In this age of transportable music, the iPod has downloaded itself into the general public consciousnesswhere it will not be leaving anytime soon. Not that we mind. Notwithstanding a giant pool of credible rivals, for example Sony and Dell, who turn out their own slick mp3 gadgets, the iPod remains the most well-liked and top selling of the bunch.
The iPod Nano's storage drive is flashed-based, that means no moving parts inside ( reduced wear-and-tear and breakage potential ), higher sturdiness, and no sound skips while jogging, biking, or stumbling home after cheap booze hour. Given the accelerating capacities and capacities of flash drives, I would not be stunned if some day Apple starts implementing this technology into more of its major products. But that is for another article. The very first thing one is probably going to notice is that the Nano, as its name implies, is miniscule. You have got to basically hold one to see just how astonishingly little this device is, and my first thought was the little pocket of my jeans might now ultimately serve a bigger purpose.
The Nano measures 3.5' long, 1.6' wide ( smaller surface area than a Visa card ), and just .27' thick ( thinner than an AAA battery ). Swish and untroubled, the Nano is characterized by the easy class familiar to Apple fans. But the disadvantage to the finish is its proneness to scratching and / or fingerprints ( particularly on the black version of the Nano ). Weighing in at just 1.5 oz. you might possibly move the Nano across a leveled surface by sneezing on it, though I do not counseled this for health reasons. The main elements : Like all the other iPods, the Nano is basically built to play digitised music like mp3 files. And like its kin, the Nano excels when doing what it does best. According to my research, the Nano uses the same sound chip as the Mini, and as discussed before, overall quality is glorious. The included earbuds do a good job delivering the sound, though I might like top-end headphones to take advantage of the audio experience. Messing with the included equalizer settings also appears to make conspicuous sound adjustments, so variable sound connoisseurs may have something to grin at here. Owners of prior iPods should not have a problem finding a way through the interface, as picking songs, play-lists, and such like using the touch-sensitive click-wheel is still as user-friendly as ever ( but I abhor leaving behind those darn fingerprints ). Setting up and connecting to iTunes on both Mac and Windows machines was smooth and simple too.
In contrast to the iPod mini the Nano sports a color display as well as the same photograph capacities as the top-of-the-range iPod Photograph . This could have been a'just as we can' idea roughed up by the engineers over in Cupertino, as I received some strange looks while sharing my recent footage on a screen that is barely the dimensions of a postage stamp. But I fess up's an enjoyable feature to be included on such a tiny gadget. The Nano recognizes photographs in the following formats : JPEG, GIF, PSD, BMP, and PNG.
