Diving into albums gives you a list displaying the cover art, which looks impressive considering the size of the thumbnail it is showing. This is down to the sharp x pixel resolution display. This may sound low, but given that the display is 1. This is where the iPod nano is likely to win fans, but the display, although it could be labelled as gimmicky, is beautiful to look at. It is bright, vibrant and detailed, and that's just as important on something small as well as on larger devices.
The basic structure of the interface requires a swipe to the right to act as a "back" control: if you are in the settings, for example, you scroll up and down the list, tap the option you want to make a change, then swipe right to return to the previous screen.
Once you are playing a track, the iPod nano just wants to show you the album art filling the screen and we quite like this. It does, once again, drive you to make sure you have art for all your albums, although once you clip the iPod nano on to yourself, it will look like you are wearing a badge with that album on it. That is, until the screen dims and goes to sleep.
Touching the screen again brings up play controls and swiping will give you repeat and shuffle options and you can also create a Genius playlist from any track simply by pressing the icon. The clip means you can easily attach it to yourself, be it on the strap of your bikini whilst rollerblading along the Brighton shorefront yeah, right or inside your suit whilst riding the Tube. We found it was secure enough to clip onto the waist band of a pair of shorts when running.
The iPod nano has been a popular model with runners, due to the size, weight and ease of slipping into an armband, without losing the controls, as you could always click through the cover to change tracks. The new nano loses this simplicity and sweaty hands on the run won't really work so well with the touch controls.
You do get "shake to shuffle" though, but other than that, we'd advise runners to look at third-party sports headphones which come with remote functions. This means you'll be able to find out what is playing with a long press on the button of compatible headphones, but you don't get the simplicity of then being able to talk to the device to control it, which we think is a strange omission.
The sound quality is good, although we don't think it has the clarity of the iPod touch. An immediate shortcoming is the poor quality of the bundled headphones that Apple supplies and if you want to get the best from the nano, a pair of decent headphones will improve things no end. Elsewhere the iPod nano is happy to take your photos through iTunes and throws up some interesting features. The screen is small, so this is only really going to be a novelty, but if you have tagged events and people in iPhoto then these will be carried across to the nano, so you can browse by faces.
To tune in, you press the arrows on the screen to find the next strongest signal, or you can manually tune to a frequency by swiping a bar at the bottom of the screen. If you're not sure what you're after, the nano picks the strongest stations in your area, although it only displays the frequencies rather than station names.
Once you're listening to a station, it'll display the name if the signal is good enough. One cool feature is the ability to pause a radio station for up to 15 minutes and skip forwards and backwards through the recording. How an average user is supposed to find the menu to do that, we're not sure, but it's worth hunting down. There's a built-in pedometer which measures the number of steps you take and uploads the results to nikeplus. Incidentally, iTunes remains, as always, a hateful, teeth-grindingly slow piece of software.
You can copy your photos to show off, although as the nano has a smaller screen than many digital cameras, we're not sure why you'd want to. Apple was very proud of the clock on the nano at the launch we attended, and can confirm that it is, indeed, a clock. You could make your own wrist-strap and wear the nano as a proper watch if you're mad, or buy a strap accessory if you're a frightening Apple fanatic. Battery life is good at 24 hours of audio, which is nine more hours than you get from the shuffle, according to Apple's figures.
Ultimately the sixth-generation nano, or iPod run, is a great product for a very specific niche -- those who want more control over their MP3 player in the gym, or those who just want something new to flash about when exercising. A little odd is the migration of a clip from the iPod shuffle to the iPod nano. But on the other hand, given how easy it is to lose the iPod nano at only And of course it makes for easy creation of an iPod nano watch using a sweat band, which is what you really bought one for anyway.
The user interface is not exactly like that of an iPod, but not exactly iOS either. While the visuals are closer to that of an iPod touch, the navigational hierarchy — with swipes and prods moving left and right through menu layers — is reminiscent of classic iPods. The press-and-hold wibbly wobbly rearrangement of the home screen icons is straight iPhone, though.
Similarly getting back to the home screen takes much longer without a dedicated home button. Occasions also arise when menu items are hidden off screen with no way of finding them save through swiping about randomly. The iPod nano is just as easy to control as the iPod shuffle, when out jogging, or boating about on a rowing machine. In fact, whereas the scroll wheel could be a little difficult to make fine adjustments on sometimes, the physical volume buttons and lesser need to make small, precise movements to navigate menus mean that the new iPod nano is often easier to use than the old.
The gap between the iPod nano and iPod touch is wider than ever now. Learn more about how to recycle your iPod. Earphones with Remote and Mic These earbud headphones have convenient buttons that let you adjust volume and control music and video playback.
See more accessories in the Apple Online Store. For Arabic and Hebrew language support, some UI elements are not right to left. Fitness spoken feedback is available in seven languages: Chinese Mandarin , English U.
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