Despite iPod’s widely expressed popularity, there remains a large portion of average consumers who do not use its multi-facet entertainment functionality to their advantage. Some consumers construct an inner debate when deciding whether or not to purchase something they’ve yet to experience as a gift to a friend or loved one. The average non-iPod user believes the small rectangular tool merely represents a hyped up tape recorder. Maybe it’s time for the uneducated to sneak a peek at iPod’s entertainment capabilities.

The iPod’s enormous amount of storage space and setting capabilities allow the user to cue up and listen to thousands of songs the way they user wants to listen to them. IPod’s digital sound and equalizer capabilities nearly match similar features of at home theatres. Avid users testify a whole new perspective in the world of sound through the quality provided in ‘ear-buds’.

IPod enthusiast set play lists providing different genres as theme music through out daily activities. Some consumers set play lists as they go, jogging may require an Alternative rock play list and studying may engage the user to cue up a Classical music play list.

Users can take iPod with them anywhere they go. The entire unit weights mere ounces and only stands about ½ an inch in width. Home music entertainment systems stand a chance of extinction against iPod’s Hi-Fi at home listening capabilities. Despite the size of the iPod Hi-Fi set, users claim booming quality features at their fingertips through remote controls.

Pod casts and books on tape haven’t been more popular since release of the iPod. Users can download audio books and other sound bytes directly from the Internet. The iPod even allows you to ‘bookmark’ the chapter you last visited to pick it right back up at a later time.

IPod’s now offer video capabilities as good as 2.5 mega pixels on colored display screens. If thousands of hours in music storage weren’t enough before, then, 150 hours of video or over 20k+ picture storage capabilities might be. Avid iPod users play ad free music and TV shows whenever they want at any point of location. IPods even offer interactive software such as user-quiz utilities, solitaire, minesweeper and more.

IPod’s not only provide great entertainment capabilities, they can produce daily activity organization assistance. Contact lists, calendar creation, to-do lists, world clocks and alarm clock access allow the user to stay on top of their daily regime with one small but capable electronic device. Runners use an inset stopwatch to help calculate time spent doing cardiovascular activities. Nike offers users of the sport-kit iPod monitoring capabilities regarding distance ran, calories burned, average speed and overall performance tracking.

IPod appealed to users as a great music device when first released. However, frontiers push further into entertainment capabilities and pave the way for greater developments. Car manufacturers want to include iPod in some of their latest models. Users can only imagine if iPod offered videoconferencing, satellite radio, or even inset Nintendo gaming capabilities. The average consumer can expect to get more from a small entertainment device if developments continue overtime as the more recent past proves iPod to be capable of.