July 15, 2015: Apple introduces the sixth-gen iPod contact, trying to show that there’s nonetheless a spot for the standard music participant within the loopy, loopy world of iPhones and Apple Watches.
Apple calls the system “the very best iPod contact but” in a press launch, and touts “a brand new lineup of colours for all iPod fashions, together with area 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. Usually 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 digicam captured higher pictures. The system delivered a powerful 40 hours of music-listening battery life, based on Apple’s figures.
“iPod contact offers prospects around the globe entry to Apple Music, the App Retailer and iOS, the world’s most superior cellular working system, beginning at simply $199,” mentioned Greg Joswiak, Apple’s vp of iPhone, iPod and iOS product advertising, within the press launch on at the present time in 2015. “With massive developments just like the A8 chip and the 8 megapixel iSight digicam, prospects can expertise next-level gameplay, take much more lovely pictures and revel in their favourite music, TV reveals and flicks.”
R.I.P. iPod
Right this moment, the iPod is a useless product. The iPod contact survived for years, with the last mannequin arriving in 2019. Nevertheless, Apple stopped the music on the final remaining iPod line in 2022.
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