• 16 GB capacity for 4000 songs 14000 photos or 16 hours of video


• Up to 24 hours of music playback or 5 hours of video playback when fully charged


• 2.2-inch color TFT display with 240 x 376 pixel resolution


• Supports AAC Protected AAC MP3 MP3 VBR Audible Apple Lossless AIFF and WAV audio formats; H.264 and MPEG-4 video formats


• One-year limited warranty with single incident of complimentary telephone technical support

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The iPod nano now has a built-in video camera that lets you spontaneously shoot video wherever you are. And that's just the beginning. It has a dramatic polished anodized aluminum finish and a larger screen. The new Genius Mixes feature acts as your personal DJ automatically searching your iTunes library then making mixes you'll love. Take iPod nano anywhere and the new Pedometer counts your steps. Also making its debut: a built-in FM radio with two amazing features--iTunes Tagging and Live Pause.

• Has 16 GB capacity for 4000 songs 14000 photos or 16 hours of video


• Up to 24 hours of music playback or 5 hours of video playback when fully charged


• Has 2.2-inch color TFT display with 240 x 376 pixel resolution


• Supports AAC Protected AAC MP3 MP3 VBR Audible


• One-year limited warranty with single incident of complimentary telephone technical support

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• 8 GB capacity for 2000 songs 7000 photos or 8 hours of video


• Up to 24 hours of music playback or 5 hours of video playback when fully charged


• 2.2-inch color TFT display with 240 x 376 pixel resolution


• Supports AAC Protected AAC MP3 MP3 VBR Audible Apple Lossless AIFF and WAV audio formats


• Supports H.264 and MPEG-4 video formats JPEG BMP GIF TIFF PSD (Mac only) and PNG image formats

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• 16 GB capacity for 4000 songs 14000 photos or 16 hours of video


• Up to 24 hours of music playback or 5 hours of video playback when fully charged


• 2.2-inch color TFT display with 240 x 376 pixel resolution


• Supports AAC Protected AAC MP3 MP3 VBR Audible Apple Lossless AIFF and WAV audio formats


• Supports H.264 and MPEG-4 video formats; JPEG BMP GIF TIFF PSD (Mac only) and PNG image formats

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• 8 GB capacity for 2000 songs 7000 photos or 8 hours of video


• Up to 24 hours of music playback or 5 hours of video playback when fully charged


• 2.2-inch color TFT display with 240 x 376 pixel resolution


• Supports AAC Protected AAC MP3 MP3 VBR Audible Apple Lossless AIFF and WAV audio formats


• One-year limited warranty with single incident of complimentary telephone technical support

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• 8 GB capacity for 2000 songs 7000 photos or 8 hours of video


• Up to 24 hours of music playback or 5 hours of video playback when fully charged


• 2.2-inch color TFT display with 240 x 376 pixel resolution


• Supports AAC Protected AAC MP3 MP3 VBR Audible Apple Lossless AIFF and WAV audio formats


• H.264 and MPEG-4 video formats; JPEG BMP GIF TIFF PSD (Mac only) and PNG image formats

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• 8 GB capacity for 2000 songs 7000 photos or 8 hours of video


• Up to 24 hours of music playback or 5 hours of video playback when fully charged


• 2.2-inch color TFT display with 240 x 376 pixel resolution


• Supports AAC Protected AAC MP3 MP3 VBR Audible Apple Lossless AIFF


• One-year limited warranty with single incident of complimentary telephone technical support

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• 8 GB capacity for 2000 songs 7000 photos or 8 hours of video


• Up to 24 hours of music playback or 5 hours of video playback when fully charged


• 2.2-inch color TFT display with 240 x 376 pixel resolution


• Supports AAC Protected AAC MP3 MP3 VBR Audible Apple Lossless AIFF and WAV audio formats


• One-year limited warranty with single incident of complimentary telephone technical support


• Supports H.264 and MPEG-4 video formats; JPEG BMP GIF TIFF PSD (Mac only) and PNG image formats

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The iPod nano now has a built-in video camera that lets you spontaneously shoot video wherever you are. And that's just the beginning. It has a dramatic polished anodized aluminum finish and a larger screen. The new Genius Mixes feature acts as your personal DJ automatically searching your iTunes library then making mixes you'll love. Take iPod nano anywhere and the new Pedometer counts your steps. Also making its debut: a built-in FM radio with two amazing features--iTunes Tagging and Live Pause. So the world's most popular music player now has more to play with.

