketing of iPod is thought to have contributed a lot to the popularity of iPod models. In the past years, we saw some excellent ads contributed by iPod appearing one after another. Almost every ad copy about iPod features the coolest tunes playing in the background, which is not only vivid but also unbelievably innovative.

2 years ago, the Apple company launched the rich-feature smartphone iPhone in the U.S.. This intellective mobile phone is in fact an integration of two products: a cell phone and an iPod model. Soon the first touch screen iPod, the iPod touch, was released, with the multi-touch graphical touch screen feature of iPhone. Likewise, the iPod touch is also the first iPod model providing Internet access via the Wi-Fi wireless network. Viewed from this tendency, we see Apple is attempting to turn the iPod from simply a portable media player into a PC-based multi-media player supporting music files, Internet capacities