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Over on our side of the Web we had to make a hard option and pick asingleiPod that exemplified the best medicine player Apple had to offer in 2005 . And it was n’t promiscuous . Among our prime group of expert , epithet were interchange over iChat , smack laid down in e-mail , and , so I ’m told , threats levied in letters collaged together with spread and Christian Bible snipped from a newspaper.(If you require to exert your anonymity , next time try using paper that employ the American spelling of “ colour , ” Dalrymple ! )
gravely , I understandMacworld’sdesire to honor the two iPods , as they ’re both suitable devices . But each represents a special stagecoach of growth in the iPod line . One iPod sum up the best of the iPod ’s engineering and another look to the iPod ’s hereafter . When choose the year ’s “ best ” model , we selected what we considered to be today ’s most complete iPod experience — the iPod nano .
I sympathize with that chorus line of moans from 5 G iPod owners . Why choose the less - open iPod nano over an iPod that not only plays music , but offer picture capableness as well ?
Because the iPod with video hints at big thing to number , but is not only more iPod than a circumstances of multitude call for , but , ultimately unfinished .
Survey the iPod owners you know and , betting odds are , you ’ll find that most of them pack fewer than a thousand Sung into their pocket . Some may have laden photos onto their thespian , but permit ’s confront it , it ’s the pocket - defender crowd that use an iPod ’s photo feature article most often . Contacts and calendars ? The capability is there , but more often than not you ’ll find these areas of the typical iPod display nothing more than Apple ’s nonpayment Information screens . In other words , much of the capacity and many of the features of a full - sized iPod are waste on a lot of iPod owners .
The iPod nano render enough quad for a small - to - restrained euphony collection , offer a crisp colour display and reactive controls , costs a bit more than an impulse buy , supports the majority of iTunes features ( audiobooks , On - The - Go playlists , and iTMS music and podcasts ) and is beautiful to hold and behold . The soft - to - use supernumerary are there for those who require them — contact lens , calendars , note , enhanced clock with stopwatch and alarm , and pic and slideshow viewing — and more esoteric features such as part recording , television output , and camera synchronization are left to the higher - price spread .
In many shipway , the iPod nano is the culmination of everything that amount before — small , comfortable to utilize , and tardily on the center . This is an iPod you could give to a parent , a child , your squeeze play , or yourself , without regret .
The iPod with telecasting is no slouch , but it ’s not the perfect histrion for everyone . Those without monumental music collections who use it strictly as a euphony player will find a lot of its storage capability start to waste . And while it ’s great that you could dilute this iPod with pic , you ’ll detect the current survival of videos at the iTunes Music Store limited . Yes , you’re able to rip and sync videos of your own , but it ’s still largely a process open to only the technically adept . And , of course , video necessitate your full attention . Little good it does you to have the entireLord of the Ringstrilogy haunting your 60 GB 5 G iPod when you ’re barreling down the fast lane .
In short , the iPod with telecasting is a great first step for people who know how to take vantage of it . The next step is for Apple and third - parties to allow for the consumables — put up enough video message to flow this iPod as well as provision tools that make it comfortable to transplant telecasting you own to your iPod . This is the time to come , and a future we anxiously expect . When it arrives , I ’m confident the next - generation iPod with telecasting will earn a gaming of its own .
