Thursday, February 1, 2007

The iPod Nano



* Apple's fourth digital audio player combining features of both the iPod shuffle and iPod.
* Introduced on September 7, 2005 replacing the iPod mini, which was discontinued on the same day.
* Pod nano's small size: it is 1.6 inches (40 mm) wide, 3.5 inches (90 mm) long, 0.27 inches (6.9 mm) thick and weighs 1.5 ounces (42 grams).
* Battery life is up to 14 hours.
* The screen is 176 x 132 pixels, 1.5 inches (38 mm) diagonal, and can display 65,536 colors
* Instead of the hard disk used in other iPods, the Nano uses a flash drive. With no moving parts besides the click wheel, the iPod nano is immune to skipping because of this change.
* The iPod nano works with iTunes on Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows
* Connection : using a USB 2.0 port on the user's computer.Charge its battery over FireWire, the iPod nano does not support synchronizing over a FireWire connection.
* The nano was launched in two colors (black or white) with two available sizes: 2 GB and 4 GB
* On February 7, 2006, Apple updated the lineup with the 1 GB model (240 songs) sold at US$149.
* The nano sold its first 1 million units in only 17 days, helping Apple to a record billion-dollar profit in 2005.