My (very casual) iPod Nano Review
After 3 days of being screwed around by the courier company my black ipod nano arrived today.
I’d read in a few reviews that you won’t believe how small it is until you get it… you won’t.
It’s frucking tiny. Smaller than any phone I’ve ever seen… and about as thin as a 48 page exercise book. It’s about the length of my index finger long… and two thumbnails wide. And my hands aren’t big.
Despite the small size the high resolution of the screen makes it ok, and unless you have trees for fingers, the scroll wheel is easily workable.
I managed to crash it the first time I plugged it in my computer. Oops. But restarting it was easy, and since then I have had no problems. Maybe I should have followed the instructions.
It comes with a software CD, USB cable, headphones, headphone ear pieces, dock adapter, manual all tied up in the sexiest black packaging you’ve ever seen.
The transfer via USB2 is fast. About a song a second, and with iTunes it’s such a piece of piss to update too.
I love you Steve Jobs, and I love our new baby 2.
5 / 5
EDIT: Just to clarify a few things… mines a 4 gig model (the larger of the two). ATM it’s got 409 songs on it, but to it’s defence at least 4 of them are entire CD’s in one audio track… and it’s about 80% full. It’s more space than I need, as I can easily refill it wherever I am with my laptop.
dan said,
September 16, 2005 at 2:40 pm
… trendwhore…
Rex said,
September 16, 2005 at 4:09 pm
Nice, what are they worth?
Administrator said,
September 16, 2005 at 4:59 pm
Mine cost me $323 with a student discount… its the (larger) 4 gig model.
Virt said,
September 16, 2005 at 6:00 pm
Will go nicely with the perm and blonde streaks ;-)
Chaff said,
September 16, 2005 at 6:32 pm
Looks good, just don’t use the white ear buds: they make you look like a gimp and one with too much money at that.
Rex said,
September 17, 2005 at 2:43 am
yeh lose the headphones and the QUT Card, GRIFFITH REPRESENT!
Z said,
September 17, 2005 at 1:57 pm
hahaha
Garrett said,
September 17, 2005 at 2:56 pm
Man, I never got a good idea as to how small it actually was until your picture spelled it out clearly for me.
Anonymous said,
September 18, 2005 at 3:48 pm
griffith and qut haha. we call those big tafe at the rael uni.
personally i think all ipods are pieces of shit that are riddled with faults.
Doc said,
September 18, 2005 at 4:28 pm
I’m glad they’re teaching you how to spell at the “rael” uni as well. :P
By the way, what makes the iPod so shit?
Anonymous said,
September 18, 2005 at 5:35 pm
Battery gone after like a year. Just randomly freezes and then cant be turned back on until the battery dies. Just stops working for no reason. Sister has none of these problems with her iriver.
Mis-spelling…still doesnt take away from the fact that qut is big tafe
Administrator said,
September 18, 2005 at 6:23 pm
The battery problem was only in the early generations of the iPod… and apple is replacing them out of their pocket - Link
Mis-spelling…still doesnt take away from the fact that qut is big tafe
Does the bad grammar ;-)
Anonymous said,
September 18, 2005 at 7:52 pm
Just pushing buttons…theyre all the same…well except for qut and uq anyway…
Doc said,
September 18, 2005 at 8:34 pm
Just randomly freezes and then cant be turned back on until the battery dies.
That’s easily fixed by just resetting it. And no you don’t lose your data.
Anonymous said,
September 19, 2005 at 9:01 am
Yeh but for 500 dollars I shouldnt have to do that.
Administrator said,
September 19, 2005 at 1:56 pm
Heh…
I paid over a grand for my laptop with windows on… and I’ll be farked if I don’t regually have to reset that ;)
Rex said,
September 19, 2005 at 1:59 pm
I think anonymous is just a big fag-root.
