Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #45708 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Apple
• Model: M9830B/A
• Released on: 2005-02-23
• Dimensions: .50 pounds
• Display size: 2

Manufacturer's Description
Remember the 64-colour pack of crayons? Meet the 65,536-colour pack. Everything looks better in colour. With iPod photo, everything sounds better, too. Carry an entire library of music up to 15,000 songs and full-colour album cover art or as many as 25,000 photos in your pocket.

Picture Your Music
The original iPod changed the way you listen to music by putting thousands of songs in your pocket. Now iPod photo changes the way you see your music, with a crisp colour screen. Browse your playlists via vivid menus, thumb through album and audiobook cover art on the go, even play games and view your calendars in colour. Of course, iPod photo also lets you carry memories along with your music. Upload photos from your Mac or PC and view them in colour, anywhere, complete with built-in backlighting. Your personal, portable entertainment library, iPod photo looks as good as it sounds.

Take It for a Spin
Like its famous siblings, iPod photo features the touch-sensitive Apple Click Wheel that's the envy of the industry. Use it to navigate your music and photos in 65,536 colours. Easier to read than ever, the iPod photo's display boasts 220x176-pixel resolution. Spin the wheel to Music and scroll effortlessly through dozens of playlists, hundreds of albums or thousand of songs.

Or highlight photos. iPod photo displays 25 full-colour thumbnails at a time. And you can scroll through them the same way you scroll through song titles. Quickly. Just spin the wheel to see more. And when you see a photo you'd like displayed all by its lonesome, just click the centre button and voilà. No one will have to say cheese as long as you have iPod photo around. Whether you're listening to tunes or checking out photos, you're sure to be all smiles.

Get Brownie Points for Sharing
If you'd like everyone else to smile right along with you, iPod photo makes it easy. Sure, you could let them take the Click Wheel for a spin themselves, but here's a way to get extra points for style. Use an optional AV cable to connect iPod photo to a projector or TV. You can mesmerize friends and family with a glorious multimedia experience, offering them a breathtaking slideshow accompanied by the music you already have on your iPod photo. Of course, you get to choose the songs, albums or playlists. And talk about smart, iPod photo optimizes your photos to fit on a standard (4:3) or widescreen (16:9) TV.

Sync, Look and Listen
iTunes lets you import your images directly into iPod photo from a folder on the hard drive of your Mac or PC. Spent time organizing your photos using iPhoto on a Mac or either Adobe Album 2.0 or Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 on a PC? iTunes rewards your diligence by importing the photo albums you've created in iPhoto or collections created in Album or Photoshop Elements. You'll be able to choose them from the Photos menu on iPod photo.

Wait, there's more. iPod photo features even more robust Auto-Sync capabilities. Now, in addition to offering the industry's best music syncing, iTunes offers stellar photo syncing, as well. Update your photo collection by adding images or creating new albums, and the next time you connect iPod photo to your Mac or PC using the included USB 2.0 or optional FireWire cable, iTunes will automatically synchronize your photo collection. And did we mention that iTunes 4.7.1 also autosyncs album cover art? It's true. The cover art downloaded when you purchase music from the iTunes Music Store is transferred to iPod photo along with the music. So while iPod photo plays your tunes, you can enjoy the album art in colour, of course on the Now Playing screen.

Enjoy Improved Battery Life
Whether you're on a transcontinental flight or an extra long hike, if you plan to listen to music for hours and hours, iPod photo has you covered. Fully charged, it lets you enjoy up to 15 hours of continuous music; or up to 5 hours of continuous slideshows with music.(2) Use the included USB 2.0, optional FireWire cable or handy iPod photo Dock to quickly charge the batteries.

1. Music capacity is based on 4 minutes per song and 128-Kbps AAC encoding; photo capacity is based on iPod-viewable photos transferred from iTunes.

2. Rechargeable batteries have a limited number of charge cycles and may eventually need to be replaced. Battery life and the number of charge cycles vary by use and settings.

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Customer Reviews

Ipod 60gb Photo
This really is a superb product, I have the creative lab Zen Nomad Extra also and I can't believe how easy the ipod menu system is. The photo's look great and scroll through really quickly. I have over 13 gigs of Photo's and about the same in music and the system runs really well.

I agree about the photo software, it really should be supplied! However, most people use windows XP these days and the photo capabilities are excellent so you won't have to use any additional software, just get the supplied iTUNES to synch with your My Pictures in windows and away you go.

Too damn big for its boots
At first glance,this 60gig monster(In colour),seems like the perfect mp3 player. beautiful, classy, easy to use and HUGE. However, this all become rather redundant when the damn thing overheats after a couple of months.
And dont rely on the warrenty for that either; I know several people who [used to] own this model and while most spluttered to death within a year, mine happily bumbled along for a year and a week, then gave up the ghost and left me with nothing but and an extraordinaly expensive lump of metal and the horrible feeling that Id been had.

Beware the missing software for photos
Buying an Ipod Photo 60 is like buying a top of the range Mercedes that has only three wheels. The music side of the Ipod is fantastic but when it comes to the photo side the software for the Photo operation is missing. The result of this is that I spent the best part of my Sunday trying to operate the photo area only to discover in conversation with the Ipod support team that the software is not included in the package - this applies to all PC users that do not operate a Mac computer - which is the vast majority.
When will these manufacturers get off their high horse and realise that the customer is first and that they must supply the right kit.
The instructions both online and in the booklet are not in the least bit clear on this and I now have to go and buy a photo software package from Adobe for $99.99. Not happy.