There’s no getting around the fact: Apple’s iPod line—last updated a year ago—was in dire need of a refresh heading into this week’s press event in San Francisco. And Apple provided that refresh in ...

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 ...

We told you the Earth would stop turning, and it did. Apple, after the typical rumour-grooming hysteria that precedes every one of its press conferences, announced three head-explodingly exciting new ...

As flash memory and solid state drives become the new standard, Samsung and Toshiba have struggled to sell their latest high-capacity 1.8-inch hard disk drives, perhaps signaling that the end of an ...

In a couple of days I will be receiving my new, 80 GB iPod Classic. I definitely aim to use it as an external HD, mainly to carry files around (i.e. not for backup). IMO the best file system for that ...

While the death of the iPod classic is still unconfirmed, it was conspicuously absent from Apple's big event Tuesday, where there were updates on the iPod touch, nano and shuffle. An press release ...

The iPod Classic, also sometimes referred to as the iPod Video, is built in the more traditional iPod style: it features a 2.5-inch full color screen, with a 320-by-240-pixel resolution, and the ...