Remember when this was the best selling iPod on the market?
The iPod mini was introduced in 2004 and held an INSANE 4 GB of music, sported the original “click wheel” and a monochrome screen. A little over a year later it was replaced with the awesomeness that is the iPod nano. Now. the nano has had more versions released than any other iPod, save for the retroactively named “classic”, and with the exception of this chubby little guy…
… the form factor has not changed much as the storage slowly grew from 2GB to 16GB.
But last week, that all changed. The return of Steve Jobs wasn’t the only reason the Apple fanboys had a reason to get excited as the 5th generation nano was revealed to have lower prices, an FM radio tuner and a built in video camera. Move over Flip Videos of the world, there’s a new sherriff in town when it comes to low priced, on-the-go video recording.
See! See! It’s that little black dot in the lower left hand corner. Now there are a million “hands-on” videos out there if you want to see this new nano in action but sine we here at Casual Geekery don’t have the budget to buy one and don’t have the juice to get one sent to us for free I have a substitute for you. Pull out your cell phone, turn on the still/video camera and shoot some pictures/video. And there you have it. Odds are it’s slightly better than that with some cool filters including x-ray (which I question the legitimacy of) and cyborg mode which begs the question why would Apple admit to having developed cyborgs to take over the world?
Poking fun at the nano aside, I think this is a great step in the right direction of being able to carry one device in your pocket for almost anything. Add some internet support and a decent text input system and you’d have a very powerful device… oh right.
That’s called the iPod touch. Which, despite many, many reputable rumors to the contrary, did not get a camera with it’s third gen release. Other than more price drops and a bump to 64GB of storage, there’s not much new to report on my favorite not-quite-an-iPhone (I regretfully purchased a first gen). But the people over at ifixit have a good teardown of the new third gen complete with the conclusion that it has an FM transceiver in it and PLENTY of room for a camera. Despite Jobs’ assertion that customers don’t want video in the iPod touch. That’s right Steve, just keep telling yourself that. Just like you told yourself customers didn't want to watch video on small, pocket sized devices.
(Look for Spence’s take on iTunes 9 coming soon… the review that is, not iTunes 9. That’s available now and awesome.)
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