Apple iPod nano 8 GB Black
September 28, 2009
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Apple iPod Nano
One of the most exciting Apple mp3 player models introduced by Apple Company lately is the Ipod namo 8GB mp3 player, which is considered as the tiniest color iPod in the market today. This tiny Apple mp3 player could store up to 2,000 songs! This means that if you have the Apple iPod nano 8GB mp3 player, you can enjoy up to 24 hours of non-stop music wherever you are.
If you are traveling on the road on your own, you will never be bored with this Apple mp3 player around. The Apple ipod nano 8GB mp3 player is a state of the art gadget. It is USB and FireWire compatible so you can easily download music from your computer into this Apple mp3 player.
If you are one of those people who usually purchase music online, you can just download everything into your Ipod nano anytime. Aside from giving you very clear digital sound, this newest member of the Apple mp3 player family also gives you audiobooks, podcasts and built-in games.
If you are traveling long distance and would like to take a short break, you can just pull up at a rest stop and play some games in your Apple mp3 player.
Apple also introduced a Windows version of iPod, at a later stage.
Which audiofiles are supported
The audio files that iPod (mp3 / mp4 player) supports are MP3, AAC/M4A, Protected AAC, AIFF, WAV, Audible audiobook, and Apple Lossless audio file formats.
Slight Disadvantage: MIDI and WMA files can be played only after a convertor accomplishes conversion, for non-Digital Rights Management (DRM).
Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, and other open-source audio formats are not supported at all.
iPods interface
Apple wanted an extremely user friendly interface and thus adopted the minimalist interface, which features only five essential buttons, namely,
- Menu (to access functions and to toggle the backlight);
- Center (for menu item selection);
- Play/ Pause (this also works as an off switch when held for few seconds);
- Skip Forward/ Fast Forward;and
- Skip Backwards/ Fast Reverse.
An additional Hold button is provided for accidental button pressing prevention, and it can reset the iPod if it has frozen or crashed. Functions such as volume control, scrolling are handled by the usage of the rotational click wheel. Later models have some minor changes in the functions of the buttons but overall the number of buttons has remained at five.
Sidenote: Why is it named iPod?
To market this path-breaking mp3 / mp4 player, they needed a suitable futuristic name.Inspired by the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey and the dialogue “Open the pod bay door, Hal!” with reference to the context of the Discovery One spaceship and its white EVA Pods, a freelance copywriter proposed the name of the product as iPod.
The management of Apple accepted the proposed name and on 23 October 2001, the iPod was officially launched.
iTunes store
To enable customers to access songs of their choice, Apple opened up an online media store The iTunes Store on 29 April 2003, where individual songs could be downloaded at prices less than a U.S. dollar per song. The purchased songs can be played only on iPods.
iPods have come a long way from their inception, and now the latest fifth generation iPods possess multimedia capabilities and are available in both Mac OS and Windows OS versions.
From being a digital music player, the iPod has now transformed into a digital media player.
Features
- 8 GB capacity for 2,000 songs, 7,000 photos, or 8 hours of video
- Up to 24 hours of music playback or 4 hours of video playback when fully charged
- 2-inch LCD with blue-white LED backlight and 320-by-240-pixel resolution
- Supported audio formats: AAC, Protected AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible, Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV
- Supported video formats: H.264, MPEG-4; Supported image file types: JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, PSD (Mac only), and PNG
