Monday, February 09, 2009

ipod nano in 8GB and 16GB

The latest version of fourth-generation iPod nano has the same size screen, the same 8 and 16GB storage and the same video support as before, but adds a much more comfortable with it's oval shape, a curved screen, an accelerometer and most importantly, a much improved user interface that aims to solve some of the limitations of iPod Touch and iPhone UIs. This evolution succeeds beautifully.

About hardware of iPod nano:

The very first thing about this ipod, you'll notice is that how much better the curved body feels in your hand.The brushed metal feels great, looks great. This ipod also thinner, because it tapers off to the sides.Pocket-ability of nenos is definitely important.Games, which were on the nano before, can also access motion-sensing. The built-in marble maze game is as good as the ones we've seen in the App Store. The "shake to shuffle" feature picks a random song when you jiggle the nano, but is smart enough to not skip tracks if the screen is off or if the hold switch is on. You can of course disable the thing entirely if you're listening to music on a bulldozer.

About The software of ipod nano:

The portrait UI is also a great improvement over the the fat nano landscape UI, and makes much better use of the available real estate. The new menu and display fills up the entire top half of device, which gives you more list items at once. Scrolling through menus and Cover Flow is as fast as we've seen on any iPod.

On the other hand genius playlist creation, which recommends music already on your device based a starting point of any song in your library, worked well. When generating one from MGMT's Electric Feel, genius recommended The Shins, Arcade Fire, Radiohead, Beck and Damien Rice.

This generation comes in nine colors, which include pink, purple, black and silver, but no white. It's also the first nano to use solely USB charging, so old Firewire chargers are rendered useless. If you're into Apple and looking for a midrange media player, you should have no hesitations in picking one up. Otherwise, your current player will do just fine.

Some Disadvantage of ipod neno:

• You can't adjust volume when in landscape mode because it's locked into Cover Flow. Tough to adjust blindly when you've got the iPod in your jacket.

• The headphone output volume is slightly louder than the iPhone's.

• Shuffle by shake does NOT always work reliably. Lam looks crazy shaking this thing waiting for it to make the chime sound indicating its being shuffled. Also, there's a great chance that most people will never know to shake this thing—there are no indicators in the UI to let people know this is a command. (If you're buying one for mom, better show her how its done.)

• The glare due to the curved screen is more annoying outdoors, where you not only get glaer, but a slight warping of the glare like a funhouse mirror.

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