The iPod Hello-Fi launched 18 years in the past this week, marking Apple’s entry into the house audio market. In celebration of that birthday, new photographs posted to Twitter this week present an ultra-rare iPod Hello-Fi in a shocking black end.
The iPod Hello-Fi launched in 2006 with a $349 price ticket. It lasted just below a yr and a half earlier than Apple discontinued it. Within the years since 2006, nevertheless, it’s develop into considerably of a fan-favorite product that has held its resale worth surprisingly effectively.
Within the unique press launch for the iPod Hello-Fi, Steve Jobs mentioned:
“Apple is reinventing the house stereo with the brand new iPod Hello-Fi, the primary iPod accent that provides true high-fidelity sound high quality to the iPod. iPod Hello-Fi’s unequalled acoustic efficiency and gorgeous design is at dwelling in any room in the home.”
Apple touted the iPod Hello-Fi’s “all-in-one design” that could possibly be used both linked to a wall outlet or with “six D-cell batteries for true portability.” It featured a 30-pin dock connector on the highest, alongside a 3.5-mm auxiliary enter as effectively.
Apple solely offered the iPod Hello-Fi in a white and black end. The photographs posted this week, nevertheless, present the iPod Hello-Fi with an all black design.
José Benitez Cong, who labored at Apple from 2005 to 2011 and now works at Humane, posted the images and mentioned that that is “probably the one black Hello-Fi in existence” right now. “Most, even at Apple on the time didn’t understand we did just a few prototypes in Black. I imagine I ended up with possibly the one one which was not destroyed,” he wrote.
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