Friday, November 16, 2007

3rd generation 4GB silver iPod Nano

I recently bought the new 3rd iPod nano 4GB to check out the new split user interface and was disappointed by the following shortcomings.
  • Aluminium front cover that is very scratch prone ( a simple wiping with the included cloth was enough to put a scratch around the click wheel)
  • highly polished chrome back cover that starts looking ugly with all the smudges it collects very easily
  • TV out no longer supported via the headphone jack (special 50$ dock and $50 apple approved cables required)
  • tiny 2 inch screen not too comfortable to watch a full length movie (apple should have stuck to providing video on the itouch (best size) or classic (better size) screen )
  • colors on the 8GB models are too dull. (I would have preferred the earlier generation shuffle colors (bright orange, bright green, bright pink etc)
  • Worst of all you can no longer connect your ipod nano to your computer and then play the songs on your nano via itunes.

I wanted to buy the 160GB classic for the huge storage that I would get to store and watch my extensive ipod converted video library, but the TV out feature has put me off and I would probably not be buying the classic until I read that a future update puts back the TV out via the headphone jacks.