The iPod nano is Apple's fourth digital audio player combining functions of the 2 the iPod shuffle and iPod. It became announced on September 7, 2005, changing the iPod mini, which became discontinued on a same day. The replacement of the mini took Macintosh internet pages and the press positively by shock since, with out reference to the incontrovertible truth that there have been rumors essentially a new flash reminiscence-located much regularly iPod, there has been no prior word of the mini being discontinued.
Work on building of the hot layout of the iPod nano started much victorious 9 months ahead of the launch date. The iPod nano has greater flash reminiscence garage than is used within the iPod shuffle and has a miniaturized variation of the shade screen and click on on wheel stumbled on on your complete-sized iPods. The screen also has a greater bodily robust decision than the classic grayscale iPod, allowing yet an extra line of text than the mini's screen. The battery and other within of foods had been also shrunk. The surface of the press on wheel is a little powerful, allowing greater marvelous tactile criticism for out-of-sight operation.
Overview
Size comparability of iPod nano and extraordinary-sized mouse.Advertising emphasizes the iPod nano's small length: it with out doubt is 1.6 inches (40 mm) intensive, three.five inches (ninety mm) long, 0.27 inches (6.9 mm) thick and weighs 1.five oz. (42 grams). Its neatly-liked battery existence is 14 hours. The screen is 176 x 132 pixels, 1.five inches (38 mm) diagonal, and can disclose 65,536 sunglasses (sixteen-bit shade).
The iPod nano works with iTunes on Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows (3rd-birthday social gathering application is obtainable for structures that Apple would not reinforce). It connects thru a same proprietary dock connector for the cause that the 3rd-generation iPod, the fourth-generation iPod, and the iPod mini, the use of a USB 2.0 port on the consumer's great computer. Although it uses a same connection of Apple's FireWire iPod Cable and can commission its battery over FireWire, the iPod nano would not reinforce synchronizing over a FireWire connection. The iPod nano encompasses a cease watch and a a major number of time zone clock functionality. There is much regularly a blend lock characteristic that makes use of the press on wheel to fasten the iPod, and serves to comfy the consumer's calendar and phone info. It became also the 1st iPod to consist of a new lyrics screen, modifiable the use of iTunes.
The nano became released in two sunglasses (black or white) with two obtainable sizes: 2 GB (roughly 500 songs) for $199 USD and 4 GB (1000 songs) for $249 USD. On February 7, 2006, Apple up-to-date the lineup with the 1 GB model (240 songs) offered at $149. Apple also revealed some add-ons, inclusive of armbands and silicone "tubes" designed to furnish shade to the nano and offer security to it from scratches, as neatly as a blend lanyard-earphone accent that hangs across the neck, and avoids the topic of tangling earphone cords.
The iPod nano uses flash reminiscence in its space of a exhausting disk. As a outcome, it has no relocating foods, making it proof against skipping and many greater long lasting than disk-located much regularly avid players. The tradeoff is, like with all flash reminiscence, it has a finite stove of examine/write cycles. Testing by expertise-fanatic internet web site Ars Technica has shown that even after being driven over twice by a motor automobile, the unit's screen became damaged nonetheless that or not it's miles going to nonetheless play music. The unit in due course stopped taking section in music after being thrown 40 feet into the air.
Although the iPod nano premiums greater than the iPod mini style it changed, or not it's miles going to neatly be neatly-recognised that the iPod nanos are priced precisely a same for the cause that the iPod minis (2 + 4GB) had been when they had been first released to get back in 2004. Unlike preceding iPods, Apple is in straight forward phrases not featuring an optional FireWire cable for the iPod nano (nor the fifth-generation iPod). The loss of the faraway connector stumbled on on the utmost worthy of the iPod mini and Generations three and 4 of the iPod intended that a bunch of 3rd-birthday social gathering add-ons cannot paintings with the iPod nano. However, since the eliminating of the faraway connector from the stove one iPod line to the transfer of the Universal Dock connector, brands have been compelled to grow options to feature-ons that used it. The nano also lacks the TV-out and voice recording options of the enormous iPods. Apple has also said that, in contrast to other iPods in a location to storing snap pictures, the iPod nano cannot paintings with either Apple's iPod Camera Connector or any digicam connectors from 3rd-birthday social gathering brands.
Nike+iPod, revealed May 23, 2006, is attainable indubitably most of the very important many add-ons designed pretty for the iPod nano. The advantages of the Nike+iPod is to sync info inclusive of the gap traveled, operating tempo, or burned calories to the Nike+ internet web site.
Electronics
The iPod nano uses extraordinary-intention integrated circuits (IC) in its space of smaller, economical custom constructed chips, possibly to within the low cost of time-to-marketplace. This layout, nonetheless it with out doubt, raises the stove of digital foods and raises the check. Japanese engineers predicted the topic check of the 2 GB nano as among JPY22000 and JPY27000, which is immoderate when in comparability with the retail price of JPY21800. The check of two GB NAND flash reminiscence is style of JPY14000. Apple opted for the greater check 0603 (0.6 x 0.3mm) foods, the refined surface mount expertise, in choice to inexpensive nonetheless enormous 1005 (1.0 x 0.5mm) foods. In truth, there retains to be obtainable actual property on the motherboard.
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