Is the shuffle really an iPod?

I caught a little flack earlier today when I mentioned I don’t consider the iPod shuffle to be a “real” iPod. Many people correctly pointed out the term “iPod” is Apple’s to do with as they please, and they alone should be able to decide what does and does not qualify as an iPod. If [...]

Review: 32GB iPod touch

The inclusion of Mail, Stocks, Maps, Weather, and Notes has transformed the iPod touch. Now, not only is it a solid and attractive portable media player, but, finally, a darned fine Internet communications device as well. The 32GB model may well be worth a look if you’ve held off on buying a touch.

Article: iDesign: The Art of JBL’s iPod Speakers

Gather tiny speakers. Place them inside a plastic box. Put an dock on it and make it shiny. Then quadruple whatever the parts are worth and try to sell it. This recipe for iPod speaker creation—attempted by hundreds of cooks over the past six years—is, in one word, stale. But before it became so passe, it was polished to near-perfection by two companies that defined the iPod speaker market for an entire generation of customers and cloners.…

Review: Altec Lansing T612 Digital Speaker System for iPhone and iPod

When the portable inMotion speaker designers at Altec Lansing released the non-portable M602 Digital iPod Speaker System a year and a half ago, the appeal was obvious: as a combination of metal-grilled speakers and an iPod dock, M602 offered an audio experience close to the popular, similar Bose SoundDock at two-thirds the price, with added versatility in the form of bass and treble adjustments, video-out, line-in, and USB sync features, as well as…

Review: iSkin for iPod nano 3G

Each of these three cases is based upon the same general concept: the majority of the iPod’s body is covered with a clear frosted layer of silicone rubber, with a hard secondary layer of plastic protecting the screen and parts of the sides. Thanks to unusually precise control over the thickness of each material at various points on the iPod, the combined layers enable iSkin to do what pure rubber or pure hard plastic cases cannot, namely, to…

Review: iSkin eVo4 Duo for iPod classic

Each of these three cases is based upon the same general concept: the majority of the iPod’s body is covered with a clear frosted layer of silicone rubber, with a hard secondary layer of plastic protecting the screen and parts of the sides. Thanks to unusually precise control over the thickness of each material at various points on the iPod, the combined layers enable iSkin to do what pure rubber or pure hard plastic cases cannot, namely, to…