Product Description
With 160GB of storage iPod classic gives your music and video room to move. It also has plenty of energy (up to 40000 songs or up to 200 hours of video) good looks (a sleek all-metal design) and a great personality (a brand-new interface with Cover Flow). In other words iPod classic makes an ideal companion.
Customer Reviews:
Get an iPod for £5.......2008-01-18
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Shiny!!.......2008-01-10
I do like my new shiny silver 160GB Ipod. Sounds and looks great in my Shiny new Klipsh STX (check these out for a docking station with speakers). It arrived nice and quick on free super saver delivery, don't bother to pay the extra for faster delivery, you may as well go to the high-street if you are in a hurry. Very pleased with the service.
I dropped a star cos of Apple though...
Linux support please and some decent headphones. Perhaps make the games an optional download rather than preinstall them, we dont all want games. A nice cloth case that will polish the unit as well. I find the menus a bit clunky, but will get used to them I guess.
150GB is closer to the truth!
A great bit of kit though, if you have lots of music and you want it all easily portable. Photo's and vids as well (if you want). There is currently no real competitor for capacity, quality etc, in a unit this small (in my opinion)
Did I mention. Some decent headphones would be nice!!
Brains and beauty.......2007-11-29
Everything about Apple's products oozes effortless beauty and quality throughout and the new iPod continue this tradition. From the moment the iPod is placed in your hands you know you are handling something special. The packaging is a pleasure to use and open and this continues as you use the product. The simplicity and beauty do not diminish but rather aid the use and function of the iPod.
This is my third iPod and I have never been let down or had cause to look at any alternative.
If there is one thing lacking (and it's the only thing I have come across after 2 months of use) it is the cloth sleeve of previous models. This never did anything other than protect against light scratches so is not a great loss but my advice is order a protective case at the same time to keep those looks that you spend your hard on money on.
DOESN'T sync with Realplayer, won't even play some MP3's.......2007-10-31
Very impressed with the new design, looks much better than 5th generation, and it's a little cheaper too..
BUT, if like me you have been using Realplayer for the last 3 years to sync music onto your ipod.. FORGET ABOUT IT.
At first I thought maybe i could get used to using i-tunes, everybody else uses it right?..
Its an absolute mess! everything about that software is backwards!
I spoke to Apple and they tell me that it was a fluke that all my old I-PODs ever worked with Realplayer at all! What a load of cobblers!
If you don't mind using some half-baked software that jumbles all your music up then sticks it up your I-PODs AR$E all back to front then go ahead and get one of these!
But personally i think I'll just stick with my 5th gen player..
Now, besides I-tunes being a heap of junk, there are actually major problems with the I-POD itself.
Girls Aloud - Greatest Hits
Lenny Kravitz - Greatest Hits
These are listed in I-tunes as two COMPLETELY SEPARATE albums, all the ID3 data is correct for each song on both albums. when you play Lenny Kravitz - Greatest Hits from the 'cover flow' screen on the I-POD, it seems to think that you want to have a little blast of girls aloud in between each and every song! what a joke!
On top of that, around 5% of my MP3 collection simply will not play at all! a track will play for 10, 20, 30 seconds and then the I-POD just skips to the next one! when you play that track again and fast forward past the point that it skipped at- No probs! it'll play you the rest of that song as though nothing had ever happened. I can almost see this thing laughing at me saying "what? i didn't just skip a track"..
Serious faults, which i'm sure that Apple will fix with a firmware update after a few hundred thousand complaints.. but until then your stuck with a half finished I-POD.
Ipod goes from strength to strength.......2007-10-23
I purchased this to replace my 3rd Gen? 40gb iPod and boy what a difference. The screen on the new 160gb iPod is MUCH bigger than my old iPod and also the screen is in colour. The 160gb iPod's screen shows a lot more info than my old iPod such has Cover Flow (I will mention this later in the review) and album covers. The quality of the screen is absolutely amazing; it remains bright in direct sunlight and is ALWAYS very easy to read. The excellent click wheel is still here as well; for people who are not familiar with this, the white circle on the front of the iPod has 4 functions on it, MENU (TO GO INTO MENUS, TRACK LISTS, VARIOUS OTHER FUNCTIONS) SKIP FORWARD, SKIP BACK, PLAY/PAUSE. Also with the click wheel, if you move your finger round it in a clockwise direction this will increase the volume level, moving your finger anti clockwise has the opposite affect.
Another criticism of the older iPod's was their battery life, but the 160gb iPod has a quoted battery life of 40 hours (I have found this to be around 25 hours in real life use) but this can vary depending on how the iPod is used, I.E. skipping tracks, listening at high volume, I have found the battery on the 160gb iPod to be light years ahead of the old iPod which had a habit of been on half power then not long after it would have dropped significantly, but the 160gb iPod does not suffer from this problem. When I purchased the 160gb iPod I chose the silver option, the finish is in metal with a frosted finish, so this should be very durable and also the build quality and finish are excellent.
Now on to the sound quality, and its all good, the sound quality is amazing, I would make a few recommendations here, one been, when you rip music off of a CD, I have found it best to RIP using the "APPLE LOSSLESS FORMAT" with this the music is ripped at a very high bit rate and as such provides the best sound quality. Secondly, in my opinion the supplied earphones are not really up to the job, so I would recommend purchasing some after market earphones; I use the Shure EC4 earphones and the sound quality is fantastic once you have found the correct sized ear pads, but be warned these earphones are not cheap, but I dare say that you could get some cheaper earphones and these would still be better than the supplied Apple earphones. Thirdly, to charge the iPod up you use the supplied USB cable (which also serves to connect the iPod into the PC when transferring music) but your PC has got to remain switched on during the charging process, which sometimes isn't convenient, so I would recommend purchasing the USB power adapter which sells for around £19, with this you can charge the iPod up using a mains electric socket. Personally though I think the iPod should come supplied with the USB power adapter.
The software that is supplied with the iPod is Itunes (which has always been the case with the iPod's) this software is used to import songs from CD and then on to the iPod, when you are importing songs from the CD, (providing you have an internet connection) iTunes will detect what the name of the CD is and also show all the track listings, so basically when you import the songs over on to the iPod, all the tracks then have names. With the 160gb iPod the previous procedure tries to get the album cover as well and if it does detect this it is then transferred over to the iPod as well; admittedly iTunes sometimes doesn't find the the album cover but if this happens I usually go on to one of the CD covers websites on the net and save the cover from there and them point iTunes in the direction of where I have saved it to; so your never in a position where you cannot view the album cover. Also another new feature to the 160gb iPod is the "COVER FLOW" feature, the easiest way I can describe this feature is that its like having a shelf full of CD's, and then flicking through them to find the CD that you want, I find the cover flow feature very useful.
Other features on the 160gb iPod are, Calendar which also has a "TO DO LIST" on it, with this you can also set the alarm to sound at the date/time of the TO DO item. There is also 3 games on the iPod (but more can be downloaded at an extra cost from the iTunes music store). Last but not least is the stopwatch (self explanatory)
I forgot to mention earlier that you can also purchase music from the iTunes music store.
Most people will not need the extra size of the 160gb and I was one of them, I was initially interested in the 80gb version (which is the same albeit a obviously smaller capacity and a thinner case to the 160gb version) but I had no alternative and I had to purchase the 160gb version as I could not find anywhere when I purchased mine that had the 80gb version in stock.
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