Ipod Nano and Ipod Phone

HyperionX · Post by **HyperionX** » 2005-09-12 02:04am

Has this been posted yet? Anyways, if not:

Ipod Nano

Ipod Phone

Both are pretty nice to look at, especially the Ipod Nano. Still prefer the big ones myself though.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2005-09-12 02:15am

The phone looks like a regular motorola (ie, no clickwheel) and the nano looks like a nice ten minutes in photoshop. Are these real?

Quadlok · Post by **Quadlok** » 2005-09-12 02:18am

Stark wrote:The phone looks like a regular motorola (ie, no clickwheel) and the nano looks like a nice ten minutes in photoshop. Are these real?

Check Apple's homepage, they're real enough. The Nano is replacing the Mini, and the phone isn't so much an iPod as just another multimedia phone with iTunes crammed in.

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2005-09-12 02:31am

Stark wrote:The phone looks like a regular motorola (ie, no clickwheel) and the nano looks like a nice ten minutes in photoshop. Are these real?

Yep.
http://www.apple.com/

The Nano is a replacement to the Mini, however it uses Flash instead of a hard drive. Because of that it has a lower capacity pricewise ($250 is 4 GB instead of 6 GB as before) but has a color screen and is far thinner.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2005-09-12 02:42am

I'm going to hopefully get a Mini for a layaway Christmas present, while they're still available. Cheaper and bigger memory capacity, as well as more durable. (Those who have nanos have said they're pretty fragile feeling.)

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2005-09-12 03:57am

The Nano will likely be more durable. Flash memory is much more reliable than a hard drive.

Glocksman · Post by **Glocksman** » 2005-09-12 04:19am

Praxis wrote:The Nano will likely be more durable. Flash memory is much more reliable than a hard drive.

Ars Technica reviewed a nano and found that it was pretty durable.
As much as I dislike Apple's pretentiousness in their marketing, it appears they have one hell of a good player here.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2005-09-12 05:14am

The nano looks pretty nice, aside from the low capacity. It's certainly the iPod I'll be recommending to casual users from now on - its size is remarkable. Does anyone fill their regular ipod? I've got a 20Gb, and I've got 4-5Gb free, even after filling it with piles of images and utilities for troubleshooting.

And the colours on the OP nano pic still look fake to me!

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2005-09-12 09:28am

Glocksman wrote:Ars Technica reviewed a nano and found that it was pretty durable.

They ran it over with a car and while the LCD failed the rest of the player kept going.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2005-09-12 09:53am

I liked the mini- all metal casings == teh cool.

The Grim Squeaker · Post by **The Grim Squeaker** » 2005-09-12 10:13am

I WANT IT

, problem is I still have'nt filled up all of my current old non colour 40gb iPod, still 6.4 GB left.
It looks even sexier side by side to a pencil, psp or an ugly older iPod.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2005-09-12 12:32pm

DPDarkPrimus wrote:I'm going to hopefully get a Mini for a layaway Christmas present, while they're still available. Cheaper and bigger memory capacity, as well as more durable. (Those who have nanos have said they're pretty fragile feeling.)

The nanos actually cost about as much as the regular iPod mini. And the size is only two gigs difference, which won't really make too much of a problem for most people. That said, I'm definitely going to be looking at getting me a Nano in the next few weeks, considering how nifty it looks from reading the product descrips.

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2005-09-12 01:50pm

Personally I would have bought a shuffle if it would have had a radio.
The nano looks nice though.

Ypoknons · Post by **Ypoknons** » 2005-09-12 05:00pm

PS the iTunes is in a Motorola E398 externally ... an ancient thing of at least a year, at least in Hong Kong. Wonder why they didn't put more effort into it.

Of course, if you glue a nano to a RAZR it would be shorter and thinner than the iTunes phone ... of course the RAZR is fat.