Apple today introduced the iPod nano, a revolutionary full-featured iPod that holds 1,000 songs yet is thinner than a standard #2 pencil and less than half the size of competitive players. The iPod nano features an ultra-portable, lightweight design with a gorgeous color screen, Apple’s patent pending Click Wheel and the ability to hold 1,000 songs or 25,000 photos. iPod nano works seamlessly with the iTunes Music Store, the world’s number one digital music service. The iPod nano is available immediately in a 4GB model priced at just $249 and a 2GB model priced at just $199, with both models available in stunning white or black designs.
“iPod nano is the biggest revolution since the original iPod,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO in the press release. “iPod nano is a full-featured iPod in an impossibly small size, and it’s going to change the rules for the entire portable music market.”
iPod nano, thinner than a standard #2 pencil and weighing only 1.5 ounces, comes in two models — the 4GB iPod nano holds up to 1,000 songs and the 2GB iPod nano holds up to 500 songs. iPod nano features Apple’s innovative Click Wheel for precise, one-handed navigation, and its ultra-portable design fits into even the smallest pocket making it easy to take iPod nano to the gym, in the car, traveling, commuting or anywhere you go.
The most fashionable and wearable iPod ever, the iPod nano features optional accessories including lanyard headphones, which integrate the headphone cables into the lanyard, so users can wear their iPod nano around their neck without dangling headphone cables. For customers looking to personalize their iPod nano with colors, an optional set of iPod nano Tubes in pink, purple, blue, green and clear offers fashionable protection in a sheer casing while enabling full operation of all functions including the Click Wheel. Optional armbands available in gray, pink, blue, red and green allow users to wear their iPod nano as the ultimate fashion and sports accessory.
iPod nano features the same 30-pin dock connector as the iPod and iPod mini, allowing it to work effortlessly with a wide range of over 1,000 accessories developed for iPod, including home stereo speakers and iPod car adapters for an incredible music experience at home or in the car.
Featuring seamless integration with the iTunes Music Store and the iTunes digital music jukebox, iPod nano includes Apple’s patent pending Auto-Sync technology that automatically downloads a user’s digital music collection, photos or Podcasts onto iPod nano and keeps it up-to-date whenever iPod nano is plugged into a Mac or Windows computer using USB 2.0. With its stunning, high-resolution color screen, iPod nano allows users to display album art while playing music, view photo slideshows or play games in full color. iPod nano features up to 14 hours battery life and completely skip-free playback, as well as new stopwatch, world clock and screen lock applications.
The 4GB and 2GB white and black models of iPod nano for Mac or Windows are available worldwide immediately for a suggested retail price of $249 (US) and $199 (US) respectively, through the Apple Store, Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers. All iPod nano models include earbud headphones, a USB 2.0 cable and a CD with iTunes for Mac and Windows computers.
New optional accessories designed for iPod nano with the following suggested retail prices include: Lanyard headphones for $39 (US), armbands in five colors each for $29 (US), dock for $29 (US) and a set of iPod nano Tubes in five different colors for $29 (US) and will be available within the next 30 days.
iPod nano requires a Mac with a USB 2.0 port and Mac OS X version 10.3.4 or later and iTunes 4.9 (or later); or a Windows PC with a USB 2.0 port and Windows 2000, XP Home or Professional (SP2) and iTunes 4.9 (or later).
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Are you guys not seeing this thing? AMAZING
BLACK IPOD
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Creative patented the nano three years ago. You will all find out about it in 2009.
For the whiners:
the iPod nano’s price is completely justified, when you consider that your getting all three ipod models rolled into one:
1. the thickness of a shuffle
2. the capacity of a mini
3. the capabilities of a photo
I’m buying two..
NANO is on it’s way
I guess it’s time to start giving away my older iPods as gifts to relatives.
I got a second gen 20 GB, a B&W U2 in perfect condition, a 1GB iPod shuffle that’s just about worthless and a 3rd Gen B&W iPod which gets the most use.
The sec gen is a bit old and beatup, makes a good car iPod. So I guess the U2 and the shuffle are going.
That wraps up part of my holiday shopping.
