Ipod and iphone can be a brand of portable media players designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The primary line was launched on October 23, 2001, eight and half months after iTunes (Macintosh version) was released. iTunes can be a media player, media library, and mobile device management application. The newest iPod redesigns were announced on September 12, 2012. You can find four current versions from the iPod: the ultra-compact iPod Shuffle, the compact iPod Nano, the touchscreen ipod itouch, and the disk drive-based iPod Classic.

Like other digital music players, iPods may serve as external data storage devices. Storage capacity varies by model, which range from 2 GB with the iPod Shuffle to 160 GB for the iPod Classic. The devices are controlled because of the Samsung ARM and also the Apple A5 CPUs.

Apple's iTunes software (and other software) enables you to transfer music, photos, videos, games, contact information, e-mail settings, Web bookmarks, and calendars, towards devices supporting these functions from computers using certain versions of Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows os's.

Previous to iOS 5, ipod and iphone branding was used to the media player incorporated with the iPhone and iPad, a combination of the music activity and Videos apps on the iPod Touch. At the time of iOS 5, separate apps named "Music" and "Videos" are standardized across all iOS-powered products.As the iPhone and iPad have critically the same media player capabilities as being the iPod line, they may be generally treated separate products. Throughout the middle of 2010, iPhone sales overtook those of ipod are component from Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard.

Software: Ipod and iphone line can enjoy several audio file formats including AAC/M4A,MP3, Protected AAC, AIFF, WAV, Audible audiobook, and Apple Lossless. Fifth and sixth generation iPod Classics, as well as third generation iPod Nanos, can additionally play MPEG-4 (H.264/MPEG-4 AVC) and QuickTime video formats, with restrictions on video dimensions, encoding techniques and data-rates.

Originally, iPod software only worked with Mac OS; iPod software for Microsoft Windows was launched while using the second generation model. Unlike almost every other media players, Apple does not support Microsoft's WMA audio format-but a converter for WMA files without Digital Rights Management (DRM) will get the Windows version of iTunes.