“While Apple’s updated fifth-gen video iPods are not as widely available as expected, the new second-gen iPod nanos began arriving in the United States in somewhat limited quantities on Wednesday,” AppleInsider reports.
“Each new nano ships in a completely translucent, hard plastic container that elegantly showcases the player while neatly tucking away the few accessories it includes,” AppleInsider reports. “Along with the iPod, Apple packs a pair of headphones, an accessory adapter, USB cable and iPod nano Quick Start booklet. The player no longer ships with a protective sleve.”
“Although the new nano is precisely the same height and width of its predecessor, Apple has conveniently (for its margins) offset the dock connector by about a millimeter, making the new nano completely incompatible with the first-generation iPod nano dock,” AppleInsider reports.
“Similarly, users will also have to plunk down extra change for a new pair of iPod nano lanyard head phones — the new nano’s headphone jack is spaced further away from the dock connector,” AppleInsider reports.
AppleInsider has many very nice close-up unboxing photos here.
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Apple intros new iPod nano with new aluminum design in five colors and 24-hour battery life – September 12, 2006
I don’t like the looks of the new Nano too much really. Too much Mini-like for my taste.
Yeah, God forbid Apple should bring back their most popular design…
Re: Miserable Apple Store experience
I am absolutely dumbfounded. If I were there and had been in the right mood, I would have…
1) Opened up the iTMS on the internet-connected Macs right in the store and shown that idiot that the price hadn’t changed.
2) Reported the incident to a manager.
You expect crap like this from Best Buy and CompUSA. Not from Apple’s own employees.
FACT: People like colours.
FACT: Different people like different colours in different situations.
FACT: The new metallic finish of the nanos will be far more durable than to the old plastic, resulting in far fewer complaints.
me:
I do appreciate your meticulousness. “not me” is a hopelessly dim-witted individual who probably plagiarized the majority of his/her papers because he/she was too unimaginative and too unintelligent to develop an originally perspicacious thought.
like the other Nano design much better– the Mini design just looks cheezy to me