Countdown to iPod Mini

Apple's website now reflects a countdown to the iPod Mini's public release. The teaser page reads "iPod mini: The world's smallest 1,000 song digital music player. For Mac and Windows".

Apple also announced that the iPod mini has received over 100,000 pre-orders since its introduction in January. According to Phil Shiller, "The response to iPod mini has been off the charts".

As previously reported, the iPod Mini will be in stores February 20th at 6pm

Just in Time for the weekend... 6 pm which time? US or where?

100,000 preorders...pretty impressive

Now all Apple needs to work on is an elegant iPod-Dock for the car. Imagine putting all your fave tunes on the iPod and then docking it to your car-audio system... Way cool idea

Originally posted by ph8te
Just in Time for the weekend... 6 pm which time? US or where?

Unless Apple have changed their roll out this is all US only. Europe (and I assume Australia, Asia and other teritories) are not coming out till March or April...

Wow. I must say that 100,000 pre-orders are beyond what I thought the initial demand would be...nice!

I'm anxious to hear about the battery life and if they can hold up as well in jarring situations as a flash-memory player (such as working out).

Originally posted by ph8te
Now all Apple needs to work on is an elegant iPod-Dock for the car. Imagine putting all your fave tunes on the iPod and then docking it to your car-audio system... Way cool idea

Alpine has developed a stereo system where you can plug in and access your iPod. It reads the track info, your rating... it even recharges your iPod when connected.

Alpine iPod Ready

With a simple one-cable connection, iPod users will be able to operate key playback features from the Alpine receiver's buttons and have display of playlists, album, artist and songs on the head unit. The iPod can then be safely stored in the glove box or console because it acts like a portable hard drive connected to the head unit through Alpine's powerful Ai-Net system bus. The Alpine connectivity solution also provides charging of the iPod's internal battery.

Apple also announced that the iPod mini has received over 100,000 pre-orders since its introduction in January. According to Phil Schiller, "The response to iPod mini has been off the charts".

So much for the predictions by some that it would be an overpriced flop...yet again Apple proves the critics wrong. :p

I like the pre-order numbers. From what I've heard, the battery life actually exceedes the said 8 hours!

Hopefully this will kill all the "$50 more for...", "the mini will do poorly" arguments.