Apple iPod nano 8 GB Purple 4th Generation

With eight amazing colors, a new curved design, and great new features, iPod nano rocks like never before. The Genius Playlist feature finds the songs in your music library that go great together and makes a playlist for you. With its built-in accelerometer, iPod nano is made to move. Give it a shake, and it shuffles to a different song in your library. Turn it on its side to flip through your album art in Cover Flow. And tilt, move, and play accelerometer-inspired games (games available separately). Watching movies, TV shows, and video is even more fun on the sharp 2-inch screen. And your photos (up to 7,000 of them) look great in portrait or landscape view. Available in 8 GB and 16 GB models, the 8 GB iPod nano puts up to 2,000 songs or 8 hours of video in your pocket.

With a new curved design and great new features, iPod nano rocks like never before. Click to enlarge.

Up to 2,000 songs, 8 hours of video, or 7,000 photos in your pocket. Click to enlarge.

Just under a quarter-inch deep. Click to enlarge.

Available in nine amazing colors; the (PRODUCT)RED nano is available exclusively through Apple. Click to enlarge.

Enjoy album art in Cover Flow, games, videos, and photos in landscape mode. (Green nano shown here.)

A Musical Genius
Say you’re listening to a song you really like and want to hear other tracks that go great with it. The Genius Playlist feature finds the songs in your music library that go great together and makes a Genius Playlist for you. It’s like having your own highly intelligent, personal DJ.

Find Your Music Faster
It’s even easier to find the song you want to hear. Now you can view your album art in Cover Flow. Or just press and hold the Center button to browse by album or artist. When you find the right song, press the Center button to add it to your on-the-go playlist.

Rock and Roll Over
Tilt or turn iPod nano on its side, and you’ll listen, watch, and play in new ways. You can flip through your album art with Cover Flow. Or, vertically speaking, see more albums and artists on the screen at one time.

Shake Your Groove Thing
Sometimes, we could all use a little unpredictability. And now you can shake to change your music. Just give iPod nano a shake, and it shuffles to a different song in your music library. You’ll always be surprised by what you’ll hear.

Let the Games Begin
Now you can get in on games made especially for iPod nano and the accelerometer. They respond to the way you move, so they’re immersive, addictive, and a blast. The iPod nano comes with Maze, which lets you work your way through vast mazes by tilting and moving. You can find even more games on the iTunes Store.

Even Your Photos Rock
Pull hundreds of photos from your pocket and share them wherever you go. Hold iPod nano upright and see your photos in portrait view. Turn the player on its side to see them in landscape. Your photos look beautiful in their proper aspect ratio on the vibrant, 320-by-240-resolution display.

The World’s Biggest Small Screen
Watching movies, TV shows, and videos is big fun on iPod nano. And the high-resolution picture looks crisp and vivid on the 2-inch widescreen display. So you can always have a little video with you.

Reduced Environmental Impact
The iPod nano embodies Apple’s continuing environmental progress. It is designed with the following features to reduce environmental impact:

• Arsenic-free glass
• Brominated flame retardant-free
• Mercury-free
• PVC-free
• Highly recyclable aluminum enclosure

What’s in the Box
iPod nano, earphones, USB 2.0 cable, dock adapter, quick start guide

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Great Ipod
I own a 30gb ipod video. The batteries don’t hold their charge as well as they used to and so I decided to get a 16 gb nano. First of all, I love the size, I couldn’t believe how small and light it was. The capacity was great for what I wanted it for, I plan to just put the music on that I listen to most of the time and use the other ipod for everything else. I found the click wheel to be responsive, I noticed that others had complained about that. Now, I do have the bose speakers and JBL on stage. The nano will play but not charge. I looked on apple’s website and it says that the nano is compatible with the JBL on stage II and III and the bose speaker II. It doesn’t tell you which ones will also charge the nano, I don’t know how they are determining whether its compatible, will it just play it or play it and charge it? I couldn’t find that information. Overall though I would recommend the nano.

3 Stars Useful information on this Ipod
I will try to bring out the important and useful information in this review:

-The design is cool, very slim and good looking and the variety of colors is also great.

-The increased capacity of 16GB is the most important improvement over older nanos.

-The rest of the features are there (Genius, Shake, etc.), but that is not so important from my point of view.

Based on this only, I would rate this product 5 stars. However, I have given 3 stars based on the most important low point of this new ipod. This new 4G nano is not compatible with car stereos and speakers. I bought one for my girlfriend and she had a 2G 8GB nano which worked perfectly with a Sony Car Stereo (playback, control and charging). When we tried the new nano in the car it doesn’t charge or playback! Then, we tried in my car (another Sony model) and it does play but doesn’t charge. The Altec Lansing or Logitech speakers did not charge the ipod either. This is just not acceptable!! I hope Apple can fix this in the next software version for this ipod.

