Recently we covered an iPhone app that simulates the iPod interface. Although its creator wasn’t sure about releasing it yet due to the Apple review process, another developer came out ahead and ...

Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET in 2019, and is a member of the Home team. She is a co-lead of the CNET Tips and We Do the Math series, and manages the Home Tips series, testing out ...

An Android phone displaying the ClassiPod app set against a yellow background - Sam Beckman/YouTube We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. People tend to remember the first portable ...

The scrolling hardware so many people enjoyed spinning over the years has returned with developer Tanner Villarete‘s free web app, iPod.js. The Seattle-based software engineer’s app imitates the look ...

As great as modern technology is, sometimes it can be a bit overwhelming. Smartphones today are capable of virtually endless tasks and are light-years better than mobile gadgets from a decade or two ...

Apple finally phased out its iconic iPod click wheel back in 2014 with the music player’s 160GB iPod Classic variant, but the oddly satisfying, tactile scrolling hardware lives on in the hearts and ...

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Last week, a music player app called "Rewound" surfaced on the App Store, with the purpose of bringing back classic music players through downloadable skins, including the iPod with its classic click ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. People tend to remember the first portable music player they ever owned, and the first-generation iPod was a common first choice for many ...

Nostalgia: The first iPod music player was released way back in 2001, and it was quite the success. It performed well enough over the years to warrant several new models and iterations, each more ...