15 things you didn’t know about Apple’s new iPod touch, nano, shuffle, and classic

“As we prepare our comprehensive reviews of new iPod models, we wanted to share some early discoveries with you, covering all four of the new 2009 iPod models,” Jeremy Horwitz writes for iLounge.

Here are a few snippets about the iPod nano to whet your appetite:

• One underpublicized difference between the fifth-generation nano and its predecessors is screen technology. Apple has changed its specs page to reflect the use of thin-film transistor screen technology.
• The fifth-generation nano is compatible with games released for the prior two generations of iPod nano; games display on its wider screen with black letterbox-style bars, rather than rescaling.
• Twelve lines of standard menu text can now fit on the iPod nano’s screen rather than ten.

Much more in the full article here.