iPod Nano

az_bont · Post by **az_bont** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 2:37 pm

I don't know if anyone posted about the news of Apple purchasing massive amounts of flash memory a few weeks ago, but they've certainly put it to good use.

Its available in 2GB and 4GB versions, and replaces the iPod Mini.

http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 2:40 pm

Cool. 14 hours is better, but not amazing

az_bont · Post by **az_bont** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 2:42 pm

The last generation of iPod Minis had 18 hour batteries.

MKE · Post by **MKE** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 2:43 pm

i clocked my new 20 gig ipod photo/color to 15 hours 23 min of battery life with it on play shuffleing my entire collection (2300 songs) with the hold switch "on"...

it looks ugly...atleast in that pic above. it looks like someone streched out the standard ipod....

MulletMan13 · Post by **MulletMan13** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 3:56 pm

That is very very small... and they make a black version too... Mmmm

Sir C.A.T · Post by **Sir C.A.T** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 4:01 pm

nano

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/nan'oh/ 1. <unit> A prefix meaning 10^-9 or one billionth.

Used loosely to mean "small", e.g. nanotechnology, or
(rarely), following "nanosecond", to mean a short time,
e.g. "I'll be with you in a nano".

I'll be waiting for when the ipods with screens get down to about $75-$100.

Caboose · Post by **Caboose** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 4:15 pm

I love my iRiver.

But that is indeed small. I'd rather have something with a bigger screen though, that looks hard to read.

hearld500 · Post by **hearld500** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 5:03 pm

If I ever got one of those, I'm pretty sure I'd lose it somehow the same day.

skar · Post by **skar** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 5:07 pm

will get an iriver t30... looking for something with ogg support...

Sir Savant · Post by **Sir Savant** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 5:20 pm

startplane? Or regular searching?

I would get one except I got the scraps of an archos (dead hd

) for 12 bucks 2 weeks ago. No use in having 2 players.

Anyone else think it looks TOO small?

Nyarlathotep · Post by **Nyarlathotep** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 6:05 pm

Dark Savant0 wrote: Anyone else think it looks TOO small?

Not really, all you need in an MP3 player is for it to fit comfortably in a pocket; the actual usability is all remote + headphones.

Battery life / storage capacity etc are just personal preference - to be honest I'm surprised nobodys made an MP3 player that is just a nice pair of headphones with all the RAM, controls, whatever just built into the earpiece.

And if they have I don't know about it but I'm sure someone will link it.

Tall Israeli · Post by **Tall Israeli** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 6:23 pm

This thing is going to make my penis look HUGE.
On an actually related note, the new iTunes v5 is sexy as hell.

Sir Savant · Post by **Sir Savant** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 7:00 pm

They have an mp3 player that is on a watch, I remember that from overstock, so it shouldnt be much harder to mod that to a headphone. Only problem with that is it is max 256 mb I think.

If there is a way to lock the headphones to it, then it would be fine. But anything smaller than a gameboy pocket would get lost (unless it is money or something). Which is why I favor bigger players.

Will it allow 3 or 4 songs on a screen at once?

MulletMan13 · Post by **MulletMan13** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 7:31 pm

it's a smaller screen than the mini was, but higher resolution... so I would say 4 at least.... might be a bit hard to read, but *shrugs* i'm sure it may be adjustable on something that small.

Post by **melancholy** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 9:13 pm

Dr Wily wrote:
Dark Savant0 wrote: Anyone else think it looks TOO small?
Not really, all you need in an MP3 player is for it to fit comfortably in a pocket; the actual usability is all remote + headphones.

Battery life / storage capacity etc are just personal preference - to be honest I'm surprised nobodys made an MP3 player that is just a nice pair of headphones with all the RAM, controls, whatever just built into the earpiece.

And if they have I don't know about it but I'm sure someone will link it.

I know that Circuit City has sunglasses that have an MP3 player built into them. However, nobody would be caught wearing those things because they are the most hideous sunglasses you've ever seen.

Post by **pixel** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 11:56 pm

It looks fine to me. Anyone on OS X having problems installing iTunes 5?

MulletMan13 · Post by **MulletMan13** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 12:16 am

Installed fine for me, my friend and my girlfriend... hrm?

Post by **pixel** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 10:39 am

I keep getting an error telling me to close iTunes. I went into Activity Monitor and made sure nothing was running.

MulletMan13 · Post by **MulletMan13** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 11:13 am

You may have iTunesDaemon startup when you start the computer... check under system prefs --> users--> startup, and make sure you dont have bytecontroller or anything to do with iTunes. Also check if you have iTunes widgets open.

Post by **pixel** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 1:31 pm

ir teh stoopid

I had sizzlingkeys running and forgot to close that. Now that I have it, I must say that v5 is a very welcome revision. More succinct and streamlined, it's no wonder they didn't update the 4+ year old interface sooner.