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48 out of 58 people found this review helpful
3.5 stars
"Beautiful, but TOO DELICATE"
Pros: Size, Style. and 4gig Flash
Cons: Crummy Battery, The unit is completely exposed to fingerprints and scratches
Summary: I got my Nano and I love it, so long as I can admire it from afar. Why is it so difficult to come up with a design that can handle the minimum wear and tear I put my ipods through? The front scratches just from using the click wheel and I have only had the thing a couple of days! The back is covered in fingerprints and scratches from who knows what. I purchased this the day it hit the stores and the demo unit looked like it had been sitting there for a year. COME ON, for a company that can be so innovative and progressive, you would think that they could at least give us something that we can admire without having to buy and ugly case for. And why can Sony develop 50 hr batterys and Apple is lucky to make it past 10??? Otherwise I love the NANO.
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the ipod nano has a little skin for it but it isnt even a skin at all its a friggen sock and it can be mistaking fro a real sock thrown into the washer and who knows wat could happen plus the thing will go from oranger to automatic brown from all the dirt (which could harm your ipod) apple you suck they you dont know computors or mp3 players apple you suck (apple get a longer lasting battery and a better skin for the ipod nano and i might change my mind
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I am a newbie to the whole MP3 scene, but I love my Nano. You just have to be careful with it. Which you should be anyway considering it is a $250 music player. Anyway no complaints on my end. Hope everyone is doing well.
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Get the invisible shield for your nano. I did as soon as I bought my nano and there is not one scratch or fingerprint on it. The best thing about it is that it's practically indestructable and you can't even see it! it's $20 but the price includes lifetime product replacement. So they'll send you a new one practically whenever you want, all you have to do is send the old one back to them after you get your new one to continue the warantee. If you get it, make sure you follow the application instructions on the website as it isn't provided in the package. It's definately the best acssessory you could possible buy for your new nano. I think the website is http://www.shieldzone.com/
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I've just recently purchased an Ipod Nano Black, along with the F.M transmitter to use
for The Gym or power walking. The unit does appear fragile, as a matter of fact when I rec'd it, I was quite suprise of the weight and appearance, I knew for sure that it would eventually fall apart. But so far it it is sturdy for such a small unit. But if you handle it with care, you should not encounter any problems. As for the accessories, Apple is no different from any of the other Vendors who sell extras for there MP3 playsers. Just search around for the Ipod accessores, an I can say I've found some really nice Bargans omline. Otherwise I must commend Apple for a nice product. P/S as for the comments on the Scratches, we all just have to be a little more Gentle with our Ipods. -
It is very true. The first day of use and it was all scratched on the back. But it rocks. After that i started to use the leather case that comes w/ it and i have no more scrathes. I would also love to have extended battery life or at least one that i could replace w/o apple's assistance. I recommend this product because it is pretty much like the Shuffle except that it has all features of a bigger ipod keeping it small size
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I have read so many complaints about how easy this to scratch. First of all, one look at the glossy black finish on this player tells me one thing, get a case. This is not really a tall order considering the wide variety of tight skins that can be applied to this teeny and powerful player. I bought a thin rubber skin that allows me to access all of the features of the Nano without adding any bulk or weight. A perfect case would be a rubber skin that is made out of a non-slip material. Secondly, the contributing reviewers should stop being so anal about scratches on a device that will typically be carried around in a pocket with coins, keys, and sharp devices. If you're going to drop over $200 on an electronic device that is about the size of for credit cards stacked on one another, you should logically be concerned with protecting the fine circuitry that is obviously contained therein, as well as the illustrious finish surrounding the device.
What's really important here is that the device functions perfectly as advertised, the controls are very simple and easy to access, with a sound quality is outstanding when playing correctly recorded tunes. Apple is to be commended for not adding a lot of unnecessary for frills that would compromise the size and portability of this beautiful player. I have been an Apple hater for years. This device has completely broken down that formidable barrier. -
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I guess I did the proverbial "leap before you look" when I bought this little gem. I had to laugh when I read Jasmine France's summary, on cnet, of how to handle the face plate scratches. It lacked imagination by taking the "throw more money at it" approach to solving the problem. One piece of carefully placed, clear packing tape does the trick, and it costs about five cents.
I won't waste your time detailing my opinion about the ups and downs of this players audio performance or battery life or navigation, as these subjects have been covered sufficiently in previous posts. What I will talk about is a subject that gets little attention in most online reviews and Apple's web site. That is the proprietary file structure used by apple on the ipod. If you plug the ipod into a windows machine and navigate to it with window's explorer you will see the music files (as long as explorer is set to "view hidden files and folders"), however their titles and organization do not follow their original ID3 format. In other words, you may have copied an album from your hard drive, that was organized by artist\album\title, only to find that itunes has hashed each \title into a four alpha character name and spread all of the \titles into multiple directories with names that do not correspond to the original artist\album organization on your PC. If you drag and drop a folder of music, using explorer, from your PC hard drive, to the ipod, the player will not recognize that folder or its contents. You are required to use itunes (or Anapod Explorer by Redchair) to transfer music files to the ipod if you want ipod to play these files.
Let's say your at the office and want to listen to some music on the ipod using the desk top or notebook. You probably don't want to install itunes on the office computer so you are forced to hunt and peck through multiple ipod folders with explorer until you find the titles you want (remember, they're hashed and spread about). You then drag them to the hard drive (but they of course retain the hashed titles) or play them one at a time with windows media player. Even if you had itunes installed, itunes would not allow you to populate the desktop or notebook hard drive.
Get the picture? Proprietary file formats and software are a trend in the portable music player industry that burdens the consumer's right to manipulate their purchased digital music for the sake of copy protection. You could debate copy protection and fair use all the live long day and accomplish nothing or you can vote with your wallet (or purse).
As a replacement to my vanished nano I purchased the Creative Zen (I won't tell you which one because I'm not trying to plug Creative over Apple) because it allows bidirectional file transfer between player and any host computer independent of proprietary software and file structure. Connected to the host computer it performs as a stand alone hard drive that conforms to the NTFS file system. It did require a simple firmware upgrade downloaded from Creative's web site and this firmware was a result of intense pressure from their customers. -
I am totally with you with the whole battery thing, that is half the reason I got rid of my mini. I disagree with your complaint that it scratches, sure it gets fingerprints, but you can wipe those off, and if you are just careful it wont get scratched. I have had mine for a month, and it has two scratches...because I dropped it...twice. I do understand that it is annoying, i totally hear you on that
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It might not have been flash based, but at least it didn't scratch, a major plus.
I have no case for my mini and it sits in my purse all day and it hasn't scratched once.
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I purchsed my Nano on the 23 sept and it has scratches all over. Very poorly constructed. Just yesterday the screen , has a ink mark which does not allow me to use the unit. I will send the unit for replacement.
The nano makes Apple look bad, they should recall all of them and better the product.
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I know that the battery life isnt that good... but how is it crummy? 14 hours and cnet got 15 hrs... are you really gonna listen to a sony mp3 player for 50 hours straight?
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Dude You should really buy Ipod nano tubes.They protect the ipod.
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Yea it scraches way to easy i had mine for 2 days now and it looks like i had it for 2 months at least and im not even hard on my Nano. I keep it in my pocket. You are force to buy a case or skin if you want to see it in any nice shape a year from now.
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