iPod Nano 5th generation review

It’s been a while since we’ve seen any addition from Apple. As it was rumored and well-predicted 5G iPod nano turns out a hot new thing with lots of little wonders to amaze. So what’s so amazing about this new shiny babe? Let’s take for a starter a larger screen (which boasts now of additional 0.2″), a FM radio (what a surprise!), a pedometer, a speaker and, naturally, the main delight must be a video camera. The camera films live video skipping picture stills, however. It makes footage in VGA quality 640 x 480) H.264. As some reviewers claim, the quality surpasses iPhone 3GS. If you feel a rush for creativeness there is a number of special effects including B&W, Sepia, Film Grain, X-Ray, Security Cam, Cyborg, Bulge, Motion Blur, Bulge and so on and so forth. Thanks to the camcorder it became effortless now to switch between landscape and portrait modes. However the placing of lens makes it too accessible, so you’ll have to take some time for practicing to get used to it. Still, it remains quite weird that the 5G iPod nano is now the mid-range (and only) iPod with a camera meanwhile top-notch smartphone hasn’t got this feature.

The dimensions are twin to the 4G nano with 3.6- x 1.5- x 0.24-inches; however it somehow manages to lose its weight from 1.3 to 1.28 ounces. The battery is claimed to last up to 24 hours with playing audio.

The FM radio function Live Pause allows to tag the track you heard on the radio so that the next time you sync, iTunes finds it for you for making a purchase. Other flashy novelty is a pedometer that counts how many steps you’ve taken and how many calories you have burnt while walking.

Finally, the VoiceOver sounds the artist and the track name. Firstly this function appeared in iPod shuffle 3G and has migrated into iPhone and 5G iPod nano now.

With all these novelties introduced, there is much space left for further improvements, of course. But what we have now is something at least.

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