Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Product Description--Posted September 9, 2008:With eight amazing colors, a new curved design, and great new features, iPod nano rocks like never before. The Genius Playlist feature finds the songs in your music library that go great together and makes a playlist for you. With its built-in accelerometer, iPod nano is made to move. Give it a shake, and it shuffles to a different song in your library. Turn it on its side to flip through your album art in Cover Flow. And tilt, move, and play accelerometer-inspired games (games available separately). Watching movies, TV shows, and video is even more fun on the sharp 2-inch screen. And your photos (up to 7,000 of them) look great in portrait or landscape view. Available in 8 GB and 16 GB models, the 8 GB iPod nano puts up to 2,000 songs or 8 hours of video in your pocket.
 With a new curved design and great new features, iPod nano rocks like never before. Click to enlarge. |
 Up to 2,000 songs, 8 hours of video, or 7,000 photos in your pocket. Click to enlarge. |
 Just under a quarter-inch deep. Click to enlarge. |
 Available in nine amazing colors; the (PRODUCT)RED nano is available exclusively through Apple. Click to enlarge. |
 Enjoy album art in Cover Flow, games, videos, and photos in landscape mode. (Green nano shown here.) |
A Musical Genius
Say you're listening to a song you really like and want to hear other tracks that go great with it. The Genius Playlist feature finds the songs in your music library that go great together and makes a Genius Playlist for you. It's like having your own highly intelligent, personal DJ.
Find Your Music Faster
It's even easier to find the song you want to hear. Now you can view your album art in Cover Flow. Or just press and hold the Center button to browse by album or artist. When you find the right song, press the Center button to add it to your on-the-go playlist.
Rock and Roll Over
Tilt or turn iPod nano on its side, and you'll listen, watch, and play in new ways. You can flip through your album art with Cover Flow. Or, vertically speaking, see more albums and artists on the screen at one time.
Shake Your Groove Thing
Sometimes, we could all use a little unpredictability. And now you can shake to change your music. Just give iPod nano a shake, and it shuffles to a different song in your music library. You'll always be surprised by what you'll hear.
Let the Games Begin
Now you can get in on games made especially for iPod nano and the accelerometer. They respond to the way you move, so they're immersive, addictive, and a blast. The iPod nano comes with Maze, which lets you work your way through vast mazes by tilting and moving. You can find even more games on the iTunes Store.
Even Your Photos Rock
Pull hundreds of photos from your pocket and share them wherever you go. Hold iPod nano upright and see your photos in portrait view. Turn the player on its side to see them in landscape. Your photos look beautiful in their proper aspect ratio on the vibrant, 320-by-240-resolution display.
The World's Biggest Small Screen
Watching movies, TV shows, and videos is big fun on iPod nano. And the high-resolution picture looks crisp and vivid on the 2-inch widescreen display. So you can always have a little video with you.
Reduced Environmental Impact
The iPod nano embodies Apple's continuing environmental progress. It is designed with the following features to reduce environmental impact:
- Arsenic-free glass
- Brominated flame retardant-free
- Mercury-free
- PVC-free
- Highly recyclable aluminum enclosure
What's in the Box
iPod nano, earphones, USB 2.0 cable, dock adapter, quick start guide
Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review
Expensive midrange high-end MP3 player, November 27, 2009
By
Josh BubblesSo you want an MP3 Player. You've heard iPods are nice, right? An older Nano might work.
Here's the rap: there's the Sansa Clip+, made by Sandisk, and it's brilliant. It's about a third of the price of this Nano. It only plays music, but has a lot more features (FM, voice recorder, better codec support) and a jaw-dropping increase in sound quality. It comes in 2, 4 or 8 GB versions, and you can put in cards to make the memory bigger.
Then you have the iPod Touch and iPhone. These buddies are in a class of their own - they're practically portable computers at this point. They play movies, music, games, the whole monty. They run a mini version of the Mac OS, for goodness sakes.
But what if you want a mindpoint between these two excellent machines? You like the Sansa Clip, but you want video support, or a bigger screen? Or you're inching toward the Touch, but you don't need all of that pizazz? If you want something a little larger, really want or need iTunes to manage your music library, and don't mind a small loss in audio quality, the iPod Nano may be right for you. It is easy, simple, fast, and just a plain good product. Apple makes some great hardware (I'm serious - this thing's design will make you melt), and their interface is very well done.
If none of that matters to you, get a Clip or Clip+ and spend the hundred you saved on some nice headphones or some new albums on Amazon MP3. The Nano is nice, but its price isn't far enough away from the Touch's low end product, and the extras don't make up for the hike in price.
LOVE it, November 22, 2009
By
Alexandra S. Daley (California, USA)
My son's 10th birthday was coming, and the one thing he wanted was an iPod nano like his best friends.
Not only was it the "best gift ever", I am thrilled that things like the nano exist because of my love of music...and it keeps desire for the extra hours in front of video games to a low roar. But now, he is more excited about music as well!
Being able to download SO many songs gives him a taste of different genre's; and he gets to keep playing the mass variety of songs he loves
He takes it with him everywhere he goes.
Right size - and do you really need the new 5G features?, November 21, 2009
By
mikeI wanted a small MP3 player. This one is still available, and meets the requirements for playing back songs. Didn't care about camera, etc. so wasn't interested in the 5G version.
Great for Books, November 20, 2009
By
G. Vito (Colorado)
Use the nano for audiobooks! What a great product. If I can easily use it then anyone can! Went from a cassette tape player to this--one century to the next! Love it!
love it, November 19, 2009
By
Sana N. Syed (FL)
love my refurbished ipod...works like new. haven't had any problems with it. had it shipped within 2 business days
