July 15, 2015: Apple introduces the sixth-gen iPod contact, trying to show that there’s nonetheless a spot for the common-or-garden music participant within the loopy, loopy world of iPhones and Apple Watches.
Apple calls the gadget “the perfect iPod contact but” in a press launch, and touts “a brand new lineup of colours for all iPod fashions, together with house grey, silver, gold, pink and blue.”
iPhone and iPod merge into iPod contact
Apple launched the unique iPod contact sizzling on the heels of the iPhone, again in September 2007. Typically considered a stripped-down iPhone (Steve Jobs as soon as referred to as it “coaching wheels for the iPhone“), the hand-held laptop nonetheless established its personal fan base and id — regardless of not receiving near the quantity of consideration Apple’s different product traces did.
At simply 6.1mm thick, the sixth-gen iPod contact measured greater than a millimeter slimmer than the ill-fated iPhone mini. The music participant from 2015 makes an iPhone 15 (7.8mm) appear fairly thick.
With a 128GB model obtainable, it was additionally Apple’s most capacious music participant since 2007’s 160GB iPod Traditional, the final iPod to incorporate the unique 30-pin iPod connector and Click on Wheel.
Sixth-gen iPod contact specs
The sixth-gen iPod contact boasted an A8 chip (which first appeared in 2014’s iPhone 6). An M8 movement co-processor enabled higher health monitoring. And an upgraded 8MP iSight digital camera captured higher pictures. The gadget delivered a powerful 40 hours of music-listening battery life, in keeping with Apple’s figures.
“iPod contact offers prospects world wide entry to Apple Music, the App Retailer and iOS, the world’s most superior cellular working system, beginning at simply $199,” stated Greg Joswiak, Apple’s vp of iPhone, iPod and iOS product advertising, within the press launch on at the present time in 2015. “With large developments just like the A8 chip and the 8 megapixel iSight digital camera, prospects can expertise next-level gameplay, take much more stunning pictures and luxuriate in their favourite music, TV reveals and flicks.”
R.I.P. iPod
At present, the iPod is a useless product. The iPod contact survived for years, with the closing mannequin arriving in 2019. Nevertheless, Apple stopped the music on the final remaining iPod line in 2022.
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