has anyone seen it yet? its so small and has a color screen! i want it :crazy: :eek:
http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/

Mini IPods rule. I want a Mini IPod but they're too expensive.

i was just about to smartass you for spamming until i saw you already have 39 posts and are a valid member. lolllll.

Mini IPods rule. I want a Mini IPod but they're too expensive.

You better get one while you still have a chance.

Apple are replacing their mini's with the new Nano.

You better get one while you still have a chance.

Apple are replacing their mini's with the new Nano.
Oh well. I could live with the Nano. It looks almost the same anyway. :lol:

When are the mini ipods gonna be completley gone?

You better get one while you still have a chance.

Apple are replacing their mini's with the new Nano.

The Nano is has smaller hard drives than the mini (well at least one of them), and are more expensive. That would be dumb.

its only 2gb smaller.... and considering the size of the nano... it should be a smooth transition... color screen... picture viewer....thinner than a pencil.... better battery life... irresistable for all the people who have wanted an ipod

its still made the same way, w/ the metal shiny back and the white plastic or wutever cover. so hopefully it shouldnt break... and this has flash memory (not a hard drive) which is better.

Mini Ipods suck.... its not much smaller than a normal one, not all that less expensive, and it holds a small fraction of the amount of songs.

This however, look very nice, but once again.... you're better off with a regular Ipod.... this looks like it could crack easily.

I actually like my iPod mini. It does have a smaller HD in it and no color screen, but it was woth saving the $100 since I wont use 30G for music anyhow.

This however, look very nice, but once again.... you're better off with a regular Ipod.

That's what I've got, the 40 gig. It's fine with me, it doesn't have to be as small as a thumbtack, which is where it seems they're going next with these small sizes. 1,000 songs at least for me isn't enough to carry around, so I love my 40gig model. I wouldn't mind getting the 60 gig and really go crazy.

I actually like my iPod mini. It does have a smaller HD in it and no color screen, but it was woth saving the $100 since I wont use 30G for music anyhow.
Yeah I like mini IPod much better then the regular one.

wow u people really must be music loves... i only have 3gb of music :P

The nano looks really cool, but it's a shame that they're going to phase out the mini.
The last thing I need is another obsolete piece of portable audio equipment cluttering up my apartment.

Anyone wanna buy a 20 year old Sony Walkman?

;)

I'm not getting a iPod Nano. I have a regular iPod. I like the word "Nano". "Nano" was a reference to "Mork & Mindy" where Robin Willams was saying "Nano, Nano".:lol:

That's what I've got, the 40 gig. It's fine with me, it doesn't have to be as small as a thumbtack, which is where it seems they're going next with these small sizes. 1,000 songs at least for me isn't enough to carry around, so I love my 40gig model. I wouldn't mind getting the 60 gig and really go crazy.

precisely, when I get around to getting an IPod, I want one that's going to carry at least 20GB, I didn't realize that 40 and 60 ones even existed! Damn, you can really let your music collections roam free on 60 gigs. That would be equivilent to at about 6000 75 minute cd's ripped at 192 bit

yeah 6000 is wayyy to many CD's thats like $60,000 !

yea but with 60 gigs, you can store basically every song you ever wanted, so it'd be well worth it, lol

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(AP) -- Ever since Apple Computer Inc. jumped into the music player business with the original iPod in 2001, the rest of the consumer electronics industry has been playing catch-up. So far, nobody has come close in terms of coolness or sales.

That's unlikely to change anytime soon.

Apple, refusing to stand still, has released its trimmest full-featured iPod yet. The iPod Nano plays music, displays photos, is cleverly designed and is very small.

And if that weren't impressive enough, the Nano's battery lasts more than 14 hours on a single charge.

Unlike regular iPods that store songs on hard drives, the Nano uses solid-state memory. That makes the Nano less prone to skipping when dropped or jostled, though that has never really been a problem with its bulkier brethren.

The flash memory, plus an internal redesign, gives the Nano a more responsive feel. It also makes it possible to squeeze a lot of bang into a package just over a quarter inch thick.

In fact, the Nano is 80 percent smaller than the original 2001 iPod and 62 percent smaller than the iPod Mini that it replaced. The Nano is only as tall as a business card and it's three fingers wide.

The Nano is nevertheless bigger than the less capacious and cheaper iPod Shuffle, which lacks a display. And it has more features than previous versions of the regular iPod line, including a world clock, a built-in stopwatch and a software-based screen lock.

Available in black or white, the Nano comes in two configurations: A 2-gigabyte model (enough for about 500 pop songs) for $199 and a 4 GB model (1,000 songs) for $249. By comparison, a 20 GB hard-drive iPod is $299.

Like the larger iPods, navigation is simple. Scrolling through menus and songs is as simple as sliding a finger around a "click wheel." Embedded buttons enable quick track skipping.

Like all iPods, the Nano only works with Apple's free iTunes software for either Windows and Mac OS X computers. That locks you into the iTunes Music Store, which remains the most impressive site for buying music online.

The Nano supports a variety of music formats, but not Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Media.

You can filled up a 4 GB Nano with about 680 songs -- including some lengthy classical pieces -- in about 10 minutes.

To test out the battery claims, leave on with the volume at about 50 percent -- it lasted about 14 hours, 30 minutes -- a half hour longer than Apple claims.

The color screen is a nice addition from the traditional monochrome iPods of the past. Still, color is hardly necessary to navigate and listen to music, though the Nano does display album art.

The color does come in handy for viewing pictures. Despite the screen's dimensions -- just 1.5 inches when measured diagonally -- photos, especially close-ups, were clear. Too bad, unlike regular iPods, there's no connector to display pictures on a television set.

The Nano can, though, serve as a substitute for pictures moms and dads carry in their wallets. The built-in slideshow feature supports background music, though I found it cuts down battery life to about four hours if used continuously.

So what's there not to like about the Nano?

For one, the rechargeable battery will eventually have to be replaced. Like other iPods, it's not as simple as swapping in some new Duracells. The Nano, because of its size and tight construction, appears to be even more difficult than regular iPods to disassemble.

The Nano also requires a USB connection to transfer songs or pictures from a PC and to charge the device. Apple's own FireWire, ironically, can't be used to sync up a Nano though iPod FireWire cables do fit and can charge the battery.

That limitation wasn't a problem on my PC with its fast USB 2.0 connection, but my 2001 Power Mac only supports the older, slower USB 1.1. It took several hours to fill up the Nano on that system.

But the biggest problem, which also turns out to be its biggest selling point, is size. The Nano is so small that it tends to disappear quite easily on a cluttered desk. It's also conceivable that more than a few Nanos will be forgotten in pockets and sent through the washing machine.

And though a Nano can easily slide into the pocket of a tight pair of jeans, it feels far more susceptible to snapping or bending if sat on the wrong way.

And maybe that's a hint from Apple: If you want to get slim, get a new Nano and hit the gym.