Analysis:

So far I'm loving my new nano...one of the things I love which is so basic is the battery life...My old ipod would be totally dead after a 5-6 hour work day and with my new nano I have plenty of battery life left. I definitely think it was a great purchase the toughest part is choosing a color. I went with the yellow...It looks like a little brick of gold :) I love gold!

Honestly, having a camera in the nano is great- its for convinience. the FLIP cant do much more than take video- the nano can do so much more. i wish people would stop comparing- its a basic camera- just for fun!

The first thing you notice about the new nano is it’s packaging. Enclosed in a clear plastic coffin, it looks like a popstar’s glittery corpse laying in state.

Open up the acrylic box, and there’s only a few items inside: the iPod, earbuds, charging cord, accessory adapter and an instruction booklet. It’s refreshing, actually, how little crap is in there. Apple’s packaging can be irritatingly fussy. This ain’t.
The new iPod nano is a slick piece of hardware. The colored aluminum shell is bright and shiny. It’s extremely well made. There are no gaps or seams or flimsy tabs that might fall off. It feels solid and expensive, but also very small and light.

In fact, it’s almost too small and light. It’s built for womens’ or kids’ hands, not big meaty paws like mine.

The first thing I tested was the video of course. Video recording is the blockbuster new feature. It’s dead simple to start recording, and the video is bright, sharp and detailed, even if it is only VGA (640 x 480).

The camera transitions well between sunlight and indoors, and the microphone picks up sound well — almost too well. It recorded all the rustling from my fingers and quiet swearing under my breath.

This was weird: It was impossible to figure out how to use the built-in special effects. I even had the concierge at the Apple Store stumped. The secret is to enable the video camera and then press and HOLD the center button. Up pops 15 special effects, including Cyborg, X-Ray, Thermal, Security Camera and Film Grain.

The effects are a ton of fun. In the past I’ve found effects gimmicky, but here they make perfect sense.

The bad: Almost too small and light for clumsy middle-aged fingers. No still pictures. The tinny little speaker is so weak, it’ll waken only the lightest sleepers.

Conclusion: Truly impressive how much technology has been crammed into such a small device. If the nano took still pictures, it’d be perfect.

The iPod nano comes in two sizes: 8GB for $149 and $16GB for $179.

The other mp3 players are just a wastage of money as compared to the new 5G nano.

Comparison :

iPod nano doesn’t actually have anything to do with nanotechnology. Nor is it the smallest player on the market, by a long-shot. It isn’t even the smallest player from Apple, that would be the iPod shuffle. Nor is it even the only nano on the market (Hi, Creative!). From the tiny 0.73 cubic-inch YP-F1Z from Samsung, to the relatively gargantuan (by Lilliputian standards, at least) 3.65 cubic-inch Walkman Bean from Sony, we are awash in super-small flash players capable of holding a few hours worth of our favorite music.

So what does the iPod nano bring to the table? Well, a brilliant color display for starters. There are only a handful of micro-sized flash players, such as Creative’s new MuVo Vidz or Samsung’s YP T8, with full color displays (and those two offer video to boot). That’s followed by 4 GB of storage, the revolutionary oft-copied interface, seamless iTunes integration, and, of course, an unbelievably small form factor. Oh, and now it comes in Bono black.

Yet for all that, there are plenty of similar players out there, both in terms of size and feature sets.
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