Take out 4 bank cards out of your pockets. Stack them and maintain them in your hand.
Apple’s iPod nano [http://www.powermax.com/cgi-global/generate_css_temp.cgi?]
i=PM_MP_IN&t=The+iPod+nano is about the identical weight and half an inch much less broad
than that stack of playing cards. Now put three playing cards again in your pockets and use the
remaining card to go purchase your self a nano.
The nano’s introduction shouldn’t be misinterpreted as simply one other iPod within the
lineup. It’s, in reality, precisely what the iPod ought to have been within the first place: a
flash-based jukebox with a protracted battery life and gorgeous coloration display screen. This new
iPod shouldn’t be a smaller model of one other iPod, or mixture of some other two iPods.
The consumer interface is identical (which has all the time been iPod’s power) however that’s it.
The variations listed below are beneath the pores and skin, most notably with the display screen.
Shade screens aren’t new to iPods, however the best way you see the colour is. The nano’s
1.5-inch coloration LCD has a blue-white tv led backlight sync. LEDs obtain full brightness
sooner than commonplace LCD backlights. That is notably helpful as a result of iPods flip
on and off their backlight usually to avoid wasting battery energy. The variety of seconds this
saves you per day shouldn’t be going to offer you an additional hour of sleep at evening. However the
LCD’s fast begin up permits your eyes to focus close to instantaneously, which makes
utilizing the nano really feel that a lot sooner. LEDs produce brighter gentle than different
backlights with out washing out the picture. That provides the nano display screen a deep vivid
coloration. Over all of the nano’s LCD is the most effective I’ve seen within the 1-inch to 3-inch measurement.
One other distinction from earlier iPods is the nano’s lack of FireWire assist.
Though iPods have include solely USB 2.0 cables for a while, they’ve all the time
supported syncing by way of a FireWire cable. The iPod nano is the primary to be USB
solely. Whenever you join a nano through a “FireWire to Dock Connecter” cable it shows a
message that it is a USB solely gadget. It’ll nonetheless cost off the FireWire cable however
no file transfers will be achieved. In case your pc has solely the older USB 1.1, the nano
will nonetheless sync with iTunes however you’re caught shifting information over at a particularly gradual
pace.
Amazingly, the nano has no shifting elements besides the press wheel. This was achieved by
utilizing flash reminiscence for tune storage. Each iPod ever made has had flash reminiscence,
but it surely was used on most iPods as a knowledge buffer. Tune information was pulled from the onerous
drive and saved within the buffer for skip safety. Nonetheless, iPod onerous drives are very
gradual and might trigger delays when loading a tune off the drive. So Apple additionally makes use of the
buffer to preload songs, so that you don’t hear a pause between songs. After all, not
each tune is within the buffer so generally there are pauses between songs. Altering
songs within the nano, nevertheless, is quicker than with onerous drive primarily based iPods as a result of it
has one large buffer. An added good thing about utilizing flash reminiscence is a big
discount in weight.
The small measurement and weight of the iPod nano is its greatest characteristic. It slips right into a shirt
pocket with out being felt or seen. The distinction between the nano and its onerous
drive primarily based brothers is the same as the distinction between the brick sized analog cell
telephones of the 1980’s in comparison with the cell telephones of immediately. A detailed second place
characteristic is that it is available in black. When Apple launched the third era of iPods,
they photographed it within the shadows. The image made it look black and it regarded
good in black. Nearly each individual that walked by that poster requested when might
they get a “black one.” After a few years, Apple lastly realized “U2” followers have been
not the one ones who like black.
The iPod nano is the one product I’ve ever ordered the day it was launched. I noticed
immediately it possessed all that had been lacking from the iPods that got here earlier than it,
and at a spectacular value. I simply couldn’t wait one other day… so what are you ready
for?