Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19625 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Apple
• Model: IPOD-MINI-SILVER
• Released on: 2004-07-24
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
Everything you love about iPod just got tinier. iPod mini lets you bring along enough music for a three-day weekend getaway in a package so small you'll forget you're carrying it.

Fashionably Compact:
Apple engineers squeezed all the best features of iPod into a case weighing just 3.6 ounces and smaller than most cell phones. iPod mini features an anodized aluminium case that resists stains and scratches. The case weighs practically nothing, but protects iPod mini in your pocket, purse or backpack. Recessed in the case to keep its surface pristine wherever you lay it, the 1.67 inch (diagonal) backlit screen displays full song names and more. Like its (slightly) bigger brother, iPod mini gives you over 25 minutes of skip protection and lasts up to 8 hours on a single battery charge. So you won't pay a penalty for miniaturization.

Can Touch This:
In fact, all the features of iPod are still under your thumb. Always striving for perfection, Apple engineers moved the iPod's buttons under the wheel. The iPod mini Click Wheel gives you the enhanced durability and sensitivity of the iPod Touch Wheel, with buttons underneath. The Click Wheel takes best advantage of miniscule space and lets you scroll with one hand though 1,000 songs from your iTunes music collection. You'll find such thoughtful construction only from Apple.

Autosync your iPod mini with Mac and Windows:
iTunes 4 lets you organize your music on your Mac or Windows PC and automatically transfer it to iPod mini. Whether you've ripped your CD collection to MP3, bought music from the iTunes Music Store, you can take it with you wherever you go. Your iPod mini includes both a FireWire and a USB 2.0 cable for high-speed transfer from your Mac or PC. In fact, you can move an entire album from your computer to your iPod mini in seconds flat. With the industry's only true Auto-Sync, your iPod mini is always up-to-date, mirroring the latest changes you've made in iTunes. And if your collection on your computer is bigger than iPod mini, you can let iTunes automatically choose a selection of songs to fill it up.

Games, Calendar, Contacts & Notes:
Behind the Click Wheel of your iPod mini await features that make it the world's best digital music player. Listen to your music as you fall asleep, and wake up with music or an alarm. Store a copy of your contacts, calendar and to-do lists on your iPod mini. Or keep anything from store restaurant reviews to nightlife guides, and news articles to exercise routines -- right at your fingertips. iPod mini also includes four fun games you can play anywhere, a feature you're sure to appreciate the next time you're standing in line or waiting for someone. You can even play your music as the soundtrack to the games -- Music Quiz, Solitaire, Brick and Parachute.

Manufacturer's Description
Everything you love about iPod just got tinier. iPod mini lets you bring along enough music for a three-day weekend getaway in a package so small you'll forget you're carrying it.

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Customer Reviews

You wont regret this purchase
I was lucky enough to get one of these back in Feb and have used it most days since and have very few compliants. I will not repeat what others have said as there are some very accurate reviews to be found here, I include below some info I would have liked to have known at the time I was purchasing and have corrected a few misconceptions :-

1. It does work with USB1. Contary to popular account I have a laptop with this version of USB and it works a treat AND it does charge via this means.

2. If you charge only via USB do not let the power run right down as the unit will not be able to mount as an external drive and charge. You will have to go back and charge from the mains.

3. Unlike its big brother it does not come with a 4-pin to 6-pin firewire convertor. If you own a Windows laptop with 1394 you will be very fustrated trying to get one of the above. Apple will not sell you one and I have found no other retailer who will either.

4. There is a piece of freeware called Pod Util which you will not regret downloading.

5. If you use Winamp there is a great plug-in so you don't have to use iTunes or Music Match.

Hope this is useful.

Fantastic Gadget
I imported a silver iPod Mini in March 2004 and have been using it now fairly regularly since then so I have had a pretty fair exposure to the device.

