| Released: | January 6, 2004 |
| Capacity: | 4 GB |
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| Connection: | Firewire / USB |
| Compatibility: | Mac / Windows |
| Batery Life (Audio): | 8 hours |
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First generation iPod minis were available in five colors: silver, gold, pink, blue, and green. The gold model was dropped from the second generation range, likely due to its unpopularity. The pink, blue, and green models had brighter hues in the second generation; the silver model remained unchanged. The first generation mini had grey button labels; the second generation had button labels matching the case's color.
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Janie on May 20th, 2008 at 7:36 pm says:
Crap battery. Durable though, i give it credit for that. I ran over mine like.. twice, and left it outside in the snow overnight, and it still worked.
Daniel on December 13th, 2008 at 1:17 am says:
I got my mini when they came out. Now it doesn’t have more then around two hours of life.
John on December 27th, 2008 at 3:34 am says:
These things seem HUGE now!
Dan on January 13th, 2009 at 10:31 pm says:
yeah john, they do. i compared it to my nano, it’s like a brick.
Katie. on January 24th, 2009 at 1:23 am says:
Mine broke (the battery finally crapped out last year) so I got a touch. Its so weird to see how much technology has changed in the past few years!
delilah on February 24th, 2009 at 12:46 am says:
omg woa! that is HUGE! how the heck did you haul it around? left it in the snow? holy wow….if u were really klutzy, itd be a great thing because it’d live through everything.
Christy Lynn on February 26th, 2009 at 2:14 pm says:
I got mine when they first came out too it really seemed like the new thing, but now that thing is a dinosaur after a couple of years. It’s huge!! but it is really durable mine fell in the toilet and still works lol. But the battery life sucks mine only stays charge about 30 minutes.
Shark Bait on May 2nd, 2009 at 4:04 am says:
I have had a mini since its release and have made sure to condition its battery carefully, and now on hold I can still get almost 11 hours of music playback. One of the most durable iPods out there, and easily upgraded to flash memory to alleviate hard drive headaches (my original 4 gig now has 16 gigs of flash memory)
Kayti on May 11th, 2009 at 11:23 pm says:
That was my first iPod and omg it is pretty massive now!
Dan on July 23rd, 2009 at 4:48 pm says:
Had one of these loved it, then hated it. It was Apples attemt at aiming the iPod at a lower budget market, but have you noticed it is the only discontinued iPod model to date! The classic, shuffle, nano and all the rest are still on thier feet. The reason for the discontinuation is probably as apple wanted to move to flash instead a hard drive.
Sgt. Pepper on August 14th, 2009 at 9:05 pm says:
i remember this. it’s huge now.
foxandhedgehog on September 16th, 2009 at 3:29 pm says:
The mini uses a mini hard drive with compact flash II interface. So the drive can be replaced with a compatible compact flash card — i.e., it’s “upgradeable”, unlike the nano, which has soldered on memory…. With some effort, the mini can be upgraded to 32 GB as of this time, all solid state/no moving parts….
bert on October 1st, 2009 at 4:17 am says:
people people u have to replace the battery’s every year on almost ever ipod!!!!
Alex on January 13th, 2010 at 2:48 pm says:
do you
bas on January 14th, 2010 at 10:49 pm says:
can u buy this ipod now a days?
ezduzit on January 23rd, 2010 at 11:41 am says:
wer or how do u replace da batt??? n upgradeable? really???????? how do u do dat??????????
ElennaBirkins on February 2nd, 2010 at 12:39 am says:
superrrrr chunky.
bas, yes you can. it will be tough to find one at an electronics store but, im sure you can find a few on ebay. & ezduzit, learn how to type.
-gary on May 24th, 2010 at 8:45 pm says:
Google around, you will find batteries, usually with an installation kit complete with a couple tools you will need, plus instructions. You literally “break” into the Mini, though it’s not as bad as it sounds. The batteries availabe are actually far better than the original 2004 batteries, rated at 750mA hrs, with an approx. ten years of life. You can also replace the drive and screen.
shea farell on June 21st, 2010 at 3:12 am says:
nice and big so i can put it in me