I bought the 4 GB black nano the first day it came out. (Apple Store in Montgomery County, MD) I also have a Shuffle, which is fine for a small amount of music. The nano picks up where the Shuffle leaves off. This is the best of both worlds. The clear and bright screen gives quick access to playlists and the ability to browse my music collection, yet small enough to be ultra portable. Even for a small screen the photos I imported from my laptop look nice. I just wish it had a TV out feature. Maybe a 3rd party solution will come out.
Synching with calendar and contacts works without much effort. Having a few games to play while I am waiting is a nice touch. I installed a line-in to my car to allow me to play it off my auxillary mode. The sound quality is quite impressive.
To summarize, this is the best MP3 player I have ever seen or used.
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The ipod nano is a great product, but I am currently having problems with what I have been seeing. I have noticed that they scratch VERY easily (all too easily, and I don't know how the people who were testing this thing overlooked that). My friend recently bought one and during a meeting, she placed it in her front pocket. She sat down, and the ipod SNAPPED! I have seen that they are not very durable, so, anybody who is active who carries these ipods, be aware. These are not sturdy MP3's. I suggest to avoid these casualties by:
1. Buy cases or armbands. These will protect from scratching and snapping. I hope.
2. Don't carry while being very active. These have a tendency to get dropped or scratched OR snapped. Or all of the above.
3. DON'T BUY ONE AT ALL!!! The ipod 5th generation (otherwise known as ipod videos) are not much more expensive than the 4gb ipod nano. Buy one of those instead. They are sturdier and bigger (which means easier to handle) and also have good video and audio quality. Or, try another brand of MP3 player! I don't think ipod has any other ideas to do anything else with an MP3. Try lookin into Creative, Phillips (I recently purchased a phillips gogear 6gb MP3 player for 198.99 and it is exellent quality.), or Dell. Try something new for a change people!
This is clearly the next generation of the ipod. All the sound quality, color screen and chic design of the regular ipod now compressed into an even smaller design. Though 4 GB MIGHT be too small for serious music listeners, come on, you'll run out of battery life (14 hours) before ever having to listen to the same song again. So alright, an 6 or 8 gb model would probably be more appreciated, boohoo, you'll be forced to choose only your most favorite 1000 songs from your music library.
I have a 3G iPod w/ 40G of memory. I have about 3G worth of songs, books, and Podcasts on it. I'm getting one of these as soon as I can get my hands on one.
Ok - so to point out some serious issues to the haters - this is a flash player. There is 0, count them, 0 4GB flash players on the market - until now anyway. It might be a little pricey if you compare it to hard drive based systems but 2GB flash players retail for around 200 - what a surprise. Add on top of that that any person in school gets a discount. While it would be nice to see a mini with 8GB or 10GB this gem is amazing. The battery life listed is (having read reviews from people who actually have it) less than actual with one reviewer getting 20 hours... Essential add ons would be the lanyard/headphone combo that really makes the whole thing amazing. And to all the haters - I've had an FM tuner on an mp3 player and I thought it was quite possibly the most useless thing I've ever owned...
I love listening to my new ipod Nano 4GB. I just love the attractive slim design. I appreciate the nice intigration with iTunes with the fast processor, crisp clean sound with zero skipping. I only have one problem to voice about it. The improved ipod battery is not improved enough in my humble opinion. My final solution for this only challenge was to pick up a batterygeek 100+ hour ipod battery. So far everything is sounding pretty good.
this is just best of the best what i have been waiting for it's very good for freshmen 4 school and am going out to buy it now!
Yeah, for $50 more you get a 20G ipod...but for someone like me, the smaller the better. I purchased the 4G model which currently holds 780 songs, 19 podcasts, and 40 photos. That's 2.5 days worth of continuous entertainment...plenty for most people. The nano also packs great sound and is the most intuitive MP3 player on the market. For those who complain that it doesn't have an FM tuner, I have two responses. First, so what? Secondly, and in one word, "podcasting." Thanks to Apple, podcasting has exploded over the last few months - and I am a huge fan. I subscribe to about 10 podcasts and never find the time to listen to all of them during the week (I am a public transportation commuter in Chicago with about 1 1/2 hours of commuting time each day). Why would apple want to cannibalize such a great medium with an FM tuner? And yes, I said it sounds great. I'm sure someone without a life who listens to music 12 hours a day through their $3,000 Bang&Olfsun headphones will have a gripe, but if you're on the move and want to take your music, photos, and podcasts with you, the nano is unbeatable. I have found the headphone jack being on the bottom is a non-issue and my ONLY gripe is that this thing scratches WAY too easily. I have practically coddled my nano like it is a newborn baby and through extreme care, it still has managed to bear some light scratches. Thus, I am going to use my mini until the cases become available. Again, I cannot stress it enough, it scratches VERY easily - not sure how apple could have overlooked this annoyance in testing.
I will preface this review with the fact that I own a Creative Zen Micro and love it but very nearly bought an iPod Mini. The release of this product prompted me to visit an Apple store to check it out. It is an overall improvement from the Mini but still falls short, in my opinion.
Pros:
Size...absolute best feature. This thing is super small yet offers nearly the same memory options as microdrive players. A third of the weight of my Zen Micro or a Mini.
Color display is nice. Photos viewing also nice but lets be honest, not the reason you buy this device.
Flash memory--always better than hard drive if you can get the same memory capacity.
Cons:
File format limitations. This is the biggest deterent for me. My entire library is WMA. It offers better sound at same bitrate (or same sound at lower bitrate, your choice). Thus, you can save more music in this format. Didn't really want to re-rip or convert my entire collection in MP3 or AAC format.
Also, while i-Tunes is great, it is your only choice. This was the dealbreaker for me.
Memory capacity is great....for a flash player. For many of us, 20 GB is not needed but 1-2 GB isn't enough. I want 6-8 GB and this player took a step in the wrong direction.
Battery life--compared to all players, the nano's battery life is mediocre but compared to other flash players it's pretty awful. In fact, most hard drive players can probably match the nano and some blow it away (Sony).
Sound quality is OK but iPod are traditionally midpack here and the nano is no different. There are many better sounding players out there.
Last, though not a huge flaw, placing the headphone jack on the bottom is going to limit the use of some iPod accessories. Not sure about the motivation here by Apple.
I don't care about FM or voice recording in my DAP and the reception of FM in most players sucks anyhow (why would you want to listen to horrible sounding radio signals instead of digital audio anyways?), so excluding those features doesn't impact my rating.
Overall, it's a damn cool player. If you currently use MP3 format and don't need more than 4 GB, this is easily the best player available for you. Otherwise, you should shop around to compare an see what is most important to you.