FEATURES:

•  Video a-Go-Go - iPod nano now has a built-in video camera that lets you record fun as it happens. Then share it with friends on the Internet. It's the video camera that's small enough to take with you everywhere.
• Video Recording - A quick scroll through the menu takes you to the video camera. Then you're ready to record video in portrait or landscape--perfect for emailing or posting on Facebook or MobileMe. A built-in mic lets you capture audio too. And when you play back your video on iPod nano you'll hear the recorded audio with it. All of which means your indispensable music player is now your indispensable video camera.
  Special Effects Department Included - Fifteen fun video effects let you add a little Hollywood to your video. Just scroll through choose the effect you want--such as film grain or motion blur--and start recording. When you're done sync iPod nano to your computer and iPhoto (or your favorite photo software) opens. Then email your miniblockbuster or post on YouTube or Facebook.
• Sync Share and Put More You in YouTube - Connect iPod nano to your Mac and iPhoto opens and syncs all the video you shot on iPod nano to your computer. It's just as easy on a PC when you use your favorite photo software. On a Mac you can b

• 8 GB capacity for 2000 songs 7000 photos or 8 hours of video


• Up to 24 hours of music playback or 5 hours of video playback when fully charged


• 2.2-inch color TFT display with 240 x 376 pixel resolution


• Supports AAC Protected AAC MP3 MP3 VBR Audible Apple Lossless AIFF and WAV audio formats


• Supports H.264 and MPEG-4 video formats; JPEG BMP GIF TIFF PSD (Mac only) and PNG image formats

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Let's face it...we are not all clones and look for different features when it comes to an MP3 player. I wanted a small portable player for the gym. The FM Radio feature is what I have been hoping for for a very long time! I don't need apps. I don't need to surf the web. I need to play my tunes. Genius is a great way to create a mix for the gym. The fitness tracker is incredible. And finally I can tune in to the TVs in the gym. Love it! This is exactly what I've been waiting for. Perfect device for my needs.More detail ...

Awesome!

Let's face it...we are not all clones and look for different features when it comes to an MP3 player. I wanted a small portable player for the gym. The FM Radio feature is what I have been hoping for for a very long time! I don't need apps. I don't need to surf the web. I need to play my tunes. Genius is a great way to create a mix for the gym. The fitness tracker is incredible. And finally I can tune in to the TVs in the gym. Love it! This is exactly what I've been waiting for. Perfect device for my needs.More detail ...

Very cool handy and sleek new toy -- but don't throw away your Flip yet!!

Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3GCL7CCLCHZCY When Steve Jobs announced the newest generation iPod nano he suggested that with its new video capability the nano would easily compete with the Flip Video camcorder. While someday down the line this may be a serious contender in the pocket video camera market it's not there yet. I took some comparison footage with the iPod nano and the standard definition Flip Mino to show why. My point in all this is not to suggest that you go buy a Flip instead of an iPod nano but that you ask yourself what it is you really want. If you want to make videos you can upload to Youtube and you want them to look pretty decent and you don't care much about music or you already have an mp3 player I wouldn't buy this iPod just because now it has video. On the other hand having some video capability might be enough to give this the edge over most other music players; if games are more important to you than video though you'd be better off with an iPod touch.



One thing you'll notice in the footage where I shot the same things back to back with both camcorders is that where the Flip really shines is in low light. I shot the hamster moments at night in a room illuminated only by a lamp. Not only did the iPod nano take grainy video it also didn't do any kind of white balancing and the indoor lightbulb added an orange tint to the clip; I'm not sure exactly how the Flip is designed to address this (whether it automatically adjusts white balance or just has a better average setting) but the footage shows that it captured light correctly both outdoors and indoors. If you compare the hamster shots with the Flip and with the nano I think it's clear that for indoor and lowlight there's no comparison and the Flip has the nano beat hands down. The outdoor images are closer but I think even this small video shows greater detail in the Flip video. When you blow the images up bigger there's no comparison -- the Flip looks decent even on a big screen TV the iPod nano footage looks like it was shot with well a toy camera. In all fairness that's all it is at this point. (Note by the way that like the Flip the nano will only take video and doesn't take photos. You can manually add photos to the nano from your computer but you can't use the onboard camera to capture stills.)



Another thing that bugs me a bit about the new iPod nano is the bizarre placement of the camera lens. It's nestled down in the corner of the backside below the screen -- exactly where it is most natural to hold this thing if you are shooting with it. Even if you just grasp the thing at the corners there's a tendency for some part of a finger to accidentally edge into the camera frame. In fact I found that even after I was aware of this fact I kept doing it anyways -- the way this thing fits in my hands just makes it likely I'll catch an edge of a finger in my shots unless I'm conscientious about avoiding it and that detracts from the spontaneity this is designed to take advantage of. (I even noticed I'd done it on most of the iPod nano footage for this video comparison -- and I thought about doing it over but then decided to leave it in just to show how easily it can happen.)



