Product Features
- Keep up to 5,000 songs in 128Kbps AAC format in your pocket
- Use it with Mac OS X or Windows 2000/XP
- Take it everywhere--it's only 158g (5.6 oz)
- Find songs fast with the Apple Click Wheel
- Listen longer with up to 12 hours battery life
- Shuffle songs in the main menu
- Play MP3, AAC and Apple Lossless
- Jog without fear--25 minutes of skip protection
- Save multiple On-The-Go Playlists
- Adjust speed for Audiobooks
- Sync and charge via included FireWire or USB 2.0 cables
- Use as a portable hard drive--take your files with you
- Accessories not included: dock, remote, carry case
Technical Details
Capacity: 20GBhard disk drive(1)
Holds 5,000songs in 128Kbps AAC format (2)
Stores data via FireWire or USB 2.0 (3) hard drive
Size and weight (20GB model)
Height: 10.4 cm (4.1 inches)
Width: 6.1 cm (2.4 inches)
Depth: 1.4 cm (0.57 inches)
Weight: 158g (5.6 oz)
Display (20GB and 40GB model)
5.08 cm (2 inches) (diagonal) liquid crystal display with blue-white LED backlight
160-by-128-pixel resolution, 0.24-mm dot pitch
Support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously
Audio
Up to 25 minutes of skip protection
Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz
Audio formats supported: AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 (32 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible, AIFF, Apple Lossless and WAV
Upgradable firmware enables support for future audio formats
Customisable settings (iPod)
Customise main menu
Create multiple On-The-Go playlists
Adjust audiobook playback speed
Clicker playback through headphones
Rate songs
Shuffle songs or albums
Repeat one or all
Sound Check on or off
20 Equaliser settings
Backlight timer
Display contrast
Alarms on, off or silent
Sleep timer
Date and time
Display time in menu bar
Contacts sort and display by first or last names
Clicker on or off
Menu Languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese.
Display Song, Artist and Album Info in: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish and Ukrainian.
Headphones: Earbud-style headphones with 18-mm drivers using Neodymium transducer magnets
Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz
Impedance: 32 ohms
Input and output:
Dock connector (dock not included)
3.5-mm stereo headphone jack
Wired remote connector (remote not included)
Environmental requirements
Operating temperature: 32° to 95° F (0° to 35° C)
Non operating temperature: -4° to 113° F (-20° to 45° C)
Relative humidity: 5% to 95% non-condensing
Maximum operating altitude: 10,000 feet (3000 m)
Power and battery (3)
Built-in rechargeable lithium ion battery
iPod playtime: Up to 12 hours when fully charged
Standby time: 1 month when fully charged
Charging via FireWire to computer system or power adaptor
Fast-charge time: about 2 hours for iPod (charges up to 80% of battery capacity)
Full-charge time: about 4 hours
Charging via USB 2.0 to computer system or power adaptor
Full-charge time: about 4 hours
Power adaptor
6-pin FireWire connector
AC input: 100V to 240V at 0.4 amp maximum
Frequency: 50Hz to 60Hz
DC output: 12V at 1 amp maximum
1. 1GB = 1 billion bytes
actual formatted capacity less.
2. Capacity based on 4 minutes per song and 128Kbps AAC encoding.
3. Rechargeable batteries have a limited number of charge cycles and may eventually need to be replaced. Battery life and number of charge cycles vary by use and settings.
4. iPod and iTunes are for legal or rightholder-authorised copying only.
