Listen to the sounds as you walk down the streets. Listen to the tunes as you work at that hot sweaty office. With the new Ipods now, you can listen to the beat nearly anywhere you choose. Where are these gadgets leading us?

The newer Ipods are similar to the older copies, except the devices offer enhanced features. Now you can store thousands of songs, hundreds of movies, and countless photos onto one little technical device. The nano is the smallest of the Ipods on the market, yet this little critter will store tons of music onto a single hard drive.

The three choice Ipods today are the 30-60 Gigabytes, Nano, which has up to 4 Gigabytes or less to choose from, and the Shuffle. Not a single Ipod has matched Nano at this time, but in the future, we can expect something new, since at one time Apple had a device that offered 10 or 20 Gigabytes of storage.

The Mini was discontinued at what time Nano stepped in, yet this Mini machine offered up to 6 gigabytes. How insane! The Mini had more room to download songs, movies, slides, videos and so forth, yet Nano took over with only 4 Gigs. Where we robbed? Probably not, since most likely something was lacking with the 6 Gig device.

Ipods today look pretty much the same as they did at one time. The only true differences is that the Ipods today have touch buttons, while the older versions were clickable. Now we have an automatic scrolling device, rather than a non-mechanic pad. According to few the first Ipods would only operate on Mac, while the newer versions are compatible with Windows XP both home and pro editions, as well as Windows NT, ME, 2000, and so forth.

Apple took advantage of the interest the Ipods received, by later offering carry cases, USB cables, and headphones. Most products sold before this only came with the USB cable. The prices of the Ipods seem to match at both old and new. Still, you can look around and locate cheaper Ipods over the Internet.

The only Ipod this far that has peeked my interest however is the fifth generation Ipod. This Ipod had all the equipment I need to have a good time. Not only could you listen to music, you were capable of singing along with the lyrics beating through the speakers. That’s right this gadget had a Karaoke Systems incorporated into the device. What a hit!

Sometimes at what time companies are claiming to make things better, they only set the better back on the shelves.

Outside of Nano, other systems are offered that seem less attractive. For example the 6 Gig which sounds good as far as storage space goes, however the screen is only 1.67 inches diagonally. What a short-y to watch movies on. However, this six-gig device had eighteen hours of battery power according to the sellers. You could store thousands of songs on the drive, as well as transfer files at rapid speeds.

Many of the Ipods came in the colors Silver, White, or Black; however, the Apple Mini 4 GB Ipods were blue. You could listen to the beat on a turquoise sound box. This device also had a smaller screen, yet the battery power outweighed some of the other Ipods battery life. This particular Ipod would only hold around one thousands songs however. Matching color over space, you could see most people would rather listen to the beat on a less attractive player with more storage space.