Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10359 in Consumer Electronics
• Colour: SILVER
• Brand: Apple
• Model: MB562ZO/A
• Released on: 2008-09-09
• Dimensions: 3.94" h x 8.00" w x 19.68" l, .31 pounds
• Native resolution: 2.5” (51x39 mm) colour screen displays
• Display size: 2.5

Manufacturer's Description

One size fits all.
With 120GB of storage, iPod classic can hold up to 30,000 songs, 150 hours of video, or 25,000 photos. That’s more than enough room for a day’s — or a lifetime’s — worth of entertainment. Available in quintessential silver or striking new black, iPod classic catches your eye with its sleek, all-metal enclosure composed of anodised aluminium and polished stainless steel.

	Meet a musical Genius. Say you’re listening to a song you really like and want to hear other tracks that go great with it. With a few clicks, the new Genius feature finds the songs in your library that go great together and makes a Genius playlist for you. You can listen to the playlist right away, save it for later, or even refresh it and give it another go. Count on Genius to create a mix you wouldn’t have thought of yourself. While you reacquaint yourself with the music you already own, let Genius introduce you to new music you’ll love. As you select songs in your library, the Genius sidebar displays songs from the iTunes Store that go great with it. The Genius sidebar won’t recommend songs already in your library, and you can preview and buy recommended songs directly from the sidebar.
	Hold everything. iPod classic gives you 120GB of storage capacity, good for up to 30,000 songs, 150 hours of video, 25,000 photos, or any combination. And you get up to 36 hours of battery life, so you can keep on rocking for a long, long time. With 120GB of space, iPod classic means you can always have your entire music and movie library with you. Carry it from the living room to a party in the backyard. Or take it on a cross-country road trip and never listen to the same song twice.
	Click to enjoy. Finding exactly what you want to watch or listen to is easy. Use the Click Wheel to browse by album art with Cover Flow or navigate your songs and videos by playlist, artist, album, genre, and more. You can also search for specific titles and artists. Want to mix things up? Click Shuffle Songs for a different experience every time.
	Watch movies and TV shows. The vivid 2.5-inch display makes video come alive. Purchase or rent movies, buy TV shows, and download video podcasts from the iTunes Store, then sync them to your iPod classic to watch anywhere, anytime. With titles from every major Hollywood studio, the iTunes Store makes it easy to rent your favourite films with a click. Standard-definition movie rentals are £2.49 for library titles and £3.49 for new releases. Rent a movie and you have 30 days to start watching it. Hit Play, and you have 24 hours to finish it — or play it as many times as you want. Rentals disappear when they expire, so they won’t take up space on your hard drive.
	Play iPod games. Put hours of fun at your fingertips. All iPod games are designed specifically for the iPod interface. The new iPod classic and iPod nano both come with the games Vortex and Klondike. Once you master those, why not pick up Monopoly, Uno, or Sudoku? Preview them free on the iTunes Store before you buy. With games on your iPod, it’s like carrying a whole arcade in your pocket.
	Share your photos. iPod classic uses iTunes to sync the photos you have in iPhoto on a Mac or Adobe Photoshop Elements and Adobe Photoshop Album on a PC. View photo slideshows complete with music and transitions on iPod classic, or play them on a TV using an optional Apple component or composite AV cable.

Box Contents
iPod classic
Earphones
USB 2.0 cable
Dock adapter
Quick Start guide

Customer Reviews

Outstanding value for money
I bought one of these in November 2008 (it is January 2009 as I write this) as a relatively inexpensive portable place to "dump" all my music. In other words, the 120GB capacity was the attraction. But what a surprise - iPod turns out to be a really great little device! So far, I have about 12000 songs on mine, and a few full-length movies, and I still have 36GB free. That's about 38 days' worth of continuous music, plus movies.

