More convenient The newer iPod Touch family has almost twice the screen size at 3.5 inch diagonal. The touch controls make it more convenient to play games and it is easier on the eyes if you use it to watch video. The 8 GB version costs Rs.15,100, but 16 GB and 32 GB versions are also available.
Interestingly, the original shape and size of the iPod, now called the Classic, remains a favourite possibly because it packs in jumbo storage capacity of 120 GB which, for hardcore music freaks, means 30,000 songs. It sells in India for Rs.15,400 and when you calculate the cost per GB, is the most paisa vasool of the iPod models. The baby of the family is the iPod Shuffle, a mini version that has just one or 2 GB storage and is both extremely light (less than 16 gm) and wearable.
It s light on the purse too, with entry level pricing of Rs.2,700. While cannily offering iPods at various price points, Apple continues to bind its customers to the rather restrictive format of its iTunes online music shop. But this is changing. Many of the big music labels are offering their tracks in more open formats that do not restrict legal buyers in their ability to create multiple copies for themselves.
International lifestyle products magazine T3 recently named the iPod, Gadget of the year 2008 in a reader poll. But on Thursday last, another Steve not Steve Jobs, Apple s head today, but Steve Wozniak who co-founded the company expressed some unease at attempts by gadget makers like Apple to lock their products down with proprietary software and went so far as to suggest that like the transistor radio and the Walkman, the iPod would die out, after a while.
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