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The iPod was released on October 23 2001 and in its various formats has sold over 220,000,000.

The company decided that they would tackle this market as they found that the technology in the personal MP3’s were either too big and clunky or too small and useless. This is when Steve Jobs decided to get his team to design something that would work and be of use to people listening to their music on the go.

The reason that the pod was put into windows format too is because more people tend to have winodws than Mac. They scrapped this by allowing the 2nd generation to be used on Windows. They have since built many, many other generations including the mini, shuffle, and video are of course the most recent form of the player, touch. The real question is, how often can this success carry on for?

The sales of the pod itself have actually seen a bit of a dip this year and this is the first time that this has ever happened before. The truth behind it is that the iPhone can now be bought almost everywhere which is why the sales could be seeing a drop.

The pod sales are down but the phone sales are up but it is not to be forgotten that the phone comes with an iPod within it. Another issue is the pricing. With each new iPod comes a bigger price and half the problem could be that with the recession people are just finding it hard to come up with the money for a new gadget every year.

Insurance is important for these gadgets, which is why you should look into gadget insurance or even mobile phone insurance this could really help if something bad happens to it like of course dropping it. Sat Nav Insurance could also be something worth looking into.

The Apple Iphone is predominately aimed at the mobile market – and includes many additional features making it one of the most desired mobiles in the shops. Only available on the 02 network in Britain, the majority are ordered on prepay contract, but it is also sold on a top up model for around £450.00.

The mobile is based around a touch sensitive screen sensitive system, with the vast majority of functions carried out by pressing and dragging across the display. Incredibly, it will display over a 250,000 colours. The touch display is more developed than many smartphones in that it is multi touch sensitive, so you can tap two or several locations and not confusing the phone as with some equivelants.

The latest iPhone model, the 3G-S includes integrated GPS support, an upgrade over earlier tri-lateration algorithms used by preceding IPhone handsets. In addition, the 3G-S can operate as a satellite navigation system over and above its mobile phone features.

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That is just the beginning however – as you might guess, it is too an MP3 player – a very common MP3 player version. With its massive 16 gigabyte or 32 Gb storage (according to edition you purchase), the device can store huge quantities of your cds, downloaded podcasts, movies and tv programmes.

The i-phone gets its tracks from the i tunes ecommerce shop – i phone’s own shopping website which sells and moves music and movies to iPod and i phones mobiles protected by iPod’s proprietry format. Despite controversy from advocates of free content and anti DRM organisations, Apple has been extremely successful with their partnerships between their online store and iPods and their online store and iPhones.

Connecting to online downloads, consumers can utilise the integration provided by the Iphone’s fast 3G connection, or wireless if they have a nearby connection at the time.

Clearly the device marketplace has moved a leap further in being the all in one on the move entertainment gadget by combining mobile phone with music, film, gaming and programmes.