Yes, if you’re just looking at how many gigs they hold. But really, I think the Nano is aimed at a different market.
I wanted a flash-based player because I want to be able to run with it. All the other iPods, with the exception of the shuffle, are based on a hard drive, which skips and/or can be damaged by jarring it. As running involves a lot of jarring, a hard-drive based system was not an option for me. Also, it’s much smaller than the 20G iPod. So if size is an issue, then the nano wins. The shuffle didn’t hold enough, and I didn’t like the controls (or lack thereof), so I never bought one of those, either.
When the nano was announced, it fit all my criteria, so I bought one. Yippee!
But flash based mp3 players have been around for while now. I have a Sandisk 512 MB, holds about 240 songs and is perfect for working out. Is there something special about the nano? What kind of battery does the nano use?
Well, the reason why I got mine was because I didn’t have 4G of music, and for $70 you can probably buy a 60GB HD into which you can put the rest of your other stuff. Plus, this thing is darn tiny, and doesn’t suffer from the “Colour iPod” sound distortion.
Well, this one is 4Gig, and claims to go for 14+ hours on one battery charge. I’m not sure anything else out there is that big, but I’m no expert.
Basically, I got the iPod because I couldn’t decide which of the other brands to get, and I knew the iPod had a good UI, interfaced with iTunes well, and was little and cute. Others may do the same thing, but I’m too lazy to go looking.
Mine’s here, and it appears to be about 3/4 full on the battery right out of the box. It put my whole music collection on it, plus several podcasts, and is only half full.
The only thing that’s a little bad is that it’s got several songs on there twice. Not the fault of the iPod, though - any music I buy from iTunes gets copied to .mp3 so I can access it via the TiVo, as the TiVo doesn’t read .m4p files. I don’t get doubles on TiVo because it simply skips the .m4p files; however the iPod is smart enough to read both formats, and so I get two copies of each. Rather annoying. Anyone got any great ideas on how to arrange stuff so this doesn’t happen (aside from the obvious - keeping two completely separate folders, one for TiVo, one for iPod, with doubles of all my music in each, in the correct formats.)
So I’m a student in need of a mobile USB flash drive.
I was in the store today looking at thumbdrives. I can get one that’ll do me for around $40 CDN (256mb).
Then I remembered the Nano was out. I don’t have any mobile music player (including cd players) and have about 6GB of music on my computer.
Does anyone think its worth it for me to go with the Nano instead of a basic portable drive?
The size, colour screen and memory capacity appeals to me I’m just not sure if it’ll be a waste of my much needed funds.
Wearia, you can also look into an iPod Shuffle. $99 (or less) will get you a half gig player that runs for over 12 hours on one charge. If you are around your computer often, then you’ll never want for a larger one…you’ll always be uploading new songs, etc and you won’t be able to listen to 240 songs on one charge anyway. You do have to manually set the amount of space reserved for normal files on the flash disk with the iTunes software…which could only become a problem if someone tries to give you large files without you planning ahead.
OK, I give up. Tabby, do you know what those little round felt sticker looking things are that came with the iPod? Are they some kind of cushions to put on the earbuds? Feet for the iPod? Temporary tattoos? Help!
I’m considering it. I like how the I don’t need a cord to plug it in. However the Lack of screen bugs me a bit. I guess its not any different from a cd player in that respect, but I usually listen to music on my computer and am used to seeing what I’m listening to. However it costs roughly the same as a gig thumbdrive, so given the choice between the two I’d take a Shuffle.
Another Ipod related hijack if I may…Why can’t these things play videos? They obviously have the capacity for it. Is it so hard to make one capable of displaying different videos files?
I bought a shuffle because I too liked how I didn’t need a cord. However, didn’t plug into my VAIO, so I took it back. After the 2nd one didn’t work, I bought the cord and it worked fine. I like it still, but it kind of ruined the reason I wanted it in the first place. So, if you like the idea of a thumb drive type setup, test it out first, especially if you have a VAIO.
No clue. I took mine to Target last night, and it fit in a bunch of the various accessories that were built for docking iPods, but it didn’t fit in the one thing I wanted to buy - an FM adaptor for use in the car. Even though the adaptor said “for use with all iPods with docking stations,” the nano’s earbud port and docking port weren’t spaced correctly to work with the FM gizmo. It seems that the Nano is new enough that accessories are going to take a bit to catch up.
But I do love the thing, and I’ve only had it a couple days. Went for my run this morning listening to NPR’s “Most emailed stories” and it was GREAT.