So to sum up: what you really get with the iPod nano is a toy camera fun to have in the pocket and very cool to have just in case there's something you want to shoot but not quite the quality we've come to expect from the handy pocket camcorders like the Flip Mino and the Creative Vado and the Kodak Zi8 that keep getting better and better. Video is a nice new feature on the Nano but not really a radical innovation and not a game changer.



What makes the iPod Nano worth it is that in addition to video on the fly you get to listen to music you get an FM radio that works quite well and even tells you what song you are listening to you get a voice recorder (a VERY nice feature excellent for students who can listen to music on their way to class and then record a lecture) a decent quality mini speaker a somewhat useful pedometer decent game options for killing time. You don't get any of that with the Flip! Sure the new iPod nano is a toy ... but it's a very cool toy.



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Very cool handy and sleek new toy -- but don't throw away your Flip yet!!

Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3GCL7CCLCHZCY When Steve Jobs announced the newest generation iPod nano he suggested that with its new video capability the nano would easily compete with the Flip Video camcorder. While someday down the line this may be a serious contender in the pocket video camera market it's not there yet. I took some comparison footage with the iPod nano and the standard definition Flip Mino to show why. My point in all this is not to suggest that you go buy a Flip instead of an iPod nano but that you ask yourself what it is you really want. If you want to make videos you can upload to Youtube and you want them to look pretty decent and you don't care much about music or you already have an mp3 player I wouldn't buy this iPod just because now it has video. On the other hand having some video capability might be enough to give this the edge over most other music players; if games are more important to you than video though you'd be better off with an iPod touch.



One thing you'll notice in the footage where I shot the same things back to back with both camcorders is that where the Flip really shines is in low light. I shot the hamster moments at night in a room illuminated only by a lamp. Not only did the iPod nano take grainy video it also didn't do any kind of white balancing and the indoor lightbulb added an orange tint to the clip; I'm not sure exactly how the Flip is designed to address this (whether it automatically adjusts white balance or just has a better average setting) but the footage shows that it captured light correctly both outdoors and indoors. If you compare the hamster shots with the Flip and with the nano I think it's clear that for indoor and lowlight there's no comparison and the Flip has the nano beat hands down. The outdoor images are closer but I think even this small video shows greater detail in the Flip video. When you blow the images up bigger there's no comparison -- the Flip looks decent even on a big screen TV the iPod nano footage looks like it was shot with well a toy camera. In all fairness that's all it is at this point. (Note by the way that like the Flip the nano will only take video and doesn't take photos. You can manually add photos to the nano from your computer but you can't use the onboard camera to capture stills.)



Another thing that bugs me a bit about the new iPod nano is the bizarre placement of the camera lens. It's nestled down in the corner of the backside below the screen -- exactly where it is most natural to hold this thing if you are shooting with it. Even if you just grasp the thing at the corners there's a tendency for some part of a finger to accidentally edge into the camera frame. In fact I found that even after I was aware of this fact I kept doing it anyways -- the way this thing fits in my hands just makes it likely I'll catch an edge of a finger in my shots unless I'm conscientious about avoiding it and that detracts from the spontaneity this is designed to take advantage of. (I even noticed I'd done it on most of the iPod nano footage for this video comparison -- and I thought about doing it over but then decided to leave it in just to show how easily it can happen.)



So to sum up: what you really get with the iPod nano is a toy camera fun to have in the pocket and very cool to have just in case there's something you want to shoot but not quite the quality we've come to expect from the handy pocket camcorders like the Flip Mino and the Creative Vado and the Kodak Zi8 that keep getting better and better. Video is a nice new feature on the Nano but not really a radical innovation and not a game changer.



What makes the iPod Nano worth it is that in addition to video on the fly you get to listen to music you get an FM radio that works quite well and even tells you what song you are listening to you get a voice recorder (a VERY nice feature excellent for students who can listen to music on their way to class and then record a lecture) a decent quality mini speaker a somewhat useful pedometer decent game options for killing time. You don't get any of that with the Flip! Sure the new iPod nano is a toy ... but it's a very cool toy.



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Very cool handy and sleek new toy -- but don't throw away your Flip yet!!

Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3GCL7CCLCHZCY When Steve Jobs announced the newest generation iPod nano he suggested that with its new video capability the nano would easily compete with the Flip Video camcorder. While someday down the line this may be a serious contender in the pocket video camera market it's not there yet. I took some comparison footage with the iPod nano and the standard definition Flip Mino to show why. My point in all this is not to suggest that you go buy a Flip instead of an iPod nano but that you ask yourself what it is you really want. If you want to make videos you can upload to Youtube and you want them to look pretty decent and you don't care much about music or you already have an mp3 player I wouldn't buy this iPod just because now it has video. On the other hand having some video capability might be enough to give this the edge over most other music players; if games are more important to you than video though you'd be better off with an iPod touch.



One thing you'll notice in the footage where I shot the same things back to back with both camcorders is that where the Flip really shines is in low light. I shot the hamster moments at night in a room illuminated only by a lamp. Not only did the iPod nano take grainy video it also didn't do any kind of white balancing and the indoor lightbulb added an orange tint to the clip; I'm not sure exactly how the Flip is designed to address this (whether it automatically adjusts white balance or just has a better average setting) but the footage shows that it captured light correctly both outdoors and indoors. If you compare the hamster shots with the Flip and with the nano I think it's clear that for indoor and lowlight there's no comparison and the Flip has the nano beat hands down. The outdoor images are closer but I think even this small video shows greater detail in the Flip video. When you blow the images up bigger there's no comparison -- the Flip looks decent even on a big screen TV the iPod nano footage looks like it was shot with well a toy camera. In all fairness that's all it is at this point. (Note by the way that like the Flip the nano will only take video and doesn't take photos. You can manually add photos to the nano from your computer but you can't use the onboard camera to capture stills.)



Another thing that bugs me a bit about the new iPod nano is the bizarre placement of the camera lens. It's nestled down in the corner of the backside below the screen -- exactly where it is most natural to hold this thing if you are shooting with it. Even if you just grasp the thing at the corners there's a tendency for some part of a finger to accidentally edge into the camera frame. In fact I found that even after I was aware of this fact I kept doing it anyways -- the way this thing fits in my hands just makes it likely I'll catch an edge of a finger in my shots unless I'm conscientious about avoiding it and that detracts from the spontaneity this is designed to take advantage of. (I even noticed I'd done it on most of the iPod nano footage for this video comparison -- and I thought about doing it over but then decided to leave it in just to show how easily it can happen.)



So to sum up: what you really get with the iPod nano is a toy camera fun to have in the pocket and very cool to have just in case there's something you want to shoot but not quite the quality we've come to expect from the handy pocket camcorders like the Flip Mino and the Creative Vado and the Kodak Zi8 that keep getting better and better. Video is a nice new feature on the Nano but not really a radical innovation and not a game changer.



What makes the iPod Nano worth it is that in addition to video on the fly you get to listen to music you get an FM radio that works quite well and even tells you what song you are listening to you get a voice recorder (a VERY nice feature excellent for students who can listen to music on their way to class and then record a lecture) a decent quality mini speaker a somewhat useful pedometer decent game options for killing time. You don't get any of that with the Flip! Sure the new iPod nano is a toy ... but it's a very cool toy.



More detail ...

Very cool handy and sleek new toy -- but don't throw away your Flip yet!!

Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3GCL7CCLCHZCY When Steve Jobs announced the newest generation iPod nano he suggested that with its new video capability the nano would easily compete with the Flip Video camcorder. While someday down the line this may be a serious contender in the pocket video camera market it's not there yet. I took some comparison footage with the iPod nano and the standard definition Flip Mino to show why. My point in all this is not to suggest that you go buy a Flip instead of an iPod nano but that you ask yourself what it is you really want. If you want to make videos you can upload to Youtube and you want them to look pretty decent and you don't care much about music or you already have an mp3 player I wouldn't buy this iPod just because now it has video. On the other hand having some video capability might be enough to give this the edge over most other music players; if games are more important to you than video though you'd be better off with an iPod touch.



One thing you'll notice in the footage where I shot the same things back to back with both camcorders is that where the Flip really shines is in low light. I shot the hamster moments at night in a room illuminated only by a lamp. Not only did the iPod nano take grainy video it also didn't do any kind of white balancing and the indoor lightbulb added an orange tint to the clip; I'm not sure exactly how the Flip is designed to address this (whether it automatically adjusts white balance or just has a better average setting) but the footage shows that it captured light correctly both outdoors and indoors. If you compare the hamster shots with the Flip and with the nano I think it's clear that for indoor and lowlight there's no comparison and the Flip has the nano beat hands down. The outdoor images are closer but I think even this small video shows greater detail in the Flip video. When you blow the images up bigger there's no comparison -- the Flip looks decent even on a big screen TV the iPod nano footage looks like it was shot with well a toy camera. In all fairness that's all it is at this point. (Note by the way that like the Flip the nano will only take video and doesn't take photos. You can manually add photos to the nano from your computer but you can't use the onboard camera to capture stills.)



