New ipods have landed
As the leaked images showed a brand spanking new ipod nano was announced today, going back to the lollipop design with a larger screen perfect for video playback. But much to every ones surprise an accelerometer is now included which means tilting joy for all ipod nano owners it also means that there is a niffty (if not wholly original) touch which means you can shake the nano to shuffle the tunes. I was more than a little impressed.
The poor Original ipod just had its smaller version cut and now there is only one version of the original for people to buy, give it a year then its gone. As for the touch, very little done here too. Slightly thinner and inline volume control for quicker volume control. The garish ariel on the back has been shrunk down to a much nicer size and Nike+ has been intergrated as well.
The other big announcement is a new function to iTunes which goes by the name ‘Genius’ which creates smart playlists of similar sounding tunes as well as recomending other artists that you might be interested in buying/listening too. A nice touch but a bit dangerous for folks like me who will download a tune just because its 79p forgetting that if you buy 12 songs that doesn’t equal 79p and then I cry when I can’t buy food. *Shakes fist* but east I have music for the soul.
But as much as I love the new nanos it looks as though the ipod touch is the way forward, after all I did love my old one so much. Guinnivere RIP.