You do have to admit your requirement that you be able to navigate playlists without looking is quite specific.
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You do have to admit your requirement that you be able to navigate playlists without looking is quite specific.
I just picked up mine today and so far I love it. I am however disappointed with a couple lacking features: no look navigating and no games. Its not difficult to navigate, but while running (which I did), it's not as easy as it was with my shuffle and old nano. A playlist is highly recommended if you're going to exercise with this thing. As for the games, I realize the screen is small but it wouldve been cool to see some basic tap game on it (blackjack perhaps?).
Other than those two things I love it. Btw, syncing music and photos is uber fast. Just because it's small doesn't mean it transfers at slow speeds like the shuffle.
Other than those two things I love it. Btw, syncing music and photos is uber fast. Just because it's small doesn't mean it transfers at slow speeds like the shuffle.
Found out that the new Nano supports displaying lyrics just like the iPhone and iPod Touch. Not sure if older Nanos and Classics do, but I have a lot of lyrics in my songs which is nice to have on the iPhone and even with this screen size it will be nice to know that you can look them up when you want.
Now all I have to decide is if I will get one....
Now all I have to decide is if I will get one....
I got one of my new Nanos yesterday afternoon, and FedEx dropped the other off today at work (red one last night, graphite dropped off today). I absolutely love it. Very intuitive to use, and had no trouble at all using it last night at the gym or running afterward. I love the size and integrated clip. Perfect device (for me) for what I always wanted my Nanos to be, as I can't stand the tiny clickwheel that's been on the last two generations of Nanos. This new Nano fits right into the small leather pouch that my in-ear headphones stay in (in my front pocket), so I always have the device with me taking up no additional space. Apple kept all the features I actually used from the 5th gen Nano (I have zero use for a video camera or video playback on a dedicated mp3 player), and made it a smaller, more convenient size for my workouts and running. And it's almost like Apple is encouraging it to be used as a watch, with the "clock on wake" setting that's in the Settings menu. When that is set to ON, any time the wake button is pressed to wake the iPod, the clock face is shown by default, until you swipe away from it.
And to the poster asking about 3rd party headphones with remote, yes, they do work. My Klipsch s4i's work, as well as all my other headphones when used with my inline adapter w/remote (Belkin, I believe).
And to the poster asking about 3rd party headphones with remote, yes, they do work. My Klipsch s4i's work, as well as all my other headphones when used with my inline adapter w/remote (Belkin, I believe).
Haven't gotten mine yet, it's still in Alaska.
But I went and played with one in the store. Gotta say, I *LOVE* it!!!! Interface is much quicker to get around than the clickwheel and really the biggest importance for me in a nano is ease of navigating and easily portable. I have my iphone for portable device with lots of functionality.
I can easily navigate it with one hand, holding it and using my thumb to navigate around.
I think I'm going to appreciate this one far more over my fifth gen. Anything it lost was stuff I never used anyways. And what it gained was stuff I thought the shuffle was better for (but didn't have enough space and I liked having a screen). Shoot, even my third gen nano didn't matter that it was bigger than a shuffle, it had a better shape to fit neatly in any pocket.
But I went and played with one in the store. Gotta say, I *LOVE* it!!!! Interface is much quicker to get around than the clickwheel and really the biggest importance for me in a nano is ease of navigating and easily portable. I have my iphone for portable device with lots of functionality.
I can easily navigate it with one hand, holding it and using my thumb to navigate around.
I think I'm going to appreciate this one far more over my fifth gen. Anything it lost was stuff I never used anyways. And what it gained was stuff I thought the shuffle was better for (but didn't have enough space and I liked having a screen). Shoot, even my third gen nano didn't matter that it was bigger than a shuffle, it had a better shape to fit neatly in any pocket.
If the song has lyrics, when playing it will display three black dots on the bottom of the song, swipe to the last dot, and those are the lyrics.
