RIP iPod Classic: 5 Ways the Original iPod Is Still the Best. By Nicole Nguyen. Updated on Dec 9, 2014 at 5:01 PM. It's a sad, sad time for everyone who grew up in the 2000s.

For years I’d fastidiously stocked up this iPod with thousands of songs – I was an even bigger music buff in my teens and it was a ritual of sorts to spend my saved pocket money on two-for-£5 CDs from ...

The Classic debuted a few months after the first iPhone in 2007, and was the only iPod to still use the "click wheel." The largest size, at 160GB, could hold 40,000 songs.

Apple says you can fit up to 40,000 songs, squeeze in 200 hours of video, 25,000 photos, or a combination of all of those into the iPod classic.

The iPod Classic was something new, quaint by today’s standards. The screen is a low resolution black-and-white LCD and the hardware is little more than a 5GB 1.8-inch hard drive with some ...

The iPod classic’s screen is the same 2.5-inch, 320-by-240-pixel version found on the previous model, but battery life is improved significantly.

4. A lock switch that was actually a switch And if you didn’t lock it, your iPod would die in about half an hour. That switch taught us responsibility. Or, at least, to remember to charge our ...

This is the year the iPod classic will die. At Apple's upcoming keynote event, we're expecting the launch of a new flagship iPhone 5S , a cheaper plastic iPhone 5C, and a reduced-price iPhone 5 to ...

Apple's black 160GB iPod classic was the fifth best selling media player in the U.S. for all of 2010, suggesting that the hard drive-based device won't be exiting the company's product lineup in ...

The iPod celebrates its ten year anniversary in 2011. ... On September 1, 2010 Apple announced updates to the entire iPod line – with the sole exception of the iPod Classic.

This second iPod classic exhibits the exact same problems, yet with even more frequency. We can't even use it for more than 5 seconds without the iPod classic freezing or auto-restarting. We also ...

The classic, which didn't get any love today at the big show, is still $249 for 160GB. It's been 10 years since the iPod first debuted, changing the landscape of portable music players.