The old iPod was rightly praised for condensing its controls into one scroll wheel and five buttons, but the mini needs only the scroll wheel and one button to provide the same functions - its play/pause, rewind, forward and menu buttons have been merged into the new ClickWheel, arranged in the same intuitive north-south-east-west layout as the first iPod's controls.Īs a result, this may be the first MP3 player that can be operated while wearing mittens. Only the white expanse of its "ClickWheel" control still picks up dirt with the same ease as its predecessor. The mini's skin - a single piece of anodized aluminum in a choice of five colors - is fingerprint-proof and resists scratches far better than the old iPod's shiny plastic and metal. Beside the mini, the regular iPod looks like a Chevy Suburban parked next to a Honda Civic. It weighs just 37/8 ounces with its headphones and measures only 35/8 inches long by 2 inches wide by just over a half-inch thick. In return, the mini rewards you with a breathtakingly small size and shape. It fits in any pocket and quickly connects to any moderately new PC or Mac.īut instead of 15, 20 or 40 gigabytes of disk space to store an entire music library, the mini's hard drive, measuring 3.7 gigabytes, can only hold a 950-song slice of your collection - a scant 63 hours of nonstop listening. Just like its older sibling, the iPod mini stores days' worth of music in the MP3 and AAC formats, including downloads from Apple's iTunes Music Store. On sale starting Friday, it packs the old iPod's virtues into a smaller, lighter, sturdier, more elegant and cheaper design. That player is Apple's iPod mini, a $249 gadget not much bigger than a cell phone. After years of unsuccessful attempts by Creative, Dell, Rio, Samsung and others to knock Apple's MP3 player off its pedestal, we've got a player that makes the iPod seem like the oversize, clunky relic it (now) is.
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