iMpressive
The new iPod nano is pretty. And awesome as well. For something that starts at $ 150, it’s a steal. For just a little more than double the price of a shuffle you get a whole lot more. This baby can store 1000 or 2000 songs depending on the capacity.
The 4 GB model is available only in grey but the 8 GB variant comes in red, green, blue and black in addition to grey. The hot pink from the previous edition is missing, but I’m willing to overlook that for all the stuff that’s loaded in this palm sized dynamo.
The new iPod nano has a 2 inch screen with the highest number of pixels per inch in any iPod. It also has a new menu which shows a display of various album covers on one half of the screen, while the other half displays the iPod menu. The new nano also boasts of games with world class graphics, a beautiful user interface and an entirely metallic finish. Then there’s the exciting new cover flow wherein a user can select a song from the library by going through album covers.
To boot, the battery life just got better. The battery in this thing lasts a whole day, yes 24 hours if you’re playing audio and 5 hours if you’re watching video. Which is still way more than even a brand new laptop will give you. And all this in 6.5 mm. The guys at Apple have really been working overtime.
This iPod comes with a pathetic set of earbuds and if you’re spending on a nano you should probably do yourself a favour and buy yourself a pair of earphones. Though the nano is a disappointment once you’ve used the iPhone or the iTouch, it is by itself the best buy considering it price range and it is a drastic improvement on the earlier nano.
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