Another thing that bugs me a bit about the new iPod nano is the bizarre placement of the camera lens. It's nestled down in the corner of the backside below the screen -- exactly where it is most natural to hold this thing if you are shooting with it. Even if you just grasp the thing at the corners there's a tendency for some part of a finger to accidentally edge into the camera frame. In fact I found that even after I was aware of this fact I kept doing it anyways -- the way this thing fits in my hands just makes it likely I'll catch an edge of a finger in my shots unless I'm conscientious about avoiding it and that detracts from the spontaneity this is designed to take advantage of. (I even noticed I'd done it on most of the iPod nano footage for this video comparison -- and I thought about doing it over but then decided to leave it in just to show how easily it can happen.)



So to sum up: what you really get with the iPod nano is a toy camera fun to have in the pocket and very cool to have just in case there's something you want to shoot but not quite the quality we've come to expect from the handy pocket camcorders like the Flip Mino and the Creative Vado and the Kodak Zi8 that keep getting better and better. Video is a nice new feature on the Nano but not really a radical innovation and not a game changer.



What makes the iPod Nano worth it is that in addition to video on the fly you get to listen to music you get an FM radio that works quite well and even tells you what song you are listening to you get a voice recorder (a VERY nice feature excellent for students who can listen to music on their way to class and then record a lecture) a decent quality mini speaker a somewhat useful pedometer decent game options for killing time. You don't get any of that with the Flip! Sure the new iPod nano is a toy ... but it's a very cool toy.



More detail ...

Very cool handy and sleek new toy -- but don't throw away your Flip yet!!

Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3GCL7CCLCHZCY When Steve Jobs announced the newest generation iPod nano he suggested that with its new video capability the nano would easily compete with the Flip Video camcorder. While someday down the line this may be a serious contender in the pocket video camera market it's not there yet. I took some comparison footage with the iPod nano and the standard definition Flip Mino to show why. My point in all this is not to suggest that you go buy a Flip instead of an iPod nano but that you ask yourself what it is you really want. If you want to make videos you can upload to Youtube and you want them to look pretty decent and you don't care much about music or you already have an mp3 player I wouldn't buy this iPod just because now it has video. On the other hand having some video capability might be enough to give this the edge over most other music players; if games are more important to you than video though you'd be better off with an iPod touch.



One thing you'll notice in the footage where I shot the same things back to back with both camcorders is that where the Flip really shines is in low light. I shot the hamster moments at night in a room illuminated only by a lamp. Not only did the iPod nano take grainy video it also didn't do any kind of white balancing and the indoor lightbulb added an orange tint to the clip; I'm not sure exactly how the Flip is designed to address this (whether it automatically adjusts white balance or just has a better average setting) but the footage shows that it captured light correctly both outdoors and indoors. If you compare the hamster shots with the Flip and with the nano I think it's clear that for indoor and lowlight there's no comparison and the Flip has the nano beat hands down. The outdoor images are closer but I think even this small video shows greater detail in the Flip video. When you blow the images up bigger there's no comparison -- the Flip looks decent even on a big screen TV the iPod nano footage looks like it was shot with well a toy camera. In all fairness that's all it is at this point. (Note by the way that like the Flip the nano will only take video and doesn't take photos. You can manually add photos to the nano from your computer but you can't use the onboard camera to capture stills.)



Another thing that bugs me a bit about the new iPod nano is the bizarre placement of the camera lens. It's nestled down in the corner of the backside below the screen -- exactly where it is most natural to hold this thing if you are shooting with it. Even if you just grasp the thing at the corners there's a tendency for some part of a finger to accidentally edge into the camera frame. In fact I found that even after I was aware of this fact I kept doing it anyways -- the way this thing fits in my hands just makes it likely I'll catch an edge of a finger in my shots unless I'm conscientious about avoiding it and that detracts from the spontaneity this is designed to take advantage of. (I even noticed I'd done it on most of the iPod nano footage for this video comparison -- and I thought about doing it over but then decided to leave it in just to show how easily it can happen.)



So to sum up: what you really get with the iPod nano is a toy camera fun to have in the pocket and very cool to have just in case there's something you want to shoot but not quite the quality we've come to expect from the handy pocket camcorders like the Flip Mino and the Creative Vado and the Kodak Zi8 that keep getting better and better. Video is a nice new feature on the Nano but not really a radical innovation and not a game changer.



