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September 2008
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The editors liked
Triumphant return to the stick design
Hooray!
Support for new headphones with clicker and/or iPhone headphones
New features make it the best click-wheel iPod yet (shake to shuffle
Genius playlists
Accelerometer)
Return of slim form factor
Decent sound quality
"Genius" recommendation system
Excellent screen and video quality
Simple UI
Large selection of games
Accelerometer works well in games and video
Roughly 30 hours battery life
Light weight
Accelerometer
Voice prompts for the visually impaired
Voice recorder (have to supply your own mic tho)
Feels amazing in the hand
With onethumb clickwheel control
Unique new convenience (and coolness) features
Attractive slimline design
Motion sensors
Slim and curvy design
Very good sound
Accelerometer enhances many features
Sharp and bright screen
The fourth-generation Apple iPod Touch
Winner of CNET's 2011 Editors' Choice Award for portable media players
Has been upgraded with new software and a boost in capacity
Most capacious nano yet
More features than the iPod classic
Genius feature works directly on iPod
Better-than-estimated battery life
Spoken Menus and larger menu fonts improve accessibility
Improved interface with optional preview panel
Audio-crossf...
Sexy
Thin
Rounded design. Same excellent user interface as in previous nanos. Built-in accelerometer shifts screen for horizontal viewing (like on the iPhone and iPod touch) and lets you shuffle songs by shaking the player. Genius feature creates on-the...
Enough colors to make you second guess dropping that third hit of acid before hitting the Apple store. Up to 16 gigs of storage. On the fly Genius (should be called Lazy) Playlists let you quickly suit your music mood. Energy saver mode is clutch. 8 gigs...
Accelerometer enhances interface and games
Extremely thin design and lots of color choices
Very good AV quality
Useful new features like Genius
Adjustable font size
And spoken menus
Apple’s highest-capacity mid-range flash player to date
With an outstanding array of nine color options that for the first time are available at a $149 base price rather than as a premium option. Preserves most of the features of last year’s...
The fourth-generation iPod Nano is more attractive and colorful than its predecessor and includes Apples new Genius playlist tool
A tilt sensor
And accessibility features for the visually impaired.
Return to more pocket-friendly form factor
Accelerometer makes small screen more useful
Speedy Cover Flow navigation
Great screen
Light
Improved interface
Accelerometer is useful and fun
Easy to use
Well made
Lightweight and very portable
Lots of content for it on the iTunes store
Videos and pictures look sharp
Great design
Plays both video and audio
FM tuner
External speaker
Included video camera
Very slim and lightweight
Supports voice recording
The editors didn't like
Apple is hitting a dead end with UI innovation for these things
Many games made for click-wheel iPods dont make use of the accelerometer
And therefore suck (but some do!)
No firewire breaks support for many 3rd party chargers
No built-in microphone
No OGG Vorbis or FLAC support...
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Expensive
Battery life slightly shorter for video than previous generation
Some might squint at video on the twoinch screen
A little more expensive than rival models
16GB storage won’t be enough for some
Average battery life
No wireless feature
The fifth-generation iPod Touch offers a larger screen
Faster processor
And superior photo and camcorder quality
Iderably under-hyped is the 4G nano’s new Spoken Menus feature
Which actually “reads aloud” as you browse the iPod’s menus
Offering nearly-complete navigation even if you can’t see the iPod’s screen. Designed to incre...
No built-in mic—you need to upgrade earbuds to use the integrated voice recorder. Apple still hasnt upgraded those lame bundled earbuds.
Why no love for the squarePod? Shaketoshuffle is a nightmare during parkour outings
Switching off the muchneeded French Hip Hop in favor of our knitting podcasts whenever jostled. Tapered design is just curvy enough to be fey
But not quite severe enough...
No wireless features
No custom EQ
Mediocre battery life
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Battery life for video and game playing has dropped from prior version
Though audio playback time is roughly the same. New tapered shape feels like a dull knife in the hand
Versus the softer curves of prior iPods and nanos
And requires rotation for
To use the new Nano
You must upgrade to Apples iTunes 8 software with its laundry list of hardware requirements
The rounded screen invites glare
Sound quality is only average.
Requires upgrading to resource-hogging iTunes 8
Audio recording requires additional Apple purchase
Genius feature needs education
You must twist the device 90 degrees to watch videos
Earbuds don’t offer the best sound quality and they aren’t very comfortable
Abstract: Apples size obsession continues. It started earlier this year when the company introduced us to the MacBook Air, the thinnest notebook ever, and now it has added the thinnest iPod ever to its range of ubiquitous media players. Given that the front...
Ditching the ‘fat’ shape of the last iPod was a bold move for Apple, but one that’s paid handsome dividends and delivered this: the thinnest (6.2mm), most powerful iPod nano to date. It’s not just a facelift either. Inside it&rsquo...
Yes, it’s the thinnest iPod ever made, but only thanks to Apple’s crafty tapering at the edges. It’s also much taller than its predecessor, and unless you really, really struggle to make mixtape-style playlists, the new Genius features w...
with this model Apple has introduced features I didn't need and designed out things that made the 2nd gen the best compact mp3 player available. Would I buy another? No, I'd look elsewhere next time. Report as inappropriate Join FiveFWDCreating an...
We can’t find much to fault about the new iPod Nano, which is just as well for Apple as there’s a lot riding on this particular product. The iPod Touch is currently still too expensive to really spearhead Apple’s sales efforts, which mea...
Insanely slim and light. Great visuals. Feature count. Energetic sound
iTunes 8 arm-bending. Genius demands data. Some screen reflections. Average buds
With a slimmed chassis and a boosted feature list, what’s not to like? Apple’s arm-twisting, that’s what ...
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Published: 2008-09-11, Author: Donald , review by: CNET.co.uk
Design; Apple's new Genius playlist tool; accessibility features for the visually impaired
The fact that you have to upgrade to Apple's iTunes 8 software; the rounded screen invites glare; average sound quality
The fourth-generation iPod nano is easy on the eyes and the wallet, and you can't beat its hardware and user interface design. Look out for innovative accessibility features and the Genius playlist tool, but just be sure to give iTunes 8 a spin before...
