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hey I'm Donnell bail for cnet.com and today we're giving a first look for the Apple iPod Nano the seventh generation iPod Nano it's $149 gives you 16 gigabytes of capacity this is the first iPod Nano to use a kind of iPod Touch style touchscreen design Apple introduced the touchscreen to the iPod Nano last year with a squared off clip-on watch style iPod Nano this time they've elongated the design so that it's more of a I phone iPod Touch look they've added a home button to the bottom to give it that again that a I pod touch iPhone kind of operation but otherwise it's kind of what you'd expect from an iOS ish kind of device it's not running iOS it's running its own unique iPod Nano software there's some new features though you get video playback on this now so if you wanted to watch video on a 2.5 inch screen you now have that ability the other big feature that they've added on here is wireless Bluetooth audio then the big one that we've been asking for for the Nano even arguably something like the shuffle there's a lot of freedom there if you can break the cable of the headphones and be able to use wireless headphones or be able to use this with a wireless speaker another change here is the Apple is using their lightning port connection on here the same one that they're using on the new iPod touch and the new iPhone 5 it's a change for a lot of people that means it's going to break compatibility with accessories like speaker docks or in car stereo speakers that you've got hooked up so if you're going to buy this expect that you're gonna have to buy some new accessories too or just find a way to get maybe get a Bluetooth speaker or something to replace those old docking accessories used to have another slight changes that Apple has upgraded their headphones to these new ear pod design headphones it's a slightly different fit I find it slightly less comfortable actually because it's an all plastic design the plastic is against your ears you get a little bit better audio quality but not that much I think if you really are using this as a fitness mp3 player you're probably going to want to invest in some rugged more fitness friendly headphones than these another thing I was kind of disappointed in is the Apple didn't include the inline remote on these headphones which would be great if you want to change tracks without having to look at your mp3 player they do meet you halfway though one of the new design elements here on the Nano is that they've included a button right on the rocker switch right in between the volume up and volume down that you can use as a play/pause button or if you hold it down you can get that voice over information you can even use it to navigate between different playlists without having to look at the ipod nano still would have been cool to have that on a headphone remote all in all though this is just kind of the classic features we'd expect from an iPod but at a hundred and fifty dollars it's a bit of a stretch especially when you think that's something like the iPod shuffle here it's going to be just fifty dollars you really are kind of into the fitness thing fifty dollars and something you can just clip on your clothes it's going to be a better solution for you probably than this one hundred and fifty dollar glass-covered device add another fifty dollars you can go up to one hundred ninety-nine dollars you can get apples fourth generation ipod touch and you're going to get a ton more features Wi-Fi compatibility airplay email calendar a lot more bang for your buck going with the iPod Touch for $199 and that same 16 gigabyte capacity there you go that's a first look at the Apple iPod Nano the seventh generation