If you do not own speakers or don’t mind to buy new ones (I don’t know if there are versions for this new ipod yet) and you like the new ipod then buy it. It is a good product. But be adviced that it will not be compatible with most speakers or car stereos.

If you need 16GB this is good for you. Otherwise, please stick with the older 8GB versions of the nano.

3 Stars Get a protective cover with a clip!
I bought my husband one for his birthday. Bought it on Tuesday. Uploaded songs to it on Wednesday. Gave it to him on Thursday. He dropped it on Sunday. Not far – less than 2 feet. The glass shattered. The LCD still works, the music still plays but the glass is not tempered, not coated and not shatter resistant. I don’t know if a protective cover would have helped but at least I wouldn’t have broken glass everywhere. They either need to include a replacement glass or sell it with a small clip on it like the shuffle. We have an appt. with the apple store in Plano and hope that Apple will provide a free replacement as they have done for others in similar cases.

4 Stars IPOD NAN Review
We found the Nano to be everything we expected. Our only difficulty was that the original unit ordered somehow got lost in the mail. Amazon, however responded immediately and shipped a replacement unit. (After the replacement arrived, the original turn up as well). Thanks for the good support

5 Stars Get album artwork into iTunes before you sync your iPod
I have over 11 GB of music on iTunes and I’m a runner, so the 16GB iPod nano is the iPod I’ve been waiting for. I had a couple hard drive failures in the past ten years which gave me another reason to hold out for the flash-based iPod nanos to increase their capacity and come down in price. The price is right (under $200) and I really like the simple sleek minimalist design. I bought mine through Amazon at the end of September 2008 and do not have any trouble with the click wheel being sluggish. Maybe this was only an issue with a few of the first ones to come out and has already been fixed?

I already use iTunes (since 2002) to send music from my Mac to my stereo receiver. I had to download version 8.0 of iTunes for the Mac (I had 7 and version 8 is required to sync with the iPod nano 4G). After that I hooked up my iPod to my MacBook, went for a run, and when I came back my entire 11GB music collection had been automatically transferred to the iPod. Sweet! There is an option to transfer only checked songs but I haven’t used this yet (I will if space becomes an issue when I begin transferring some photos, too).

This is my first iPod and I’m super impressed by the way most features were very intuitive and easy to figure out. No wonder iPod tramples all other MP3 players. The only things I had to go online to figure out were how to completely reformat my iPod (something which shouldn’t be TOO easy) and how to shuffle playlists rather than shuffle my entire music collection. To shuffle a playlist, first choose “Settings”, “Shuffle” and change to “Songs.” Then go to Playlists and press the play button when you are on the name of the playlist you want, BEFORE opening it to the screen where see specific songs.

When you add new music to iTunes, my advice is get any album artwork BEFORE you sync your iPod. All my music in iTunes was transferred from CDs and I did not have album artwork either on iTunes or my iPod the first time I synced the two. The command “Get Album Artwork” requires you to register at the iTunes store (the artwork is free, and they are high-quality images). I signed up on the iTunes store, ran the command “Get Album Artwork” and about three-fourths of my albums got matching artwork in a matter of minutes. A small number of these got an incorrect match. I fixed these and tracked most of the other missing album artwork for several dozen remaining albums in 2-3 hours on either Wikipedia, Amazon or Google images (the image quality varies a great deal in all three places). A few times I had to go to MySpace music or a band’s own website. Once you find the album art, in iTunes simply get “info” on a song with the blank note image, click the “Artwork” tab, then drag the album art from your browser window into the iTunes artwork window. After the first time iTunes info defaults to Artwork and the process takes only a few mouse clicks and movements each time. Syncing my iPod again still did not transfer the new artwork. I think the artwork is saved as part of the song file, and apparently the iPod doesn’t re-save the songs (now with artwork included) if they have been transferred over already. I chose the restore command (complete reformat of iPod memory) which downloaded and ran in ten minutes or so, and this time when it synced I got all the album artwork with the songs. Transfer speed from iTunes on my MacBook to my iPod nano was 23 minutes for 11.5 GB = 2 minutes per GB. So even a complete reformat and re-transfer of nearly the entire contents of the iPod nano was no big hassle. (If you only need artwork added or changed for a few albums, I expect you could just delete those selected songs and sync again, instead of a reformat of the entire iPod)

I was amazed at how few hours it took me to get everything set up and running just the way I wanted it. Keep in mind that I used iTunes for the past six years (to play music at home and burn CDs for my car or portable CD/MP3 player) and already had all my playlists set up in advance.

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