Nano Screen Issue
September 27th, 2005
Or the not-so Nano screen issue.
Watching the adverts for the new iPod Nano fills me with mixed emotions. I for one held off from spending well over £100 on buying any kind of iPod. When the first one came out you could feel the hype. But as we all know in the world of technology bigger, or in this case smaller, less expensive, and better things will always leave you with that nagging feeling of wishing you’d waited just a little longer. Of course you have to balance this out with actually having to wait and miss something you want for several months. For example I didn’t mind paying a little extra for a good digital camera, as I took some worthwhile photos that otherwise would not have been taken if I waited.
iPod Mini owners might be slightly peeved with the release of the Nano, but also might be smirking slightly with stories of scratched LCDs and cases. A once proud owner of a Nano might be a little more irrate having spent a sizable amount of money for something so easily scratched. Or you would have thought considering the amount of bad press it has been getting.
I have seen how some people treat expensive electronics, so I’m a bit skeptical. I wouldn’t keep a Nano in the same pocket as keys anyway. I’ve dug up a nice Nano stress testing link for you to make up your own minds on the durability of the thing. Though personally I’m sticking to old fashioned minidiscs for a little while longer.
September 27th, 2005 at 11:48 pm
I want a mini i-pod so bad… they’ve gone down $50 here in the states since my cousin got hers… I still don’t have the money. Nano’s are too small for my liking.
September 28th, 2005 at 4:22 am
Great technology, sexy looking and quite trendy - that goes for all the iPods. The big difference between the previous iPods and the new Nano is that the Nano uses a flash drive in contrast to the others, who all use hard drives, which in turn means more power consumption due to moving parts. Of course a flash drive nowadays only has a shorter life-cycle compared to hard drives, but I can see the ups.
Now come to cons. The iPod range, no matter how cool is using close-source technology, has inbuilt DRM which shits me and requires traditionally iTunes. Although KDE and GNOME both have jumped and created some pretty nifty apps to circumvent the DRM and the necessity of iTunes, I still need to have my music in the iPod desired format.
If the iPod would play OGG files and can be accessed like all other hotplug devices I would have bought one or two by now.