I just bought mine today, wanted Graphite but those were sold out
So I resorted to red which actually looks quite nice. This iPod meets my standards, its what a iPod should be, a music player. And it does great as one. There is NO need for a Camera or other things that really don't make sense on a music player. If you want that stuff, pay the extra 50 bucks and get the iTouch . Its a great product and the PERFECT work-out iPod.One observation (total nitpick)
- The Nike+ transmitter which plugs into the bottom of the nano (and is almost have the size of the nano itself) is a tight squeeze with my non-apple headphones which have a sideways plug as opposed to the straight plug of the apple earbuds.
Perhaps this comment should be directed at the Nike+ product (this would be too easy). Again, a total nitpick
- The Nike+ transmitter which plugs into the bottom of the nano (and is almost have the size of the nano itself) is a tight squeeze with my non-apple headphones which have a sideways plug as opposed to the straight plug of the apple earbuds.
Perhaps this comment should be directed at the Nike+ product (this would be too easy). Again, a total nitpick
They REALLY should have made it just a bit bigger and put whatever Nike+ components are needed to get rid of the stupidly massive adapter.
But thats the opinion of a 19 year old kid who walks around with the sensor strapped to his shoe.
Tigress, it seems that you and I may be the biggest fans of the new Nano on the forums! As I've said, I love mine! And I think we may also be two of the very few fans if the 3rd gen Nano design. I think it was much better than the tall, skinny designs that came before and after it
As I've said, I love mine! And I think we may also be two of the very few fans if the 3rd gen Nano design. I think it was much better than the tall, skinny designs that came before and after it Tigress, it seems that you and I may be the biggest fans of the new Nano on the forums!
Yeah, it kind of irked me Apple went back to the stick form. I just don't understand why people love it so much. I honestly suspect it's people who just refuse to change cause I really see no advantage the stick form would give over a square form and lots of practicality reasons for a square form (no one dimension is so long you have to take account for it when trying to fit it in a small space. Plus, to me even if you were going to watch video, it feels awkward to watch it on something that is not symetrical since when you put it on the side the screen is all the way to one side).
Exactly! I always thought that if it was designed to watch videos on, that it made much more sense to have the screen on the device in a landscape orientation like the "fat" Nano was, instead of having to turn the device sideways to watch video. I thought it was akin to a laptop with the screen built in portrait orientation, with the standard keyboard below it. You'd have to turn the whole thing sideways to watch video. Would that be a good design? No! So why want it in an iPod where video watching was supposedly a design consideration?
Added:
Here is my set-up for a watch:
$8 sports band from Wal-Mart
With my RocketFish bluetooth adapter in the dock connector, and my Sony Ericsson HBH-IS800 bluetooth in-ear headphones:
This set-up got me some very confused looks tonight at the gym! As you can see, the headset is nothing but two in-ear monitors and a wire connecting them (and a play/pause, answer/end call button), and the iPod was on my wrist, where no one is looking for an iPod. My workout partners couldn't figure out where my music was coming from, as the headphones obviously have no cord coming down to anything! The only downside to this set-up is that the headset has no volume control, and with a bluetooth dongle in the iPod, you lose the ability to adjust the volume on the iPod itself as long as you are using bluetooth. But, it sets the volume at about 75% by default, so it works for me almost perfectly, as it's about the same volume I normally listen at, and I still have play/pause controls on the headset cord.
had to order mine online due to all the local apple stores being sold out. Will add this strap and this bt controllerand see if it works with my moto s9 hd's! really like those sony's though!
maybe someone will come out with a strap with the bt transmitter built in!
http://www.amazon.com/JayBird-iSport-Bluetooth-Adapter-iPhone/dp/B002PU9U0O
http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/10/...o-ipods-into-oversized-watches/#disqus_thread
maybe someone will come out with a strap with the bt transmitter built in!
http://www.amazon.com/JayBird-iSport-Bluetooth-Adapter-iPhone/dp/B002PU9U0O
http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/10/...o-ipods-into-oversized-watches/#disqus_thread
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My Review - 16GB Graphite
This is not the 6th Generation iPod nano. This is the 1st Generation iPod (something small but cool sounding).