What makes the iPod Nano worth it is that in addition to video on the fly you get to listen to music you get an FM radio that works quite well and even tells you what song you are listening to you get a voice recorder (a VERY nice feature excellent for students who can listen to music on their way to class and then record a lecture) a decent quality mini speaker a somewhat useful pedometer decent game options for killing time. You don't get any of that with the Flip! Sure the new iPod nano is a toy ... but it's a very cool toy.



More detail ...

Very cool handy and sleek new toy -- but don't throw away your Flip yet!!

Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3GCL7CCLCHZCY When Steve Jobs announced the newest generation iPod nano he suggested that with its new video capability the nano would easily compete with the Flip Video camcorder. While someday down the line this may be a serious contender in the pocket video camera market it's not there yet. I took some comparison footage with the iPod nano and the standard definition Flip Mino to show why. My point in all this is not to suggest that you go buy a Flip instead of an iPod nano but that you ask yourself what it is you really want. If you want to make videos you can upload to Youtube and you want them to look pretty decent and you don't care much about music or you already have an mp3 player I wouldn't buy this iPod just because now it has video. On the other hand having some video capability might be enough to give this the edge over most other music players; if games are more important to you than video though you'd be better off with an iPod touch.



One thing you'll notice in the footage where I shot the same things back to back with both camcorders is that where the Flip really shines is in low light. I shot the hamster moments at night in a room illuminated only by a lamp. Not only did the iPod nano take grainy video it also didn't do any kind of white balancing and the indoor lightbulb added an orange tint to the clip; I'm not sure exactly how the Flip is designed to address this (whether it automatically adjusts white balance or just has a better average setting) but the footage shows that it captured light correctly both outdoors and indoors. If you compare the hamster shots with the Flip and with the nano I think it's clear that for indoor and lowlight there's no comparison and the Flip has the nano beat hands down. The outdoor images are closer but I think even this small video shows greater detail in the Flip video. When you blow the images up bigger there's no comparison -- the Flip looks decent even on a big screen TV the iPod nano footage looks like it was shot with well a toy camera. In all fairness that's all it is at this point. (Note by the way that like the Flip the nano will only take video and doesn't take photos. You can manually add photos to the nano from your computer but you can't use the onboard camera to capture stills.)



Another thing that bugs me a bit about the new iPod nano is the bizarre placement of the camera lens. It's nestled down in the corner of the backside below the screen -- exactly where it is most natural to hold this thing if you are shooting with it. Even if you just grasp the thing at the corners there's a tendency for some part of a finger to accidentally edge into the camera frame. In fact I found that even after I was aware of this fact I kept doing it anyways -- the way this thing fits in my hands just makes it likely I'll catch an edge of a finger in my shots unless I'm conscientious about avoiding it and that detracts from the spontaneity this is designed to take advantage of. (I even noticed I'd done it on most of the iPod nano footage for this video comparison -- and I thought about doing it over but then decided to leave it in just to show how easily it can happen.)



So to sum up: what you really get with the iPod nano is a toy camera fun to have in the pocket and very cool to have just in case there's something you want to shoot but not quite the quality we've come to expect from the handy pocket camcorders like the Flip Mino and the Creative Vado and the Kodak Zi8 that keep getting better and better. Video is a nice new feature on the Nano but not really a radical innovation and not a game changer.



What makes the iPod Nano worth it is that in addition to video on the fly you get to listen to music you get an FM radio that works quite well and even tells you what song you are listening to you get a voice recorder (a VERY nice feature excellent for students who can listen to music on their way to class and then record a lecture) a decent quality mini speaker a somewhat useful pedometer decent game options for killing time. You don't get any of that with the Flip! Sure the new iPod nano is a toy ... but it's a very cool toy.



More detail ...

Very cool handy and sleek new toy -- but don't throw away your Flip yet!!

Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3GCL7CCLCHZCY When Steve Jobs announced the newest generation iPod nano he suggested that with its new video capability the nano would easily compete with the Flip Video camcorder. While someday down the line this may be a serious contender in the pocket video camera market it's not there yet. I took some comparison footage with the iPod nano and the standard definition Flip Mino to show why. My point in all this is not to suggest that you go buy a Flip instead of an iPod nano but that you ask yourself what it is you really want. If you want to make videos you can upload to Youtube and you want them to look pretty decent and you don't care much about music or you already have an mp3 player I wouldn't buy this iPod just because now it has video. On the other hand having some video capability might be enough to give this the edge over most other music players; if games are more important to you than video though you'd be better off with an iPod touch.



