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Announced in January 2004, the iPod mini was the height and width of a business card. Built around a 1"

4 GB hard drive, the iPod mini raised the bar for portability in a hard disk music player. It was small

enough to wear comfortably on an arm band, but large enough to hold nearly 1,000 songs. For its small

size, Apple charged a premium: the 4 GB iPod mini was 9, only less than a 15 GB full size iPod. Apple

believed that its small size and consumer appeal would make up for its high price. As Apple hoped, iPod

mini's sold extremely well. So well, in fact, that demand vasty outstripped supply long into the summer

months.

The iPod mini was available in five metalic colors: silver, gold, pink, blue and green. it was based

around the PortalPlayer PP5020 System-on-a-chip, the same chip that would later power the iPod (Click

Wheel). In order to fit everything in such a small package, Apple had to change the layout of the

buttons from the exiting iPod design. All buttons were again made mechanical, and the four buttons

which had previously been at the top of the front face were now placed underneath the scroll wheel. The

result, which Apple called a "ClickWheel" allowed users to use the wheel as a touch-sensitive scroll

wheel, or push on the four corners to click the buttons.

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