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It's been a couple of weeks now since Apple's "Music event," where they announced the changes to the iPod line. Now, I have a perfectly functioning first generation iPod, a Classic iPod, and a first generation iPhone. All of them work just fine. I still use all of them. I like all of them.
I don't need another iPod. I don't even have enough media to fill my Classic iPod. But the new Nano, with the video camera, is just so very very cool. It comes in two sizes, 8 gig or 16, at $149.00 and $179.00, respectively. The video camera works in portrait or landscape, and has a built-in microphone. For someone like me, who just wants to be able to do occasional video-blogging, or vlogging, it's ideal. This third generation iPod Nano even uses iTunes to download the video from the Nano, and you can edit it in iMovie, or upload it to YouTube or wherever.
This is the closest thing to ideal I've seen for the casual user who simply wants to capture a couple of minutes of video for a Web page or blog. The video is H.264 VGA video, 640 by 480 pixels, up to 30 frames per second with AAC audio. That means that you can shoot and store roughly 8 or 16 hours of video, depending on the Nano model.
The fact that the new Nano includes an FM receiver with digital track identification and a built in digital pedometer is just icing on the cake.
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