As the hype begins to subside from the outrageous price markdown of their specialized iPhone, Apple ensures to secure their popularity by bringing us the latest technology all wrapped up into their new iPod nano. Aside from the appealing color variety these iPods usually tend to come in, nine different colors now to be exact, it’s the nifty features that have you thinking a little on the Wii side.
These iPod nanos are slightly more on the interactive aspect. Just picture the Wii controller in your right or left hand, which ever you prefer, and imagine yourself shaking it as you play Zelda and you’re slashing away with your sword. Now envision an iPod nano in the place of that controller. That’s right, shuffling songs are now as easy as giving the nano a little shake. Even the games available on these new gadgets will let you use the tilt and shake options to play. According to Apple.com these games respond to the way you move. Although only one game (Maze) is included, the iTunes store will provide a wider variety of games to purchase.
The tilting option also gives you a couple of different viewing choices for your photos, landscape or portrait. Viewing videos might also prove to be more enjoyable on the high-resolution 2-inch widescreen display.
As featured on the iPhone, the iPod nano will also allow consumers to see album art in Cover Flow just by tilting it horizontally. Adding a song to the on the go playlist is now as simple as pressing the button in the center once the desired artist or song is found.
Alright, now for the greatest function this iPod has to offer, a built in DJ. Well, sort of. This nano provides you with Genius, a feature which will choose a song from your library that will complement the song you have just previously listened to all the while creating a playlist at the same time.
Conveniently enough these nanos only weigh in at 1.3 ounces and is 1.5 inches wide. Its physique is a curved aluminum glass design. Very svelte indeed.
The nanos start at $149.00 with 8GB, which technically translates into 2,000 songs, eight hours of video or 7,000 viewable photo downloads. For $50.00 more (taxes are obviously not included in these prices), the iPod nano will double its package in mostly all aspects, 16GB, 16 hours of video, 4,000 songs and 14,000 photos! Shipping will take a little longer on the 16GB nanos, but luckily shipping is free as well as the option to engrave. Apple is known for their price drops so it might be wise to hold off on this little number, at the very least for a few months, but then again that’s just me.
To accompany these iPod nanos will also be iPod touch. Its name says it all. Like the iPhone you will be able to scroll through playlists with the simple touch of your finger and it will also include built-in speakers for the gamer’s enjoyment. Genius will also be featured and prices start at $229.00 for the 8GB.
My iPod mini is now what you would consider obsolete. Usually it is my tendency to wait on purchasing these sorts of gadgets until they’ve gone through complete transformations, which obviously they have tremendously done so in the last couple of years alone. This nano has certainly won me over and is definitely going be my mini’s replacement.
With all of these new fascinating features and obviously in the color of your choosing, it’s a wonder what Apple might come out with next.
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As an added feature, by the time you finish loading all your music onto your new Nano, Apple will have released three more generations of it. :p
I like the writer's enthusiasm for the technology and the detail given is pretty well done.
From a graphic standpoint, the writer needs to figure out a way do so paragraph indents: the type runs together so much it is a little hard to read.
From a writing standpoint, I think a stronger column would have been to start with the writer talking about how this new technology was going to replace her old Ipod, then explaining why (perhaps contrasting the two).
Overall, nicely done and I look forward to more techie columns.
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