IPOD (120GB) Traveler’s Companion.... Packaging: The box uses a foam-padded interior with a hard plastic shell to hold the iPod in place. Once the shell and iPod are removed, you’ll find a white envelope with instructions, Apple stickers, and safety warnings inside, plus a sealed white paper pouch containing three white plastic accessories.
There’s a pair of iPod Earphones, a Universal Dock Adapter, and a USB-to-iPod Dock Connector cable. The USB cable is now the smaller-tipped version. These parts enable you to listen to the iPod classic’s music (earphone), fit into any Universal Dock-equipped accessory (adaptor) and charge or synchronize content from any USB 2.0 port-equipped computer (USB Cable). About Device: My black 120GB classic measures 4.1” tall by 2.4” wide by 0.41” deep and weighs 140 grams. It has 2.5-inch, 320x240 screen and Click Wheel and the Click Wheel is made from plastic.
It has charcoal gray coloration and back casing with 120GB badge on it. The device is made from scratch resilient anodized aluminum, iPod classic’s back continues to use a scratch-attractive polished metal. It has top-mounted Hold switch and headphone port arrangement as before, along with a bottom-mounted Dock Connector or USB connector port. General: A clock, play icon, and battery indicator appear as a screensaver when the device is continually playing; the clock’s font is unlike any other part of the classic’s interface. The split-screen interface works well in the iPod classic’s settings menu.
Commands such as “shuffle, ” “repeat, ” and “clicker” have explanations on the right side of the screen. The equalizer (EQ) feature isn’t adjustable by users, but at least the various presets have bar-style visual indicators of how they work. Sound and Video: The iPod sounded clear and cleaner at comparable volume levels. The pairs of earphones sounded rich and you will enjoy listening to the iPod and will definitely wonder how you never noticed some obvious sounds (like rain, flowing water or ringing of bell) in some the songs with some other earphones.
You need to pre-select whether a video will take up the entire screen or display in letterboxed widescreen mode. Status bars shows title, battery life and play/pause status on top of the video, volume, time/chapter scrubbing, and screen brightness on bottom of the video by slide in and out on bars that appear from off-screen. Video quality rendered a bit sharp rather than soft. The classic displays thumbnails against an attractive dark gray background, and they show up on an easy-to-view 5 by 3 grid, plus a number tally and date bar. At 2.5” on the diagonal, photo details are generally easier to see on the classic’s display. One of the interesting features has two options to the Video Settings menu, which enables you to select Alternate Audio and/or Subtitles for video files The battery life is as follows: Audio 36 hrs (As mentioned by Apple) however by listening at half volume level I managed to play the music for almost 40 hrs.....but not at a stretch..... Video 6 hrs (As mentioned by Apple).
I watched various videos for almost 7-8 hours not at a stretch this also..... Play: The iPod classic comes with games called iQuiz, a solitaire game called Klondike and Vortex. Vortex wraps bricks around the inside of a tube for your paddle to break with a ball or upgraded weapons, and offers numerous levels and powerups. Extras: The other extras are Clocks, Calendars, Contacts, Alarms, Notes, Screen Lock and Stopwatch. Clock: Three nice looking transparent clocks fit on screen at once. They’re displayed on top of a gray map of the Earth, and can display the current times in countries and cities all across the world. Alarm: You can set alarms to go off once, every day, weekends, weekdays, every week, every month or every year. Each can be labeled with one of a handful of names picked from a list.
Multiple alarms can be set up for your current location. Stopwatch: Stopwatch displays image of a stopwatch on the screen alongside a digital timer. You can peruse past records, with computed total, shortest, longest, and average times kept in a log. Calendar and Contacts: Calendar and Contacts synchronize calendar and contact data from your computer and displays them in simple form on the iPod’s screen, letting you choose individual days or people to see additional information. You can’t edit these details using the iPod classic, as the Click Wheel provides a very marginal input system. Screen Lock: Screen Lock is provided to prevent others from accessing iPod classic’s contents. It uses a four-digit code to lock the device, and can be opened by connecting to your iTunes library, as well. Notes: Notes provide light HTML-styled text documents that you can drop into a folder on the iPod classic.