It’s called the Zen Nano Plus (TM)
Apple’s is called the iPod nano (TM)
Should they have trademarked the individual words?
Nano is freakiin’ awesome!
Over here in the UK iPod mini prices are round about the same as the new nano prices for the same storage ithink, so for us its much much better value.
Apologies. Didn’t realise they pulled the mini. That sort of sucks. No little pink ones for the ladies ? I think that’s a marketing blunder to be honest … unless they make a packet in pink nanotubes.
But the size and the colour screen and the photo capability I think make up for the capacity to a large extent.
On the iPod page at the Apple store online, the icon for the regular ipods (halfway down, middle of page) show 30 and 60 GB, although above it lists the 20 and 60 GB. Did someone screw up and announce an upgrade to 30GB for the low end full size iPod?
I’m looking because this sealed my decision to go with a regular iPod since I don’t have USB2
USB 2.0 PCI cards sell for less than $15. But Flash memory is much slower than a hard drive, so this doesn’t look like it will be good for data storage.
Too bad the name sucks ass
Has anyone seen if it will sync using the camera connector? It doesn’t say anywhere on the page.
It does have the same dock and the same software I think.
Anyone?
to all the people who liked the mini and thought it was a better value: rejoice! in 2 seconds you will find droves of brand new minis for deeply slashed prices on tech vendor sites everywhere and of course, on ebay.
me, i will get this hotness. no moving parts? 14 hours of battery life? thinner than a number 2 pencil? color? photos?
it will be mine. oh yes!… it will be mine.
Nano Nano!!!
Where is the iPod flea???
They take 12 hours to dissolve in your stomach and play 1000 songs…
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Really beautiful design. Small size is great. They will sell a boatload of these.
HOWEVER THE FACT THAT IT IS USB ONLY REALLY SUCKS AND IS A MAJOR DRAWBACK.
I hope it will integrate with a card reader so you can download your camera to it. This is not yet clear.
I think with the lanyard headphones this is gonna be majorly like a fashion accessory. However, the screen will be hanging upside down. They should add the functionality to have the screen flip 180 when hanging down so it is right side up and you can display the artwork of what you are listening to. That would be too cool.
APPLE PLEASE ADD FIREWIRE CONNECTIVITY TO THIS ASAP!!!!!!! Asking Apple users to use something that is inferior but “good enough” smacks way too much of the Dark Side.
This just had to happen.
I mean, c’mon, the iPod started out as a fat little thing, and now look at it – it’s positively waif like. Fame and fortune does that to you I guess.
I sure hope the other MP3 players don’t go on binge diets. This nano thing is not good for their self esteem.
The Nano is tight! I am buying two also! Way to go Apple, nice job.
iPods are a trendy and expensive cry for approval.
iPods just help to dilute the quality of music even further. I enjoy listening to one CD at a time, knowing all of the tracks a band produces, not just the hits. Otherwise how can you really know what a band’s all about? Ipods just make music a technological commodity, something material which has no meaning except that it reflects your status. Long live real music and real music lovers.
Ward, don’t you think you were a bit hard on the Beaver last night?
Apple going USB only is their subtle way of getting you to upgrade your hardware so it has USB 2 (if you find the speed intolerable that is).
However, it’s a good move on their part since USB 1 has been included since the first iMac in 1998, and PC’s since then too – Firewire is much rarer on PCs.
Do not eat iPod nano.
(I’m sure someone else will inform iDon’t that it is possible to listen to complete albums, one at a time, on an iPod.)
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The iPod mini is still availible from the apple online store. You have to do a search for it.
MW: small.
For all the people that are saying NO FIREWIRE etc. whats to stop you putting the nano in a third part Firewire 800 dock and syncing it that way? It’s not supported by apple but it does work, why wouldn’t it work with this one? If it does BAD ASS finally got a use for my FW800 port on my PB
… “HOWEVER THE FACT THAT IT IS USB ONLY REALLY SUCKS AND IS A MAJOR DRAWBACK.”
… how many times a week to do you transfer your whole collection at once anyway?
You only do that one time at the beginning. USB 2 is good enough for that. You’d really want to pay more for Firewire support for that one time? Firewire is great but you don’t need it for every single thing.