iPod Nano 5th Gen Review

The newest iPod Nano is acutely a footfall up from aftermost year's model, awash with fresh appearance including a video camera. But can the Nano break the aforementioned air-conditioned little amateur while accompanying advancing the Flip-cam market?

This fresh Nano�the 5th generation�comes in the aforementioned 8GB/16GB sizes as the aftermost one (and the one afore that, actually), admitting it costs hardly beneath than the aboriginal amount of the 4th bearing Nano (which was $150/$200). The $20 amount bead is nice, but we'd accept adopted a accommodation bang with the aforementioned price. Correction: This breadth originally compared the 5G Nano's amount to the actual afresh discounted 4G Nano's price( $130/$150)�but as that amount was alone in aftereffect for a brace days, it's added authentic to analyze the 5G amount to the 4G's barrage price. Sorry for the confusion.

Body

The fresh Nano has the aforementioned anatomy as the 4th generation, but there are audible changes afoot. The awning takes a bang from 2 inches to 2.2 inches�a jump that may complete tiny but is decidedly substantial. If you're acclimated to the old 2-inch awning you'll absolutely apprehension and acknowledge the added amplitude for navigation. The resolution goes from 240x320 to the camp 240x376. Admitting added back beheld lengthwise, the fresh awning still isn't 16x9; alike widescreen videos will be hardly letterboxed due to the anarchistic size. Aside from the added absolute estate, it's additionally acutely brighter and bluff than the antecedent model. It may still be too baby to watch a two-hour cine on, but it's a amusement to use for aggregate else, including beneath video clips.

Unfortunately, that beyond awning comes with a caveat: The bang caster is alike abate than beforehand Nanos. If you begin the antecedent Nano's bang caster hardly thinner and harder to hit than you prefer, this will be alike worse. If you had no problems before, again the slight abatement in admeasurement shouldn't affect you much. I alone begin it too small, and my deride sometimes hit the breadth about the controls instead of the ascendancy itself. This is abnormally accurate back the Nano is docked.

The anodized aluminum accomplishment is additionally a little different�there's an added footfall in the action that makes it shinier and brighter than the antecedent generation's analogously chastened matte finish. Oddly enough, it absolutely feels hardly lighter than the aftermost model, admitting no beneath solid�this is an acutely abiding player. It doesn't bend beneath burden from any bend and a nerve-wracking abatement assimilate a balk attic had no adverse effects. However, I begin that aciculate metal altar like keys will leave scratches, while the antecedent matte Nano showed no scratches beneath agnate abuse. One bit of bad news: People who hated the aciculate corners of the aftermost Nano will accept to put up with them for at atomic addition year.