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what's up everyone john retinue from TechnoBuffalo here they review for you of the first ever touch screen only iPod Nano let's see this little guy is worth the money so if you want to pick up an iPod Nano of your own it's gonna cost you 149 bucks for 8 gigs or 179 for 16 so first being an iPod let's talk about the audio playback it's typical apple and typical iPod quality comes through very strong with various headphones I didn't have any crackling strong bass everything sounds very good so if you're worried about how music is gonna sound on this little guy don't worry it's going to sound quite good so let's talk about the main attraction or detraction here and that is the screen and the operating system it is a 1.5 4 inch TFT display the resolution of 240 by 240 and it looked very similar to iOS so interestingly enough it is actually not an iOS device there's no app store here and it's based on a different source code but it looks very similar and acts very similar so your home screen is I have throw of 2 by 2 or column the 2 by 2 for total icons with pages you can go ahead and scroll through I'll show you what your icons are here you have playlists now playing artists radio genius mixes podcast settings photos songs albums composer genres fitness it's yours for your Nike stuff in the pedometer and a clock and the operating system works it might take you like again much like the Apple operating systems that you're used to if you want to move icons around you go ahead and hold them they do a little jiggly dance and go ahead and move them anywhere you like you can use this button on the top here to go ahead and stop them from dancing and set on where you are and also you've got actually physical volume up and down buttons which is quite nice so how does navigation work with an only touchscreen and there not being a real home button well it's actually kind of interesting the home button is actually the screen itself via hold down on the screen it goes ahead and takes you back home a little bit weird and definitely strange to get used to this does have multi-touch I really the only place you can see it is in this rotation and go ahead and rotate this any way you want much like previous generation iPod nanos you can sync your photos to it although the only way that you can really use multi-touch again is to rotate them there is no pinch-to-zoom here things work very oddly in the music department and let me go ahead and show you what I mean so if you want to go ahead and view artists for example you get your full artist lists and on this 1.54 inch screen you have to keep scrolling down you can do the same scroll on the left side and get to the letter find what you want and go ahead and pick it to go let's listen Jake for example and it looks very much like it does on an iPhone or an iPod Touch hit the home button or trying hit the home button and it goes back a playlist is very similar you have the ability to add and create your own playlist on a fly which is quite nice I'll show you what it looks like when you're playing music that's a little bit different as well so now playing there's some good to be me there's no album right here we can go ahead and scroll through and you can see if there was album art it would just show up there and if you want to see the controls you go and tap the screen and you get back forth in your typical playing icons if you see that little eye in the bottom right hand corner if you tap a bat you can see other songs by the band and the album you can scroll through and even give it stars if you want right here 1 2 3 4 or whatever you like if you wanted to go back your screen you don't have to actually hit the home button to go back or hold the screen you can swipe your finger back that'll take you right back home this is taking a while to get used to to get used to this new operating system an overall wallet is functional I am NOT a fan of navigating on such a small screen and if you don't touch it for a while it's gonna take you right back unless you pause it I over all it's working like I mentioned it's functional but it's very difficult to go ahead and scroll through I do miss being able to take the scroll wheel and just keep going down bound down and spinning till I get to what I want as opposed to not having a flick to where I want to go some nice features and some additions are the physical volume buttons I don't have to use the scroll wheel now and unlock the device to control the volume I do like addition of a clip on the back which makes this sort of a nice I watch if you want to put it in a little watch after while you're at the gym or clipping it to your shirt so it is definitely a bit positive but there are a lot of glaring negatives there are actually a lot of features that are missing from this generation iPod Nano over even just a previous generation that came right before it primarily they were missing the camera on the back it wasn't the best camera in the world but it's nice to sort of have that option if you guys remember the iPod Nano I was gonna be the vice that was going to kill sort of the flip minnow series of devices well Apple evidently it's really retracted on that Battlefront and taking out the camera completely on the iPod Nano although I suspect it's something that we'll see on next generations on the other nice things about this knife pod now in this previous generation is that a speaker built-in you listen to the music right from your iPod you can no longer do that on the new nano there isn't any sort of built-in speaker with just a little bit on the annoying sites they go to now playing hit play push the volume all the way up there is no music coming out and unfortunately so if you relied on the speaker you like to sort of have that option not gonna work for you of course this generation iPod Nano is fully compatible with all the accessories and chargers and so I use the same 30 pin connector but if you're used to a dock that has a slot for the iPod fully cut out this is gonna be a little bit hard to fit in there is a thickness difference too because of the clip so it may not work with all your accessories without is sort of an adapter to make it work something to keep in mind so can I recommend the iPod Nano yes and no it's definitely a mixed bag if you're a big gym rat you want something you can just clip on and have a little bit more controlling you would have an iPod shuffle the Nano is going to be an okay option if you're a big music aficionado and you're managing a lot of playlists and a lot of albums and a lot of songs it's gonna be very very very hard to do on such a small screen in my opinion this iPod Nano should have probably been the evolution of the iPod shuffle not an iPod and expect a iPod and have a little bit of a larger screen something like this even if it was all touchscreen that would have been okay almost like an iPod Touch mini I suppose would have been a nice scenario so well it is very kind of cool and you get a lot of nice looks while you're out it's not going to be that functional for you so I cannot recommend this generation iPod Nano in fact it's a great time to go ahead and pick up a previous generation iPod Nano which does pretty much everything - the touchscreen that the new one does for what's going to be a lower price now and you get a camera and a speaker it's very interesting to see the evolution of this iPod Nano line from what began as the iPod mini which actually I have right here the first-generation iPod mini I was cleaning out my wife stuff and I happen to find it you can really see how things have changed we've gone from this large thick a spinning hard drive design to a much thinner flash design and now to a completely touch only design you can really see the evolution here it's like the evolution of man type picture you see things get smaller smaller smaller and touchscreen now Apple is always tried continue to innovate this may be a case of innovating too far and doing damage to a good thing so again a conclusion I cannot recommend the new iPod Nano make you're much better off picking up an iPod Touch if it fits your budget anyway guys I'm John Rhett enger' from TechnoBuffalo I like to know what you think leave your comments down below for exclusive content check me out Twitter twitter.com slash John for Lakers and for all your tech content sure to check out their website TechnoBuffalo comm I'll see you the next video bye-bye you