| I had seen the adverts on TV on how small the nano | | | | put your nano into your pocket or bag and catches |
| was but it wasn't until I held one in my hands that I fully | | | | something metal. I had heard on the news there had |
| understood how small and how impressive these MP3 | | | | been issues with the early nanos , I still feel this could |
| players are. | | | | be an issue. |
| Weighing only 42grams and a mere 90m by 40m and | | | | The main control in the centre of the unit was more |
| only 6.9m thick (or thin) these little units are not going to | | | | touch sensitive than I expected, I use my thumb to |
| fill your suitcase when you go on holiday. Ideal for | | | | scroll the menu, but it wasn't long before it was easy |
| putting in your pocket, wallet or purse you can take | | | | as pie, if fact working really well with the gel case I had |
| them anywhere, except the pool of course as they | | | | bought to protect it. |
| are not waterproof. The small size does create | | | | The sound is excellent, I can't tell the difference |
| concerns for me with my children though. They can | | | | between CDs and MP3s and I often think those who |
| easily get lost if not looked after and outside of the | | | | say they can, can't either. You can download your |
| home could be easy prey to pickpockets or thieves so | | | | music from iTunes, a legal way of owning music. They |
| beware. | | | | are impressive boxed also where you open the box |
| They come in two colours white and black and two | | | | like a book and see your nano inside. However you do |
| memory sizes 2gb and 4gb, theses can hold 500 and | | | | not get any form of charging your nano except for the |
| 1000 songs respectively. For me this is more than | | | | computer leads that come with it. This means if you |
| enough songs but for those of you with large CD | | | | wish to take your nano away from your computer for |
| collections, who want to put their whole collection in | | | | a period of time you will need to buy a separate mains |
| one place, you may want to go for one the larger | | | | charger. Which of course is larger than the unit itself. |
| iPods. | | | | My final conclusion is that this little unit is a fantastic |
| The colour screen looks excellent and shows easy | | | | move forward in the music player industry. I was |
| navigation throughout, you can download your tunes | | | | impressed by the larger iPods that my friends had, but |
| into files, albums, types of music etc. My only concern | | | | it wasn't until the appearance of the nano that I was |
| with the screen was, I felt it may scratch easily and | | | | suitably impressed to put my hand in pocket to make |
| some of the cases that you can buy for the nano still | | | | a purchase. And I haven't been let down. |
| leave the screen exposed. My concern is when you | | | | |