The user interface is very easy to use, and remarkably intuitive. Coverflow can be a little slow to get started, if you have a lot of music, and it's not as useful as it looks. The little colour screen is actually quite good for viewing movies. Of the three games incldued, the music trivia quiz is the best. It uses your own music (and the tag info in them) to form multiple choice questions. If you take the trouble to keep your tags reasonably accurate, and you find out the right cover artwork files (which I have) the quiz is very good indeed. basically, the better your music collection, the better the quiz is.

Anyway, games aside (they are a minor matter) the playback quality is excellent. I didn't bother with the cheapo headphones, and bought some Sennheiser headphones. The sound quality is now excellent.

Movies: It is possible to rip DVDs to play on iPod, by converting them to MP4 format. This takes about 2 hours and you need to hunt down some (free) software on the web to do it. The resulting playback quality is surprisingly good.

If anything lets iPod down, it is the iTunes software that is used to manage it. It is just a bit slow - slow to load, slow to respond to commands, slow to shutdown, slow to detect iPod... And for something so heavily reliant on MP3 tags for its music database, it has really poor tag editing tools.

All in all, this iPod is great value for money. If it died on me, I would immediately buy another one.

Excellent but wish I got it in black
I love my new ipod but when you scratch the silver one it is very noticable and finger prints and such show up easily, get it in black. No complaints about the actual product though, very easy to use, cool extras, charges quick, battery lasts a long time and it can hold a lot of music.

iPod Classic 120Gb
We all know what an iPod does. In practice? It's good. Everything works pretty much as you would expect.

The Apple earbuds aren't great...while they sound ok they don't fit into the ear very well (so the bass response isn't as good as you might expect) and they seem to throw as much sound out the back as they send down your ear, something to bear in mind for the considerate on public transport. I replaced the Apple buds with my trusty Sennheisers and all is well though I note Apple just announced a new earbud design with gel buds that look like they will give a much better fit. When they are going to be shipping with those I don't know.

Sound quality is very good, detailed and clear, much clearer than my previous MP3 stick. Volume, it's certainly acceptably loud though I would have liked a little more just to be able to turn up those quieter old 80's tracks...I find myself running it at max or close to most of the time (though it's probably good for my hearing that it doesn't go any louder).

The only real issues I've had seem to be around when it's hooked up to iTunes on the PC. Sometimes iTunes doesn't recognise the iPod and won't syncronise/keeps ejecting it, sometimes it recognises it when it shouldn't, reopening iTunes when I close it. iTunes can also get very sluggish with the user interface locking up for 10-15 secs at a time. Because the iPod is umbilically tied to the iTunes software, you must use it to update or access many of the iPods functions so whatever you think of the iTunes player, you are going to be using it.

I'd also like the ability to edit playlists away from the computer. Sometimes I'm listening to a playlist and something jars, I want to delete it or add something else. No chance. I'm sure it would be very simple to implement. Similarly an 'Add to existing playlist' option would be useful. Yes, you can do all these with iTunes, but I wouldn't mind doing them on the move.

Battery life isn't amazing. It's not bad given I hook it up to the PC every day to recharge but I've never really got the textbook figures from it. Games especially can drain the battery in a matter of 2-3hrs.

Games: surprisingly it actually makes a fairly decent games console, far higher quality than I expected. Games are only £4 from the iTunes store...well worth it if you fancy killing a few minutes with one. We aren't talking PSP/DS quality but certainly better than the old Megadrive/Gameboy generation. An unexpected and welcome bonus.

It's a little tricky to convert films/DVD's to work on it if you want to rip a DVD as opposed to buying from the iTunes store but there are freeware tools available online and I really enjoyed being able to put a few films/TV series on here. On a long flight or train journey that is going to be fantastic.

Overall, it's sleek and gorgeous to look at. I think this generation of iPods is visually the best so far. The hardware works well, the interface is refined and easy to use. In short, it works very very well. I'd give it 5 stars but there are a few niggles and it does crash/lock up with more regularity than I would like. But it is a brilliant little device and I am really starting to love it.