The iPod Classic, iPod Mini, iPod Nano, and iPod Shuffle are probably dead to most people. Even the iPod Touch has been discontinued since 2022. Most people have moved away from burning CDs and ...

When the iPod classic and third-generation (3G) iPod nano were first released, many reviewers (including me and my colleague, Dan Frakes) noticed that the two new iPods sported a more-colorful and ...

Every time Apple introduces a new product they love to compare it to a common object that shows just how magically small it is. The MacBook Air fits inside an envelope. The iPod Classic is the size of ...

The iPod Classic line was the heart of Apple’s digital music revolution, defining an era of portable media players in the early 2000s. First introduced in 2001 as simply the “iPod,” it featured a ...

Ah, the iPod classic; the neglected member of the iPod family. It bears no clip, it doesn’t run apps, and it’s the only iPod that still uses a fragile, spinning hard drive. But it’s still chugging ...

This week marks an anniversary of sorts for the 6th-generation “classic” iPod. Not its release date (September 5th, 2007), but the date it was officially discontinued: September 9th, 2014. That day ...

Recent news about Apple discontinuing the iPod Classic was cause for some mild nostalgia among longtime users. Inevitably, massive music storage devices like the Classic (which held about 160GB) were ...

It's certainly true that MP3 player numbers are dwindling. One need only to look at the paltry variety of portable media devices on the Best MP3 players list to see this fact. However, that doesn't ...