Apple iPod Classic 160gb
Apple’s classic 160GB created a lot of rumours and speculations after its previous generation release and has lived up to the expectations of the ipod lovers. This ipod offers increased memory capacity, a full metal enclosure, thinner body, more visually rich GUI but has incompatibility with some of the accessories of the older versions.
Design:
Apple iPod Classic 160gb is only slightly thicker than the 80GB version. The display screen is a 2.5inch LCD color screen, with an LED backlight. This display is the best ipod display screen you must have ever experienced. It has a very good resolution of about 320 x 240 and equally brilliant brightness. It is having a matte finish metallic body making it look at its best. But its back is annoying by easily taking the smudges and scratches. It has the headphone jack and hold button on its top and the bottom edge for the proprietary connector as in the previous generations.
Setup:
iPod Classic 160GB is nice and simple. There are no demo music, pictures, videos or any other PMP bloat-ware installed. The software CD is not included hence; either you must be having the itunes preinstalled or at least, internet access in order to download it. Connecting the ipod to the PC is easy.
Usage:
The top-level menus have been divided in to two, one containing the menu options and the other containing the icons or background images. This change is a very impressive one. The cover flow system for browsing through has made its debut in classic range. But there is some noticeable amount of lag while using the cover flow, so if you have a large number of albums, you may prefer to use the search function.
Video performance:
Apple iPod Classic’s support for music playback, video, pod casts, photos and games remains unchanged. It supports H.264 or MPEG-4 video in MOV, MP4 or M4V file formats at a maximum resolution of 640 x 480 at around 30 frames per second. The video playback capability of classic is very impressive. Videos can be bought from itunes. But Apple ipod classic 160 gb requires itunes7.4 or higher versions in order to be compatible with your PC. It also has the capacity to automatically resume video playback from the point at which you last left off. The sub titles can also be switched on and off by option for the videos that support them. Apple has integrated in classic, three interesting video games. The recently released Apple ipods incompatibility with a number of 5G video accessories is disappointing.
Audio performance:
The audio quality can be said to be as unchanged. But the better quality head-phones made a difference making classic 160GB a little classier. This product allows for manual addition and deletion of music and video files without the hassles of the play list syncing.
Battery:
With the increased storage capacity and improved interface, the performance of the battery has also been upgraded. It has about 40hrs of audio and 7hrs of video playback where as the Apple iPod Classic 80GB version had 30hrs of audio and 5hrs of video. This is a very good upgrade attempted and achieved by Apple.
Box contents:
Apple gives their consumers the best out-of-the-box experience. The box itself gives you an idea about the richness of the product. It contains a quick starter, warranty, disclaimer notice and accessories that include ear bud head phones, USB sync, wall adaptor and a docking station adaptor.
Warranty:
Apple’s ipod classic 160GB comes with 1 year warranty.
In short, ipod classic 160GB can be said as one of the rich looking, high-capacity MP3 player in the market. Ipod classic is the one to own if your prime concern is on capacity.
Specification Details of Apple iPod Classic 160gb
| iPod Type | iPod Classic |
| Model Name | Apple ipod classic 160GB |
| Weight | 15.6 grams |
| Dimensions (W x H x D) | 10.4 x 6.2 x 1.4 |
| Weight | 162 grams |
| Colors Available | Silver, Black |
| Body Housing | Aluminium |
| Display | Color LCD Screen |
| Resolution | 320 x 240 pixels |
| Diagonal size | 2.5 inches |
| Storage media | Built-in hard disk drive |
| Capacity | 160GB ( can hold up to 200hrs of video ) |
| Supported photo standards | BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, PSD (Mac only) |
| Supported audio standards | WAV, AAC, AIFF, Audible, MP3, Apple Lossless |
| Supported video standards | MOV, MPEG-4, H.264 |
| Audio output | Headphones - binaural |
| Connectivity | Docking connector Headphones Component vide Composite video |
| itunes | itunes 7.6 or later versions |
| Additional features | Battery level indication hold button volume limiter playback speed control date display phone book calendar upgradeable firmware built-in games notes photo wallet USB 2.0 compatibility Cover flow |
| Battery type | Rechargeable Lithium ion battery |
| Battery life | Audio playback: 40hrs Video playback: 7hrs |
| In the box | iPod classic Earphones USB 2.0 cable Dock adaptor Quick Start guide |
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