Apple iPod nano 4 GB Black (1st Generation) OLD MODEL
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Customer Review: Cool MP3 Player! Add some accessories to make it better
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the coolest MP3 player I've ever seen! You wont believe how thin it is until you try to hold it on your palm! Here are some reasons why I love this MP3 player:
- Incredibly small, thin, and very light.
- Well designed, fit on your palm, pocket, or pencil case.
- High resolution colour screen, shows albumart, photos, and games in colors.
- Superb sound.
- Click wheel; easy navigation as the original iPod.
- New features:
> World Clock
> Stopwatch
> Screen Lock
- now with iTunes 5, it's easy to sync AddressBook, Calendar, etc between Ms Outlook and iPod nano.
- with flash memory, the nano is 100% skip free; a true sport companion.
- headphone jack at the bottom, making it easier to read the screen (without rotating it first) when we take the nano out from our jeans pocket.
Although it comes with lots of advantages, yet:
- 4 GB is the maximum capacity possible.
- USB connection only.
- No charger adapter, you should use the USB connection to recharge the battery. It means the computer or laptop should be around you. Make sure you bring your laptop on your vacation.
- Only two colors available, black or white. No more pink, blue, green, etc.
Accessories that you may like:
- The lanyard. With this earphone, you can wear your iPod nano as necklace. No more tangle and you can change the music right away without reaching your pocket.
- The silicon case. This silicon case comes in colors and will change the look of your iPod nano. It will also protect your iPod from scratches and prevents it from sliding on a tilted table or slipped out of your pocket when you're sitting.
Overall this is a really great product! Before deciding to buy this MP3 player, make sure you have USB 2.0 on you computer or laptop. Some people had bought this nano and having USB 1 connection on their PC, making the song transfer a painful and time consuming process. It will takes hours to fill up your iPod nano with USB 1. Therefore, the existance of USB 2.0 on your PC is crucial. Also, if you are frequent traveller, it is a good idea to buy another accessory for recharging the battery og your iPod without connecting it to PC. Otherwise, you will have to bring your laptop with you or look for PCs on your vacation to recharge your nano.
Customer Review: Cool MP3 Player! Add some accessories to make it better
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the coolest MP3 player I've ever seen! You wont believe how thin it is until you try to hold it on your palm! Here are some reasons why I love this MP3 player:
- Incredibly small, thin, and very light.
- Well designed, fit on your palm, pocket, or pencil case.
- High resolution colour screen, shows albumart, photos, and games in colors.
- Superb sound.
- Click wheel; easy navigation as the original iPod.
- New features:
> World Clock
> Stopwatch
> Screen Lock
- now with iTunes 5, it's easy to sync AddressBook, Calendar, etc between Ms Outlook and iPod nano.
- with flash memory, the nano is 100% skip free; a true sport companion.
- headphone jack at the bottom, making it easier to read the screen (without rotating it first) when we take the nano out from our jeans pocket.
Although it comes with lots of advantages, yet:
- 4 GB is the maximum capacity possible.
- USB connection only.
- No charger adapter, you should use the USB connection to recharge the battery. It means the computer or laptop should be around you. Make sure you bring your laptop on your vacation.
- Only two colors available, black or white. No more pink, blue, green, etc.
Accessories that you may like:
- The lanyard. With this earphone, you can wear your iPod nano as necklace. No more tangle and you can change the music right away without reaching your pocket.
- The silicon case. This silicon case comes in colors and will change the look of your iPod nano. It will also protect your iPod from scratches and prevents it from sliding on a tilted table or slipped out of your pocket when you're sitting.
Overall this is a really great product! Before deciding to buy this MP3 player, make sure you have USB 2.0 on you computer or laptop. Some people had bought this nano and having USB 1 connection on their PC, making the song transfer a painful and time consuming process. It will takes hours to fill up your iPod nano with USB 1. Therefore, the existance of USB 2.0 on your PC is crucial. Also, if you are frequent traveller, it is a good idea to buy another accessory for recharging the battery og your iPod without connecting it to PC. Otherwise, you will have to bring your laptop with you or look for PCs on your vacation to recharge your nano.
Customer Review: Good music player overall
Summary: 4 Stars
For a while, I was very skeptical about buying one of these - I didn't understand all the hype about the iPod when there are so many other music players on the market. Since I got one for Christmas, I've started to see what some of the hype is about.
These are fairly good players overall. One advantage the iPod offers over other players is that it arranges your music by artist and album, making music easy to find. Additionally, the iPod Nano is very tiny and uses solid-state storage, making it ideal for those who wish to use a music player while exercising. It also has a sharp color screen and an easy-to-use interface. The graphics resemble the Mac OS X operating system, so its user interface is also fairly nice to look at. Additionally, the sound quality is very good. The earbud headphones it comes with also sound very good, although I personally find earbuds somewhat uncomfortable.
