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- 8 GB capacity for 2,000 songs, 7,000 photos, or 8 hours of video
- Up to 24 hours of music playback or 5 hours of video playback when fully charged
- 2.2-inch color TFT display with 240 x 376 pixel resolution
- Supports AAC, Protected AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible, Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV audio formats; H.264 and MPEG-4 video formats
- One-year limited warranty with single incident of complimentary telephone technical support
Amazon.com Product Description
iPod nano now has a built-in video camera that lets you spontaneously shoot video wherever you are. And that’s just the beginning. It has a dramatic, polished anodized aluminum finish and a larger screen. The new Genius Mixes feature acts as your personal DJ, automatically searching your iTunes library, then making mixes you’ll love. Take iPod nano anywhere and the new Pedometer counts your steps. Also making its debut: a built-in FM radio with two amazin… More >>
Apple iPod nano 8 GB Purple NEWEST MODEL
November 14, 2009 at 6:59 pm
It looks beautiful, but my son dropped his when getting out of the car on the way home from the store. The screen broke, and Apple wants $80 to fix it. I can’t imagine such a poorly designed piece of equipment lasting any amount of time. What a piece of junk.
Rating: 1 / 5
November 14, 2009 at 7:58 pm
In something of an unusual nano upgrade, Apple has supplied it’s latest tiny iPods with a few new features…none more unnecessary than the integrated video camera. With owners of the more advanced model, the iPod Touch, longing for such a feature for some time it seems Apple has purposely neglected the demands of the consumer yet again.
The latest features of the fifth generation iPod nano are as follows:
- Reduced Price
- Integrated Video Camera
- Upgraded Flash Memory (8GB 16GB)
- Larger Screen (Now 2.2 Inches)
- Microphone
- FM Radio (Only Available On HD Radio Stations In The United States)
- Slightly Longer Battery Life When Watching Videos (Audio: 24 Hours Video: 5 Hours)
By adding a camera to the Nano instead of the Touch it seems the latest upgrades have been designed with the kiddies in mind. Looks like consumers wanting a camera equipped iTouch will have to wait another year at least. Sigh…………….
Rating: 2 / 5
November 14, 2009 at 9:56 pm
This generation of the ipod has even less battery life than the 4th generation. I was listening to it for an hour and a half on the lowest brightness setting, the 2 second backlight (because you can’t see what your doing without the backlight), and the battery was indicating that I had 4/5ths of the power left. That means I could listen to music for about 6-7 hours.
My 2nd Generation ipod last 24 hours with full brightness and a 10 second backlight! I’ve had it for almost 4 years, too!
The “aluminum” casing looks like cheap plastic, and feels like it too. When I got the 4th gen ipod in purple, it was beautiful. This one was so ugly and flat colored and textureless that I couldn’t even buy the blue or purple, I had to go with pink. The pink, red, green, and “gold” (more yellow) ones are the only decent looking ones. The other ones look very cheap.
But, the radio feature, while not having the best sound, is GREAT! The tagging of your favorite songs is even better.
In the end, I had to return it (just like the 4th gen). I listen to my ipod too much in a day to have it drain in a few hours. And what is the point of a beautiful display if you can’t see it because the backlight is off and the brightness is so low?
It might have visual appeal, but it’s not worth it if you have an original or 2nd gen or even a 3rd or 4th gen, because they all look and perform better.
I, unfortunately, will never be buying an Apple ipod again =(
Rating: 2 / 5
November 15, 2009 at 12:53 am
My biggest complaint is battery life. What kind of battery life you can expect from your ipod seems to be luck-of-the-draw. Some are good and some are not so good. I have my device set up to conserve battery life as much as possible and I only get about five hours of play. If the battery is fully charged and then left unused, it is almost completely dead within a week or two. If you are not familiar with this style of ipod, be warned that they are quite fragile; drop it once on a hard surface and you can bet that it is going to break. I also do not like the fact that Apple seems to be trying to force people into using itunes (which really bites). It does have some positive features, which you can read about from other reviewers, but I just find the battery life unexceptable. I am going to see if Apple will replace the battery via warranty. If so, I will probably switch to a 4-star review.
Rating: 2 / 5
November 15, 2009 at 1:52 am
Sometimes it doesn’t pay to shrink things so much… The Nano is almost too small. It doesn’t sound great out of the box, meaing you have to apply some EQ. I am not a fan of iTunes. Windows Media Player does a better job of sync’ing files with portable mp3 players. You can’t just delete songs or video from your iPod to free up space, you have to use iTunes which is a pain. The program wants to categorize all your music for you (and decide which songs should be sync’ed when space gets limited). Windows Media also does a better job of finding album artwork. Of course if you bought all your music from the iTunes store than it would get it right. I wonder if Apple does that on purpose?? Apple put the video camera at the wrong end of the device (it is counter intuitive). You have to hold it upside down when in portrait mode or flip it on the side and make sure you don’t block the lens with your hand when you hit the middle of the jog wheel to start/stop recording. To export your video clips you have to access the device via MY COMPUTER. Check out the Creative Zen players… they got it right.
Rating: 3 / 5