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Witness the evolution of the revolution. First it played songs. Then photos. Then podcasts. Now iPod plays video, changing the way you experience your music and more. Again. In lighter, thinner 30GB and 60GB models new iPod is music to your eyes.

Better Yet

Time for the world’s best music player to take the stage for another encore. In 30GB and 60GB(1) models that hold up to 15,000(2) songs, full-color album art and up to 25,000 photos(3), the new iPod makes the most of your music and more. Yeah, you’ve heard that tune before. Only now, you can watch it, too. With support for up to 150 hours(4) of video and a 2.5-inch color display, the new iPod lets you take music videos and TV shows on the road.

More and Less

The new iPod boasts up to 20 hours of battery life(5), five hours more than before. Plus, you get a bigger display and one more iPod color — sleek black. But here’s the kicker: At under half an inch thin, the new 30GB iPod takes up about 45 percent less room than the original iPod. Even the new 60GB model is over 10 percent thinner than the fourth-generation 30GB iPod. More features in less space? Sounds like iPod.

Hold Everything

Now you can put all your music in your pocket and still have room for, well, practically everything else. Catch up on your reading with audiobooks. Browse your memories with photo slideshows, complete with music. Watch video podcasts, music videos and your favorite TV shows. Consult your calendar or look up an email address. Even check the time in another city or time your fastest lap. The new iPod keeps it all close at hand.

Spin Some Tunes

The Apple Click Wheel gives you access to your entire music, photo and video library — from one thumb. Control volume and browse using the touch-sensitive surface. Play. Pause. Rewind and fast-forward. Rate your favorites. Create playlists on the go. Launch photo slideshows. The Click Wheel puts everything at your fingertips, so you can keep your eyes and ears on the music.

Sync, Look and Listen

Playing your iPod is only half the fun. Try filling it with downloads from the iTunes Music Store. Choose from over 2 million songs, 25,000 podcasts, 2,000 music videos or your favorite ABC and Disney television shows, download them to your Mac or PC and sync them to your iPod. Add an optional audio cable to play music from the iPod to your home stereo or use an optional S-video cable with iPod to play VJ on your TV. You can perform the same big-screen feat with iPod photo slideshows. Oh, and you can do it all from across the room using the optional Universal Dock and handy new Apple remote.

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The new iPod packs music, audiobooks, podcasts, photos, video, contacts, calendars, games, clocks and locks in a design up to 45 percent slimmer than the original iPod. How, you ask? Just by being itself. Take a tour of all the features that make the new iPod the best iPod ever.

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Overview

With room for all your music and video, this iPod has both sound and vision. Of course, it also boasts stamina (up to 20 hours⁽¹⁾ of battery life), generous capacity (30GB or 60GB⁽²⁾ of storage), a great personality (intuitive, customizable menus) and a touch of genius (the Apple Click Wheel). In other words, iPod makes an ideal companion. Why not get to know it better? Just click on a feature to see it on the new iPod display, then read about it here.

Music

Finding and playing music on iPod is simple. Use the Click Wheel to adjust volume, navigate songs or browse the Music menu by artist, composer, album, song, genre or playlist. Want to mix things up? Just click Shuffle Songs. iPod makes your music look as good as it sounds, thanks to its big, bright color display. Album art appears alongside your songs in the Now Playing screen, so you see your music as you play it. After all, iPod loves music as much as you do.

Videos

iPod adds a new dimension to your portable music experience: videos. Choose from over 2,000 music videos at the iTunes Music Store, buy them for $1.99 each, sync them to your iPod and take them anywhere. Or purchase ad-free episodes of your favorite ABC or Disney television shows and watch them on the go. The new iPod lets your browse over 150 hours⁽³⁾ of video from the Click Wheel, then watch it on the gorgeous 2.5-inch, over 65,000-color display.

Podcasts

The iTunes Podcast Directory features thousands of free podcasts — radio-style shows you subscribe to — including favorites from such big names as ABC News, Adam Curry, ESPN, KCRW, WGBH and many more. Browse and subscribe to podcasts, then sync them to your iPod and listen anywhere. Thanks to new video support, even video podcasts sync to go. And all your podcasts appear in their own menus under Music and Videos, so you can navigate them easily.

