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On the cover of the veelgelezen American periodical Newsweek, this is displayed soft Apple-boss Steve Jobs. To not to talk about its business or new woonst, source a sneak-preview of the hertekende iPod to give. Monday a new version is brought out by the music player.

It is not the first time that Jobs a place conquers on the front page of a large periodical. For the launch of the iMac with LCD-screen, he knew to snare the cooperation of Tim Magazine.

In a long article, the revolutionary design of the iPod is illuminated. More interesting are the details about the hertekende music player. It is the fourth time is adapted that the iPod. The small little brother, the iPod Mini, stood clear model. That is it best to notice at the new control wheel, With the different positions (as Play and Volume) on the four wind directions placed. The roodoplichtende position tests of the previous iPod-generation became through this intervention at the same time unnecessarily. The new iPodi loses a millimeter thickness.

What the large iPod however do not inherits of the Mini, are the colors. The music players of Apple remains only available in the characteristic koelkastwit.

Strongly the autonomy has been improved. The iPod plays now (just as by the generation for the last) twelve hour music. That is much better than the povere eight hour of the previous model, but less than a number of competitive apparatuses. There stands opposite that these longer playing machines often more heavily are. The autonomy increase by the new iPod would not come however through a heavier battery, falls to read in Newsweek.

At the capacity of the iPod, nothing has been changed. Rumors did the round that the player will expanded become with a 60-GB model, but there comes them to me nothing of in house. To compensation there gesnoeid in the prices of the iPod strengthen becomes. For Belgi are not the new price point known, but in the U.S. goes down the iPod with 20 GB of 399 (in Belgi: 448.99 Euros) to 299 dollars, and expense the 40-GB execution now 399 dollars instead of 499 dollars (currently 549 Euros). The instapmodel of 15 GB is scraped.

Meanwhile is known that the iPod 20 GB in Belgi 339 Euros and the iPod 40 GB 449 Euros will expenses.