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iPod Nano

Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 5:00 am
by Chris Corbyn
I bought an iPod nano over the weekend... it's nice and small (tiny, stupidly tiny) and very stylish and all that.... but now that I've bought it I must say, fairly overpriced for 4GB.

My new toy all the same :D

Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 5:06 am
by shiznatix
how much do those pieces cost?

edit: and what kinda batteries do they run off? is it one of those awesome mp3 players that recharge when you plug them into the usb?

Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 5:09 am
by Chris Corbyn
shiznatix wrote:how much do those pieces cost?

edit: and what kinda batteries do they run off? is it one of those awesome mp3 players that recharge when you plug them into the usb?
The 4GB one cost me £180 GBP. The batteries are moulded somewhere inside it and it just charges when you plug it into USB yes - they seem to hold their charge fiarly well though ;)

Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 5:20 am
by shiznatix
dang that is quite pricey. when you say they hold their charge quite well, how long do you mean? i would listen to mine for 3 - 5 hours a day without charging capabilities, would it hold out that long?

Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 5:26 am
by Chris Corbyn
shiznatix wrote:dang that is quite pricey. when you say they hold their charge quite well, how long do you mean? i would listen to mine for 3 - 5 hours a day without charging capabilities, would it hold out that long?
Yeah, it lasts about 6 hours from fully charged. Takes about 90 mins to charge from flat after the initial 3 hour charge.

Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 5:30 am
by patrikG

Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 5:32 am
by jayshields
ive had a creative zen micro for about 5 months now, imo it is still one of the best around. It's 5gb, removable battery which lasts about 6 hours on a full charge. nice blue light on it :) nice and small too :) you can even get it in pink! cost me £135 GBP new with postage when i got it those months ago.

i dropped it about a month after i bought it, managed to get in contact with creative and they sent me a new one in a week, lol :)

http://www.creative.com/products/produc ... duct=10795

Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 5:59 am
by Chris Corbyn
patrikG wrote:Why not upgrade your Nano to 200Gb?

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Ipod_Nano_ ... structions

Slashdot discussion:

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl ... 4&from=rss
Hahaha... awesome. Maybe I'll do that, I agree on the battery-life thing being a small price to pay :P

Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 6:22 am
by Maugrim_The_Reaper
I have an iPod Mini. The prices are a little steep but consider how much they've fallen. 'twas only a year or two ago Sony were passing off MiniDisc players for a lot more...;) Consider you get a mini HDD - something I suspect is the major cost driver...

Battery life is a lot better since the original iPod disasters too. Not sure why you'd risk the HDD on a mass upsizing though. I have trouble getting a little mini full, even while doubling as a portable HDD (something Apple should add more to their marketing about...).

Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 6:26 am
by Chris Corbyn
Maugrim_The_Reaper wrote:I have an iPod Mini. The prices are a little steep but consider how much they've fallen. 'twas only a year or two ago Sony were passing off MiniDisc players for a lot more...;) Consider you get a mini HDD - something I suspect is the major cost driver...

Battery life is a lot better since the original iPod disasters too. Not sure why you'd risk the HDD on a mass upsizing though. I have trouble getting a little mini full, even while doubling as a portable HDD (something Apple should add more to their marketing about...).
LOL... did you actually read the article? :P ;)

Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 6:36 am
by Grim...
Hellooo?

It's obviously bull <span style='color:blue' title='I&#39;m naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span>!

Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 6:40 am
by patrikG
I find the results quite impressive: http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Ipod_Nano_ ... ons/Page_3

Only problem might be the battery performance, but if you hook it up to a car battery, you'll have days of battery-life without recharging!

Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 6:56 am
by Grim...
All together now... It can't be done!

Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 7:12 am
by Chris Corbyn
patrikG wrote:I find the results quite impressive: http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Ipod_Nano_ ... ons/Page_3

Only problem might be the battery performance, but if you hook it up to a car battery, you'll have days of battery-life without recharging!
I think i could live with it.... just make sure you only listen to one song per recharge and get bigger pockets :P

Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 7:12 am
by shiznatix
patrikG wrote:Why not upgrade your Nano to 200Gb?
tell me, does anyone here actually have 200GB of songs? i have 3 computers and i don't even have that much combined space !!!