Anonymous said,
September 19, 2005 at 4:29 pm
Fag root…good call.
meanwhile…ud expect screw ups with an os. it has to run a more than just a bunch of songs.
dave said,
September 19, 2005 at 9:52 pm
i really want one of these ipod nano’s
i like the black the best im just worried that it would snap in my pocket if i leaned to far forward to tie my shoelace or something
but thats just me being paranoid
i cant see people wanting the ipod mini or shuffle now
no wonder there so eager to give them away with popular packets of crisps all over the world?
Administrator said,
September 19, 2005 at 11:24 pm
i like the black the best im just worried that it would snap in my pocket if i leaned to far forward to tie my shoelace or something
Don’t. They ran over one with a car and it kept on going. They’re solid as anything. If it snaps… you’ve done something very stupid with it.
dumb-fool said,
October 17, 2005 at 5:31 am
What if you accidently jammed one in dvd player and threw the dvd player in a river
you cant say it would still be working
(im always right by the way)
Anonymous said,
October 20, 2005 at 9:29 am
small hands aye….
glenny said,
October 28, 2005 at 8:19 pm
yeah only if you manage to throw it up bout 20ft in the air will it break,
PUNK ROCKS! there short songs so i can hold loads, i have 620 songs(about 30-60 are short funny quotes from h*r) and i only have taken up 1.2GB on my comp, and using stuff like apple lossless, i’d have like a million songs :P
lokicat said,
January 18, 2006 at 3:49 pm
To solve the problem - reset it by holding the Menu button and the center button at the same time for about six seconds. The Apple logo appears. After that, it should be fine. No data is lost at all, and it oughta work just fine with iTunes recognizing it, etc.
Tara I. said,
February 5, 2006 at 10:00 am
i’m 11, and i was just searching google on how to fix the stupid freezing thing. by the way, i dont exactly agree with the fact of how small it is. when i looked at it first in the box it seemed quite small, but once you get used to it, its not THAT small. and to whoever who said that no one wants an iPod mini anymore, they stopped making the iPod mini or else i’d've gotten that one. if you ask me the iPod nano is a rip-off. People these days buy iPods even if they dont listen to music because of stupid trend. I bought and iPod cause it plays pretty good. The iPod nano is a rip-off in comparison to the iPod mini: the iPod mini 4 gig is $199 whereas the ipod nano 2 gig is also $199. they make it like this because the nano has color and holds photos. They’re not going to make black and white iPods anymore. i find the whole “color” portion quite useless. thank you -lokicat- for helping me fix my sorry excuse of an ipod. If you ask me, a good iPod would be the 20 gig black and white, but sadly, i’m 11, live in new york and dont have an allowance so the 8.6-something tax itself added about 20 bucks to my $199 iPod. life sucks so lets just shrivel up and die. by the way. the iPod nano doesn’t hold many songs either. (just because i’m 11 doesn’t mean i’m not into alot of music: i have too many bands to name but some popping into my head are SYSTEM OF A DOWN, MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE -their new album rocks, but its getting a bit overplayed- THE STROKES, METALLICA, ADAM & ANDREW -not really a band, but theyre funny- ARMOR FOR SLEEP -they’re only okay- and for the first band i ever really got into: SMASHMOUTH -i was six-) so thnx anyway and i’m sorry for writing this whole big thing. lolz.
. said,
February 5, 2006 at 1:36 pm
Tara, cut the crap with the long, un-understandable “paragraph.” If you think it’s crap, then why did you buy it? There’s other mp3 players too. Quit that “lolz” crap too…
...Wtf? said,
March 9, 2006 at 1:42 pm
no one cares if ur 11 and what u listen too just go cry urself to sleep
?!?!?!?!? said,
April 8, 2006 at 11:19 am
and im sure u just love ur stupid ipod cuz it your most expensive thing u own, and probably the only thing you own…. moral THEY SUCK AND YOU DO TO !!!!!
... said,
July 24, 2006 at 7:36 pm
Hey, i just bought an Black Ipod Nano and i just love it! :D