Apple have re-focussed their "bigger than the shuffle but smaller than the classic" iPod to be a great music player, and it is. It's a great way to navigate through your music and I find it far less likely to zip past where I want to go - something I was always doing on the 5th Gen nano's awfully thin and weak feeling clickwheel. Seriously, compared to the clickwheel on the 4G nano, the one last year felt like a piece of paper over some buttons.
Holding the admittedly VERY large headphone adapter in my hand I can operate this very easily with one hand. With my in ears though it's somewhat tricky to work. They have a microphone/clicker/volume arrangement on them though so I rarely find myself needing to touch the iPod much.
Sound quality is fine, I'm no audiophile so they all sound pretty much the same to me.
It's small, light, easy to use and looks great to boot - for something that's just a clip and a screen it does look unlike anything I've seen before.
One word of warning though - this ain't the iPhone's glass. A small brush along the floor last night has scratched the screen on the edges quite badly. They don't go onto the display anywhere and are invisible when the backlight is on but it was barely a touch and it looks very similar to my almost ten year old watch face which has been through a lot.
Photos look nice but really, the screen is too small even for this. It's a bit of a gimmick along the lines of those tiny digital photo keychains you can buy. If you're going to put photos on them, crop them to square and they will look OK.
A few things I haven't seen commented on anywhere else, the background wallpaper can be changed but only to the ones built in. These appear to vary according to the colour of your iPod. The images built into my graphite iPod are primarily dark grey, slate, or blue with a touch of colour. They all appear in the latest version of iOS 4.
The interface is flawless, it doesn't stutter, lag or show anything but a willingness to do what it's told exactly when it's told. It's not iOS but it sure feels like it.
It doesn't play or record video. Frankly, who cares? There are much better products to do this than even the 5G nano.
It's a great audio player with a unique user interface and hints at what you can get should you feel like forking out a bit more cash and get maybe an iPod touch instead. I'm positive Apple would really like you to do that too. In the age of the iPod touch and iPhone, these players really are becoming less and less relevant. Small kids are now getting iPod touches rather than the iPod nano.
To conclude, I like it but it's not the new nano. The nano is dead like the mini before it. This is something totally different with a totally different focus. It's about music, it's not a swiss army knife of media and personally I think that's a very good thing.
And three or four years ago before the iPhone and the iPod touch people would be lining up around the block for this. Now, it's more likely someone would say "wow, look how small that is!" as they hand over the cash for their 4th Gen iPod touch.
This is not the 6th Generation iPod nano. This is the 1st Generation iPod (something small but cool sounding).
Apple have re-focussed their "bigger than the shuffle but smaller than the classic" iPod to be a great music player, and it is. It's a great way to navigate through your music and I find it far less likely to zip past where I want to go - something I was always doing on the 5th Gen nano's awfully thin and weak feeling clickwheel. Seriously, compared to the clickwheel on the 4G nano, the one last year felt like a piece of paper over some buttons.
Holding the admittedly VERY large headphone adapter in my hand I can operate this very easily with one hand. With my in ears though it's somewhat tricky to work. They have a microphone/clicker/volume arrangement on them though so I rarely find myself needing to touch the iPod much.
Sound quality is fine, I'm no audiophile so they all sound pretty much the same to me.
It's small, light, easy to use and looks great to boot - for something that's just a clip and a screen it does look unlike anything I've seen before.
One word of warning though - this ain't the iPhone's glass. A small brush along the floor last night has scratched the screen on the edges quite badly. They don't go onto the display anywhere and are invisible when the backlight is on but it was barely a touch and it looks very similar to my almost ten year old watch face which has been through a lot.
Photos look nice but really, the screen is too small even for this. It's a bit of a gimmick along the lines of those tiny digital photo keychains you can buy. If you're going to put photos on them, crop them to square and they will look OK.
