When Apple introduced the 4th generation of the IPod Nano it announced exciting new features and a return of an old favourite.
The latest Nano 4G left the shorter , wider chunkier looks of the 3G behind and made a return to the taller, slimmer version of earlier models in the IPod Nano family. However this Apple IPod is not just slim, but, manages to be the slimmest IPod that Apple has ever produced, but, do not think taller and slimmer means less screen size because the 4G matches the much shorter, wider “ fat” 3G Nano IPod in the screen size department. Apple has changed the orientation from the horizontal layout of earlier versions to a vertical orientation for this IPod, so as not lose size.
By adding an accelerometer to their IPod Nano, Apple have made it possible to view video content (which favours a widescreen format) and landscape photographs horizontally, simply by rotating your Nano by 90 degrees.
Proving that the old adage of less being more to be perfectly correct because the two versions of this IPod Nano can hold double the capacity of the earlier 3G versions. That amounts to 2000 songs in the 8G version and an astounding 4000 in its large, 16G sibling or if you are a photograph junkie, then 8,000 or 16,000 pictures, respectively.
Apple have expanded the colour options of this IPod Nano with the addition of pink, orange, yellow and purple (3G Nano offered black, blue, silver, red and green), and not just more colours, but, the colours are more vibrant and should contain, practically everyone’s favourite colour.
Another exciting feature of the new Apple IPod Nano is shake to shuffle, which requires users to shake their Nano vigorously to cause the shuffle mode to activate, which causes your Nano to randomly select music from your library.
With new features that include the Spoken Word (enabled through iTunes), which allows visually impaired users the opportunity to have text (such as artists name or song title) converted into speech, thus, dispensing with the need to see the IPod screen, and the Genius feature, which organises a playlist of suitably like minded songs, by comparing the song you are currently listening to and comparing it with similar songs within your Nano IPod.