The iPod Nano has some other nice touches, such as games - It has solitaire, a music shuffle game (where it plays short clips of your songs and you have to choose which song it is from a list), and a few others. The games can come in useful if you are on a long bus/airplane ride or in other situations where you might be bored.
The biggest downsides I see to the iPod Nano is that there is no way to replace the battery if it fails or to upgrade the storage if you want more than 4GB of storage. Apple does have a warranty for the battery though and will replace your iPod Nano if the battery fails (within a certain time limit).
Another downside, in my opinion, is that you need to use special software to transfer music to/from the iPod. Unlike other music players I've used, you can't simply drag & drop your music files onto the device. You need to use software, such as Apple's iTunes, to transfer music to/from the iPod. Additionally, it looks like the software scrambles the filenames on the iPod, so even if you browse the music files on your iPod without the special software, you can't tell what the music is from the filenames.
Pros:
- Very tiny (easy to take with you)
- Uses solid-state storage (ideal for those who exercise)
- Easy to use
- Great sound quality
Cons:
- The battery & storage device can't be replaced
- Special software must be used to copy music to/from the iPod
Customer Review: former Ipod Video owner, who now has the Nano
Summary: 4 Stars
I have a 4 GB Black Ipod Nano. I love it. Don't get scared because it gets many scratches. I was aware of the complaints and I left the plastic covering on the Nano. The screen is just as clear as it is without the covering. I had an Video Ipod, but it died on me after 7 months. Although the video held more songs, the Nano did not have a hard drive. This is what made me buy the Nano; instead of another Video . In case you didn't know by now it has flash memory, so you don't have to worry about getting your hard drive ruined. For some odd reason I'm getting close to 14 hours on my Ipod, usually people are complaining about the battery life, but i'm happy with the battery life.
Both the Video and Nano have color screens, and they can also hold photos. They both have click wheels.
Advantages with Video
- Hold more songs (30 & 60 GB)
- plays videos & movies
Disadvanges with video
- lighter than the older generation of Ipods, but much heavier than the Nano
- Hard Drive ( I can be very clumsy)
- movies can drain the battery drastically ( what's the point of having your Harry Potter movies on it if you can't catch all of it on one charge)
- scratches ( I had to learn the hard way. I left the plastic cover the Nano and I don't have to worry about scratches)
Adavantages with Nano
- far from the weight of the video
- duh........ very small
- flash memory
Disadvatages with Nano
- can only hold up to 4 GB (1000 songs) (Despite some people, most of us don't even need all the memory)
- no video playback ( Who wants to look at movie on that small screen, anyway)
- I happy with my battery life but......... if you don't look at any movies or videos on the Video, you'll have the same battery life as the nano. ( I would expect since the Nano is smaller it would have better battery life than the Video, not exactly)
- scratches ( Even though I learn my lesson with the Video and I left the plastic cover on, I know people have this problem)
Overall I prefer the Nano mainly because of the flash memory, not the size. If Apple would create a Nano (1,2,4 GB) that can hold as much songs as the Video (30 & 60 GB) then I would be first in line at Walmart at 3 AM
Thank you for reading my review.
Customer Review: I'm almost fifteen...
Summary: 2 Stars
IPods are Rip-offs
The iPod's not the only music player you can get,
It's just that there are MP3 players people have not met.
If they just knew what the other players had in store for them,
They'd know the iPod stinks so bad it came from a pig's pen.
The iPods soar to the top of the list of MP3 players like kites,
But why not get a better player with more gigabytes?
Sandisk and Creative have some pretty decent devices,
Yet people cling to iPods even with their retarded prices.
The Sandisk Sansa E100 has many, many things,
An FM radio, recording, and movies make it the king of kings.
Does the iPod Nano have this stuff? No, it does not!
The Nano lacking all these features is definitely its weak spot.
The Creative Zen Micro Photo also kills the Nano for an amazing deal,
It has so much more for so much less that it's basically unreal.
Radio, recording, and replaceable battery make it a better player,
For less than the Nano...are you kidding? It's definitely a Nano slayer.
There's a player that blows the iPod Shuffle into outer space,
It's called the Samsung YP-U2 and it definitely earns its place.
FM tuner, voice recorder, and screen make it a great buy,
The fact that the Shuffle doesn't have these things should make Steve Jobs cry.
The Creative Zen Vision: M is better than the Ipod Video,
Better screen, more features, and better value make it glow.
The fact that the Vision: M is thicker doesn't really matter,
The features are what make the Vision: M unimportantly fatter.
So you see, my friends, the iPod is a waste of precious time,
The fact that Apple cheats you out is basically a crime.
They make their iPods fragile just to make them really "cool",
Anyone who buys one is just a ridiculous crazy fool.
Facts
1. Ipods are MP3 players. It seems like people want to separate iPods from other MP3 players. Can iPods play MP3's? If so, it's an MP3 player.
2. The Creative Zen Vision: M is pretty much the same thing as the iPod with video, but the Zen has much, much more. It has an FM tuner (FM recording), voice recorder, better screen (262,144 colors as opposed to 65,000-very big difference),