14 DAY TRIAL // Pope Benedict XVI is now the owner of a brand new iPod nano, white of course, gifted to him by a group of Vatican Radio employees.
The iPod honors the pope's first visit to the radio's broadcasting headquarters and was loaded with special Vatican Radio programming and classical music. "The pope's radio" celebrated 75 years on the 3rd of March and Pope Benedict was there to mark the occasion.
"We don't have a huge gift to give to the pope, but we do have small signs of our work" to give him, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican Radio's general director, told the Catholic News Service.
The Vatican Radio offers podcasts in eight different languages, and now the pope has the technological device to make plug and play access to those podcasts easy. The 2-gigabyte digital audio player was preloaded with samples of the radio's programming in English, Italian and German as well as musical compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Frederic Chopin, Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky and Igor Stravinsky.
The stainless steel back was engraved with the words "To His Holiness, Benedict XVI" in Italian.