First of all, the size and dimensions. I have just measured the actual unit and weighed it on the kitchen scales so my values may differ from Apple's web site. My iPod Mini is sized 92mm x 51mm x 13mm and weighs 112g with device and headphones (including foam pads) or 132g when used with the belt clip. All in all, pocket sized and negligible weight. I use it when I go jogging and don't notice it there, it also slips into the back pocket of a pair of jeans and is almost unnoticeable.

The battery is quoted as lasting 8 hours. I use it at work and can say that the battery will last approx 6-8 hours depending on the amount of fiddling with the interface. The backlight if used will discharge the battery at a much quicker rate. I have not used it with the light on for long so cannot say how long it will take to use up the battery, but the light is pretty bright so I guess it would not last very long. However, you don't need to use the back light for normal operation unless you want to use it in the dark.

Included in the box you get:
- The iPod - 4GB hard disk
- A belt clip - snap on/off piece of plastic with a spring loaded clip. Feels pretty sturdy and feels secure whilst attached to clothing
- "earbud" Headphones - the infamous "Mug me quick white" coloured headphones. The sound quality from them is very good, good base and clear lyrics. I bought some "Sennheiser MX500" headphones to compare and I personally thing the Apple headphones are better. I also tried the Apple "in-ear" headphones and did not get on with them at all - so unless you are really unhappy with the supplied headphones you should be ok
- iTunes software CD - freely available to download but handy to be on CD. It is worth downloading the newer software (both iTunes and the iPod firmware) as it supports "variable bit rate" MP3s
- USB2/Firewire cable for connecting to PC or Mac. Be aware that your PC must support USB2 or it will not work - the iPod battery is also charged whilst connected to the computer. To give an indication of speed, it took approx. 20 minutes to transfer about 3.5GB of data from my PC to the iPod via USB2.
- Mains adapter - not normally needed if you charge on your computer, but it is required for when you do a firmware update

The iPod interface takes some getting used to - the iPod stores approx 1000 songs and so it can be a fiddle to find the exact song that you are after. I find it much better to create the playlists on the PC and transfer them across. Then you don't have to scroll through 900 songs to get to the one you want. I am not keen on the way it sorts by artist name but only shows you the song name on the display. The "calendar", "games" and "diary" are not really worth looking at.

Sound quality is excellent, the headphones are good and the base and treble are very clear.

Downsides I have come across:
- The touchpad is very sensitive and it is best switched off using the "lock" switch when moving about. This "lock" can then be a pain because you cannot just jog onto the next song easily.
- I took the iPod on a plane and found that the touchpad didn't work very well on the plane, it works OK if it is reset be toggling the "lock" switch but can be a bit of a pain - I looked on the apple support site and it said that the touchpad is calibrated by air pressure so maybe the variable pressure on a plane confused it?
- The most annoying thing I have found is the shuffle ioptions. You can select between: no shuffle, album shuffle (play songs in the same album in order) or full shuffle. I like to have a general "all songs" playlist which I like to have fully randomised but listen to albums in sequence. None of the shuffle options allow this. For instance, if the "all songs" playlist happens on an album track, then the remaining tracks on the album are played before shuffling starts again. Not the end of the world, but slightly annoying.

All in all, you are not going to buy an Mp3 player with this amount of space available for this sort of cost for a good few months. I have used mine for months now and consider it to be one of the best gadgets I have ever bought. I use it a lot more than I thought I would and recommend this particular player to anyone who asks!

(turns out the bloke who designed it is British, so another plus point there!)

WARNING WARNING!!!!!!
MUST READ the software ONLY works on Windows 2000 and XP (or better(or apple macs). i found this out the hard way but luckyly i had a kind freind to let me use his PC. I really like my ipod and im never out without it. The memorys large enough to fit all your favourite albums on although the batteries runs out a bit to quickly for my liking but it makes up for that in how fast it charges. Simple to use, fun to mess around with ,i would definetly recomend it to someone who loves music wants to be able to carry lots of music around in something that dosen want to carry a brick around.Light , stylish, sleek and no this isnt a commercial.