One thing you'll notice in the footage where I shot the same things back to back with both camcorders is that where the Flip really shines is in low light. I shot the hamster moments at night in a room illuminated only by a lamp. Not only did the iPod nano take grainy video it also didn't do any kind of white balancing and the indoor lightbulb added an orange tint to the clip; I'm not sure exactly how the Flip is designed to address this (whether it automatically adjusts white balance or just has a better average setting) but the footage shows that it captured light correctly both outdoors and indoors. If you compare the hamster shots with the Flip and with the nano I think it's clear that for indoor and lowlight there's no comparison and the Flip has the nano beat hands down. The outdoor images are closer but I think even this small video shows greater detail in the Flip video. When you blow the images up bigger there's no comparison -- the Flip looks decent even on a big screen TV the iPod nano footage looks like it was shot with well a toy camera. In all fairness that's all it is at this point. (Note by the way that like the Flip the nano will only take video and doesn't take photos. You can manually add photos to the nano from your computer but you can't use the onboard camera to capture stills.)



Another thing that bugs me a bit about the new iPod nano is the bizarre placement of the camera lens. It's nestled down in the corner of the backside below the screen -- exactly where it is most natural to hold this thing if you are shooting with it. Even if you just grasp the thing at the corners there's a tendency for some part of a finger to accidentally edge into the camera frame. In fact I found that even after I was aware of this fact I kept doing it anyways -- the way this thing fits in my hands just makes it likely I'll catch an edge of a finger in my shots unless I'm conscientious about avoiding it and that detracts from the spontaneity this is designed to take advantage of. (I even noticed I'd done it on most of the iPod nano footage for this video comparison -- and I thought about doing it over but then decided to leave it in just to show how easily it can happen.)



So to sum up: what you really get with the iPod nano is a toy camera fun to have in the pocket and very cool to have just in case there's something you want to shoot but not quite the quality we've come to expect from the handy pocket camcorders like the Flip Mino and the Creative Vado and the Kodak Zi8 that keep getting better and better. Video is a nice new feature on the Nano but not really a radical innovation and not a game changer.



What makes the iPod Nano worth it is that in addition to video on the fly you get to listen to music you get an FM radio that works quite well and even tells you what song you are listening to you get a voice recorder (a VERY nice feature excellent for students who can listen to music on their way to class and then record a lecture) a decent quality mini speaker a somewhat useful pedometer decent game options for killing time. You don't get any of that with the Flip! Sure the new iPod nano is a toy ... but it's a very cool toy.



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Very cool handy and sleek new toy -- but don't throw away your Flip yet!!

Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3GCL7CCLCHZCY When Steve Jobs announced the newest generation iPod nano he suggested that with its new video capability the nano would easily compete with the Flip Video camcorder. While someday down the line this may be a serious contender in the pocket video camera market it's not there yet. I took some comparison footage with the iPod nano and the standard definition Flip Mino to show why. My point in all this is not to suggest that you go buy a Flip instead of an iPod nano but that you ask yourself what it is you really want. If you want to make videos you can upload to Youtube and you want them to look pretty decent and you don't care much about music or you already have an mp3 player I wouldn't buy this iPod just because now it has video. On the other hand having some video capability might be enough to give this the edge over most other music players; if games are more important to you than video though you'd be better off with an iPod touch.



One thing you'll notice in the footage where I shot the same things back to back with both camcorders is that where the Flip really shines is in low light. I shot the hamster moments at night in a room illuminated only by a lamp. Not only did the iPod nano take grainy video it also didn't do any kind of white balancing and the indoor lightbulb added an orange tint to the clip; I'm not sure exactly how the Flip is designed to address this (whether it automatically adjusts white balance or just has a better average setting) but the footage shows that it captured light correctly both outdoors and indoors. If you compare the hamster shots with the Flip and with the nano I think it's clear that for indoor and lowlight there's no comparison and the Flip has the nano beat hands down. The outdoor images are closer but I think even this small video shows greater detail in the Flip video. When you blow the images up bigger there's no comparison -- the Flip looks decent even on a big screen TV the iPod nano footage looks like it was shot with well a toy camera. In all fairness that's all it is at this point. (Note by the way that like the Flip the nano will only take video and doesn't take photos. You can manually add photos to the nano from your computer but you can't use the onboard camera to capture stills.)



