Mp3 Players and Ipod Reviews

For new Apple iPod Nano ,try as hard as you like, you cannot deny that Apple has an uncanny ability to keep on making great products. Every time you think it’s impossible to make improvements to their iPod music players, along comes another revamp that raises the bar yet again.

The new nano also sports a regular click-wheel, and on the underside there’s a 30-pin dock connector, along with a 3.5mm stereo headphone jack. We had no problem connecting it to iPod speaker docks, and a plastic bezel is supplied for extra compatibility. It should be noted that this time there’s no support for 3rd party video accessories.

iPod nano is the small iPod with one very big idea: Video. Now the world’s most popular music player lets you enjoy TV shows, movies, video podcasts, and more. The larger, brighter display means amazing picture quality. It features an anodized aluminum top and polished stainless steel back. It’ll wow you for hours. Play up to 5 hours of video or up to 24 hours of audio on a single charge. iTunes provides music, movies, TV shows, games and more. All those features within a wafer-thin,

The design of the menu system has also been completely revamped, and it now features some of the iPhone and iPod Touch’s eye-pleasing graphics. One of the biggest new upgrades is the cover-flow graphics which work a lot like the iPhone’s method of navigating through various songs and albums by actually flipping through the album covers. This is a very cool and innovative design, although it doesn’t by any means speed up the process of searching for music - but it does look cool.

And with the design and desirability of the latest batch, it has excelled itself once again, especially with the new nano. Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the past week or so, you’ll know roughly what it looks like. In order to accommodate the bigger screen, it’s both shorter and wider than the previous nano - 52 x 70 x 6.5mm (WxHxD) to be precise.

Product summary

The good: The third-generation iPod Nano offers crisp, bright video playback, an exceptionally thin all-metal body, above-average battery life, built-in games, and an advanced user interface.

The bad: We’re not crazy about the wider body, the smaller scroll wheel, the lack of video output, and the average-sounding audio quality.

Apple iPod Nano comparison (3rd generation model on the left)The bottom line: The shape may have changed, but Apple’s relentless attention to detail remains. The third generation of the iPod Nano provides loads of entertainment for a down-to-earth price.

Cnet Reviews Now in its third generation, Apple’s iPod Nano gets a substantial redesign to accommodate games and video playback. Despite its changes–and Apple made many–the iPod Nano is still one of the smallest, thinnest, and most exquisitely designed MP3 players on the market. It’s also one of the most affordable, with a 4GB (silver) model offered for $149, and an 8GB (silver, black, red, green, or blue) model for $199. While the updated iPod Classic and the new iPod Touch are equally intriguing, the revamped Nano delivers the most bang for the buck.

Cnet editors rating-: 8.2/10