Audiobooks

The digital shelves of the iTunes Music Store are stocked with more than 11,000 audiobooks — including such exclusives as the entire Harry Potter series — so you can download what you want, sync to your iPod and catch up on your reading wherever you roam. Browse audiobooks from their own menu on your iPod. Set a chapter marker when you stop “reading,” and pick up the audiobook right where you left off. You can even change the read speed to suit you.

Photos

iPod holds up to 25,000 photos you can sync from your Mac or Windows PC via iTunes. Use the Click Wheel to scroll through photo thumbnails the same way you scroll through song titles. To see a photo full-screen, click the center button. You can even view photo slideshows — complete with music — on iPod or on a TV via the optional video cable. Select Slideshow Settings, choose the transition effect and the music, then start the show.

Calendar & Contacts

Ever forgotten a doctor’s appointment or wished you had a friend’s home address handy? Good thing the new iPod lets you take all your calendars and contacts with you wherever you go. With support for Address Book and iCal on the Mac and Outlook or Outlook Express on the PC, as well as industry-standard vCalendar and vCard files, iTunes syncs your calendars and contacts to your iPod so you can access everything with a quick spin of the Click Wheel.

World Clock

The new iPod’s nifty World Clock lets you check the time everywhere, fall asleep to music and wake up to it, too. Open more than one World Clock to scroll between as many time zones as you choose. The clock faces even appear white or black to indicate day or night in different time zones. Want to doze to your music? Turn on the Sleep Timer. Just remember to set the built-in Alarm Clock to your favorite wake-up song for a tuneful way to rise and shine.

Extras

Your calendars, contacts and the World Clock appear in the Extras menu, along with a few more handy items. Take the Screen Lock, for example. Spin the Click Wheel to choose a four-digit combination and protect your iPod from prying eyes. Store Notes that sync all your to-do lists. Or use the built-in Stopwatch to log your best times. And when it’s finally time to play, the new iPod features four fun games: Music Quiz, Solitaire, Brick and Parachute.

On-the-Go Options

When inspiration strikes, feel free to rate songs or create playlists right from your iPod. To create an On-the-Go Playlist, select a song, then press and hold the center button until the song flashes. To rate a song as it plays, click the center button until you reach the ratings screen. Scroll the Click Wheel to choose a star rating and press the center button to save. Since iTunes syncs both ways, all your On-the-Go Playlists and song ratings sync back to your computer.

Settings

Customize menus, check capacity, change your language, change how your iPod sounds and more, all from the Settings menu. Click About to see how many songs are on your iPod and how much room you have left. Click Main Menu to select what items appear in your Main Menu. Tweak the built-in equalizer. Or set your maximum volume limit. Everything you need to personalize your iPod — from the backlight timer to clicker sound effects — appears in Settings.

Up to 20 hours of battery life refers to 60GB model and music playback.
1GB = 1 billion bytes; actual formatted capacity less.
Video capacity is based on H.264 750-Kbps video at 320-by-240 resolution combined with 128-Kbps audio.

Rechargeable batteries have a limited number of charge cycles and may eventually need to be replaced. Battery life and number of charge cycles vary by use and settings. See www.apple.com/batteries for more information.

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Technical Specifications: iPod

Capacity

30GB or 60GB hard drive⁽¹⁾
Holds 7,500 or 15,000 songs in 128-Kbps AAC format⁽²⁾
Holds up to 25,000 iPod-viewable photos⁽²⁾
Holds up to 75 hours (30GB) or 150 hours (60GB) of video⁽²⁾
Stores data via USB hard drive

Display

2.5 inch (diagonal) QVGA transflective, over 65,000-color liquid crystal display with white LED backlight
320 x 240 pixel resolution, .156-mm dot pitch
Support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously

Audio

Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz
Audio formats supported: AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Music Store), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3 and 4), Apple Lossless, AIFF and WAV
Upgradable firmware enables support for future audio formats