A few things I haven't seen commented on anywhere else, the background wallpaper can be changed but only to the ones built in. These appear to vary according to the colour of your iPod. The images built into my graphite iPod are primarily dark grey, slate, or blue with a touch of colour. They all appear in the latest version of iOS 4.
The interface is flawless, it doesn't stutter, lag or show anything but a willingness to do what it's told exactly when it's told. It's not iOS but it sure feels like it.
It doesn't play or record video. Frankly, who cares? There are much better products to do this than even the 5G nano.
It's a great audio player with a unique user interface and hints at what you can get should you feel like forking out a bit more cash and get maybe an iPod touch instead. I'm positive Apple would really like you to do that too. In the age of the iPod touch and iPhone, these players really are becoming less and less relevant. Small kids are now getting iPod touches rather than the iPod nano.
To conclude, I like it but it's not the new nano. The nano is dead like the mini before it. This is something totally different with a totally different focus. It's about music, it's not a swiss army knife of media and personally I think that's a very good thing.
And three or four years ago before the iPhone and the iPod touch people would be lining up around the block for this. Now, it's more likely someone would say "wow, look how small that is!" as they hand over the cash for their 4th Gen iPod touch.
I agree with everything you said in your post. I've said from the moment it was announced that the 5th gen Nano should have remained, and this new Nano introduced as a Shuffle+ (plus), or a new lineup altogether. The Shuffle+ works better, as it can be sold as an upscale Shuffle, keeping the same iPod lines as they have now. The Nano could have then lived on in the old form as the device that phases out the Classic in the near future.
Agreed. On the 5G and 4G Nanos, they kept adding features to 'improve' it for sales and marketing. This is the real improvement. But I do think it is the new Nano. They actually made it much smaller, and that is the key feature they added.
BTW, Graphite is the best color.
Calling it anything else would have gone against the grain of the whole concept of the Nano, and calling it something like a Shuffle+ would have piggybacked it unnecessarily onto the Shuffle and weakened its marketability.
IMHO, they got it right. With one exception. As the true workout, running iPod that just clips on, they needed to put the Nike+ chip in there somehow. Just like the iPhone and Touch, free us from the dongle.
Mine was supposed to have been here today (2 day shipping) but it got delayed in China, and now is somewhere in Alaska and hasn't had a tracking update since yesterday
Mine was supposed to have been here today (2 day shipping) but it got delayed in China, and now is somewhere in Alaska and hasn't had a tracking update since yesterday
Mine got delayed in China but it didn't change the date... next Tuesday (and it got ordered the day they announced the Nanos). Mine's in Alaska too still (though in transit was its last update).
Maybe they are on the same plane
My date said September 10th by noon
I really wanted it today since when it arrives is the day I start running again (ew...hate running...)I went and played with one today, and I have a question for the people who have one.
Is it possible to play the music on album shuffle? I think I'm in the minority of people who listen like this, but I like listening to albums. So, I want to hear the whole album of one band and have it shuffle to another album for another band. Is this still possible?
Is it possible to play the music on album shuffle? I think I'm in the minority of people who listen like this, but I like listening to albums. So, I want to hear the whole album of one band and have it shuffle to another album for another band. Is this still possible?
This is why I still am only going to use mine as a "watch" when I'm working out/running. There are far too many ways to get it wet accidentally wearing it as a watch all the time.
Do you suppose this nano may incur "water damage" easier due to sweat. I'm thinking of getting my sister one for Christmas. She's still rockin' the 3rd gen.
I don't see any reason for it to be any more prone to sweat entry than previous Nanos. Even when wearing mine as a watch during a workout/run, it's up off the surface of my skin a fair distance when mounted on the wristband. Plus, it has the band itself to block/absorb sweat before entering the dock connector or headphone port. It's hard for me to say, as I don't sweat a great deal anyway, even when running in these ridiculous Georgia summer temps. I can go for a 8 mile run and have my shirt only be slightly damp in a few places. I don't know why I don't sweat a lot, but I never have.