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hey guys this is Austin and today I'm here with a review of the new iPod Nano 7th generation this brings back a much more traditional design but is it any good first step is to pop open the box and inside you'll find the iPod Nano and yellow although in person it's pretty green you'll also find the new lightning cable to charge and sync and the Apple earpods which look like the old earbuds but actually don't sound bad at all pop the screen protector off and finally the iPod is free take a look around the iPod Nano and you'll see it's absurdly small along the left side you'll see the volume rockers as well as a center button which allows you to pause skip tracks and more the top houses the sleep/wake button and on bottom you'll see the Lightning jack plastic window for the Bluetooth antenna and the headphone jack to give you a better idea of how thin the new Nano is it's identical in thickness to the cable on the earpods hook and a pair of beefier headphones and the Nano looks downright silly speaking of audio of course that's what an iPod is all about with the included headphones the Nano sounds perfectly fine with a moderate amount of bass and solid overall quality hook up a pair of more power-hungry headphones like the audio technica ath em 50s and the iPod will drive them just fine although of course not as well as with a proper set up even though it looks just like iOS Apple officially calls this the Nano OS and it's not hard to see why you have no support for apps and Wi-Fi is nowhere to be found so it's best not to go toss your iPhone away just yet to navigate you can swipe back from any screen or hit the home button to go to the home screen it's very responsive and features a 2.5 inch display with a resolution of 240 by 432 in addition to music you can always watch a video on the tiny display it plays 480p video syncs from iTunes and the player is just fine but honestly I can't imagine anyone actually wanting to watch a movie on something that's small same goes for pictures you can view them but it's not something terribly useful mackay plus is built-in along with a pedometer which can be helpful for exercising you'll find a few more apps like radio podcasts and a clock but don't expect to do much more than listen to music on it battery life is really impressive I've been using the Nano off and on for several days now with the screen on full brightness and I've only just dented my first charge the thing with the iPod Nano is that it's still entirely tethered to iTunes want to add a song hopefully you don't have Spotify because you're going to need to import the music into iTunes find your lightning cable let the iPod stop anything you were doing and then transfer the files over with music available effortlessly everywhere you turn on smartphones and even the iPod touch this feels like a major hassle don't get me wrong the iPod Nano is the best iPod for music yet it's tiny uncomplicated and amazingly enough plays mp3s the thing is that's exactly what the first iPod Nano did when I bought it in 2005 if this was 100 dollars I'd say it makes sense but a $150 it's not much less than the vastly more useful iPod Touch which makes it a hard sell don't forget to hit up that like button and if you're interested in more videos like this I've got lots of coverage of the new iPod touch anyway I will catch you in the next one