Video

Video formats supported: H.264 video up to 768 Kbps, 320 x 240, 30 frames per sec., Baseline Profile up to Level 1.3 with AAC-LC up to 160 Kbps, 48 KHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4 and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video up to 2.5 Mbps, 480 x 480, 30 frames per sec., Simple Profile with AAC-LC up to 160 Kbps, 48 KHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4 and .mov file formats
Upgradable firmware enables support for future video formats

Headphones

Earbud-style headphones
Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz
Impedance: 32 ohms

Mac system requirements

Macintosh computer with USB port (USB 2.0 recommended)
Mac OS X v10.3.9 or later

Windows system requirements

PC with USB port or card (USB 2.0 recommended)
Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4 or later, or Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 2 or later

Customizable settings

Customize main menu
Create multiple On-the-Go playlists
Adjust audiobook playback speed
Clicker playback through headphones
Rate songs
Shuffle songs or albums
Repeat one or all
Set a maximum volume limit
Sound Check on or off
20 Equalizer settings
Backlight timer
Alarms on, off or silent
Sleep timer
Date and time
Display time in menu bar
Contacts sort and display by first or last names
Clicker on or off
Photo slideshow settings:

Music from Now Playing, iPhoto (Mac), or iTunes playlists
Time per slide (manual) 2, 3, 5, 10, or 20 seconds
Repeat on or off
Shuffle photos on or off
Transitions off, random, cube across, cube down, dissolve, page flip, push across, push down, radial, swirl, wipe across, wipe down, wipe from center
TV out on, off or ask
TV signal PAL or NTSC

Voice recording settings:

Low (22.05 KHz, mono)
High (44.1 KHz, stereo)

Languages: Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese and Turkish
Additional language support for display of song, album and artist information: Bulgarian, Croatian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian and Ukrainian

Environmental requirements

Operating temperature: 32° to 95° F (0° to 35° C)
Non operating temperature: -4° to 113° F (-20° to 45° C)
Relative humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing
Maximum operating altitude: 10,000 feet (3000 m)

Input and output

iPod
- Dock connector
- 3.5-mm stereo headphone minijack
iPod Universal Dock
- Dock connector
- Audio and composite video output
- S-video output

Power and battery⁽³⁾

Built-in rechargeable lithium ion battery
Playback time (30GB model)

Music playback time: Up to 14 hours when fully charged
Photo slideshow with music viewing time: Up to 3 hours when fully charged
Video playback time: Up to 2 hours when fully charged

Playback time (60GB model)

Music playback time: Up to 20 hours when fully charged
Photo slideshow with music viewing time: Up to 4 hours when fully charged
Video playback time: Up to 3 hours when fully charged

Charging via USB or FireWire to computer system or power adapter (sold separately)

Fast-charge time: about 2 hours (charges up to 80% of battery capacity)
Full-charge time: about 4 hours

Size and weight (30GB model)

Height: 4.1 inches
Width: 2.4 inches
Depth: 0.43 inches
Weight: 4.8 oz

Size and weight (60GB model)

Height: 4.1 inches
Width: 2.4 inches
Depth: 0.55 inches
Weight: 5.5 oz

Design for the Environment

1GB = 1 billion bytes; actual formatted capacity less.
Song capacity is based on 4 minutes per song and 128-Kbps AAC encoding; photo capacity is based on iPod-viewable photos transferred from iTunes; video capacity is based on H.264 750-Kbps video at 320-by-240 resolution combined with 128-Kbps audio.
Up to 20 hours of battery life refers to music playback on 60GB model. Up to 2 hours (30GB model) and up to 3 hours (60GB model) of video playback time is based on H.264 750-Kbps video at 320-by-240 resolution combined with 128-Kbps audio.
iPod and iTunes are for legal or rightholder-authorized copying only. Don’t steal music.

Rechargeable batteries have a limited number of charge cycles and may eventually need to be replaced. Battery life and number of charge cycles vary by use and settings. See www.apple.com/batteries for more information.