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A brief history of the iPod: 5 years old today


Today is the iPod's fifth birthday, and in that time it has incarnated in at least 30 formats, plus special editions
and colour variations.

Here we take a brief journey through iPod history, since October
2001 when the first iPod arrived on the scene


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iPod with Scroll Wheel - First Generation

The one that started the mobile white-ear-bud-wearing digital music craze, launched October 2001.
White model, monochrome screen, 5 or 10 GB hard drive, scroll wheel
Scroll wheel moves - four function buttons located around the edge of wheel


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iPod with Touch Wheel - Second Generation

First launched July 2002.
White model, 10 or 20 GB hard drive, monochrome screen, touch wheel
Wheel doesn’t move - four function buttons located above the wheel





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iPod with Dock Connector - Third Generation

First launched April 2003
White body, 10, 15 or 30 GB hard drive models, monochrome screen
Introduces the dock connector - previous models had a Firewire port.
20 and 40 GB models introduced in September 2003





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iPod Mini

First introduced January 2004
Introduced the Click Wheel with four functions on the wheel itself
Body available in five colours: Silver, Gold, Pink, Blue and Green





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Second Generation introduced February 2005

Originally available with 4 GB Hard Drive. Second Generation 6 GB.
Second generation models had **************** on wheel the same colour as the body





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iPod with Click Wheel - Fourth Generation

First introduced July 2004
Available in 20 or 40 GB hard drve models
White body, monochrome display, click wheel





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iPod ‘U2′ Special Edition

Special Edition of the iPod 20GB Click Wheel model
Black body, red wheel, engraved signatures of U2 band members on reverse panel, loaded with music from U2 album.
Updated version launched June 2005 with colour display





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iPod with Colour Display - iPod Photo

First introduced October 2004.
Available in 40 and 60 GB hard drive models.
White body, colour display
Additional colour models released February 2005 (30 GB) and July 2005 (20 and 60 GB) hard drives





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iPod Shuffle - First Generation

First introduced January 2005.
Available in 512 MB and 1 GB Flash memory models
No display. white body, LEDs





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iPod Nano

First introduced September 2005
White or black body, avaiable in 1GB (released February 2006), 2GB and 4GB models
Click wheel, flash memory, USB only - no Firewire





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iPod Video - Fifth Generation

Released October 2005.
Black or white body, widescreen colour display, 30 or 60 GB hard drive capacity.
USB only

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Released September 2006.
Improved display brightness
Thinner, larger capacity models
Music search function
Longer battery life
30, & 80GB versions





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iPod nano - Second Generation

Released September 2006.
Body available in six colours
Remodelled body
Longer battery life
2, 4 & 8GB





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iPod shuffle - Second Generation

Released October 2006.
Smaller body
Aluminium casing
1GB memory





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Released Feb. 2007
Multi Colors




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It’s interesting to see how the design has evolved over time, particularly the changing navigation
wheels, from scroll wheel to touch wheel to click wheel, plus new smaller models and those without displays