Another thing that bugs me a bit about the new iPod nano is the bizarre placement of the camera lens. It's nestled down in the corner of the backside below the screen -- exactly where it is most natural to hold this thing if you are shooting with it. Even if you just grasp the thing at the corners there's a tendency for some part of a finger to accidentally edge into the camera frame. In fact I found that even after I was aware of this fact I kept doing it anyways -- the way this thing fits in my hands just makes it likely I'll catch an edge of a finger in my shots unless I'm conscientious about avoiding it and that detracts from the spontaneity this is designed to take advantage of. (I even noticed I'd done it on most of the iPod nano footage for this video comparison -- and I thought about doing it over but then decided to leave it in just to show how easily it can happen.)



So to sum up: what you really get with the iPod nano is a toy camera fun to have in the pocket and very cool to have just in case there's something you want to shoot but not quite the quality we've come to expect from the handy pocket camcorders like the Flip Mino and the Creative Vado and the Kodak Zi8 that keep getting better and better. Video is a nice new feature on the Nano but not really a radical innovation and not a game changer.



What makes the iPod Nano worth it is that in addition to video on the fly you get to listen to music you get an FM radio that works quite well and even tells you what song you are listening to you get a voice recorder (a VERY nice feature excellent for students who can listen to music on their way to class and then record a lecture) a decent quality mini speaker a somewhat useful pedometer decent game options for killing time. You don't get any of that with the Flip! Sure the new iPod nano is a toy ... but it's a very cool toy.



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Very cool handy and sleek new toy -- but don't throw away your Flip yet!!

Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3GCL7CCLCHZCY When Steve Jobs announced the newest generation iPod nano he suggested that with its new video capability the nano would easily compete with the Flip Video camcorder. While someday down the line this may be a serious contender in the pocket video camera market it's not there yet. I took some comparison footage with the iPod nano and the standard definition Flip Mino to show why. My point in all this is not to suggest that you go buy a Flip instead of an iPod nano but that you ask yourself what it is you really want. If you want to make videos you can upload to Youtube and you want them to look pretty decent and you don't care much about music or you already have an mp3 player I wouldn't buy this iPod just because now it has video. On the other hand having some video capability might be enough to give this the edge over most other music players; if games are more important to you than video though you'd be better off with an iPod touch.



One thing you'll notice in the footage where I shot the same things back to back with both camcorders is that where the Flip really shines is in low light. I shot the hamster moments at night in a room illuminated only by a lamp. Not only did the iPod nano take grainy video it also didn't do any kind of white balancing and the indoor lightbulb added an orange tint to the clip; I'm not sure exactly how the Flip is designed to address this (whether it automatically adjusts white balance or just has a better average setting) but the footage shows that it captured light correctly both outdoors and indoors. If you compare the hamster shots with the Flip and with the nano I think it's clear that for indoor and lowlight there's no comparison and the Flip has the nano beat hands down. The outdoor images are closer but I think even this small video shows greater detail in the Flip video. When you blow the images up bigger there's no comparison -- the Flip looks decent even on a big screen TV the iPod nano footage looks like it was shot with well a toy camera. In all fairness that's all it is at this point. (Note by the way that like the Flip the nano will only take video and doesn't take photos. You can manually add photos to the nano from your computer but you can't use the onboard camera to capture stills.)



Another thing that bugs me a bit about the new iPod nano is the bizarre placement of the camera lens. It's nestled down in the corner of the backside below the screen -- exactly where it is most natural to hold this thing if you are shooting with it. Even if you just grasp the thing at the corners there's a tendency for some part of a finger to accidentally edge into the camera frame. In fact I found that even after I was aware of this fact I kept doing it anyways -- the way this thing fits in my hands just makes it likely I'll catch an edge of a finger in my shots unless I'm conscientious about avoiding it and that detracts from the spontaneity this is designed to take advantage of. (I even noticed I'd done it on most of the iPod nano footage for this video comparison -- and I thought about doing it over but then decided to leave it in just to show how easily it can happen.)



So to sum up: what you really get with the iPod nano is a toy camera fun to have in the pocket and very cool to have just in case there's something you want to shoot but not quite the quality we've come to expect from the handy pocket camcorders like the Flip Mino and the Creative Vado and the Kodak Zi8 that keep getting better and better. Video is a nice new feature on the Nano but not really a radical innovation and not a game changer.



What makes the iPod Nano worth it is that in addition to video on the fly you get to listen to music you get an FM radio that works quite well and even tells you what song you are listening to you get a voice recorder (a VERY nice feature excellent for students who can listen to music on their way to class and then record a lecture) a decent quality mini speaker a somewhat useful pedometer decent game options for killing time. You don't get any of that with the Flip! Sure the new iPod nano is a toy ... but it's a very cool toy.



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