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The most bang for your buck (especially if you don't have a lot of bucks!)
By Miss McCool on Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2013
To begin with, I should tell you that I have been an iPod fan since I was given my Classic in 2008. It has been with me through thick and thin - long band trips on crowded buses, sleepless nights, many hours of story inspiration (I am an aspiring author and nothing is better than listening to music while writing), and four moves, one being across the country. So as you can imagine, I was pretty lost when it died on me a few months ago. I am a full-time college student, so money is a luxury I do not often have. I cannot tell you how much research I have put into finding my next music player. At first I was not going to buy an iPod because, frankly, I do not have a lot of money to spare. But while browsing on Amazon, I came across this little beauty. What struck me at first was the reasonable price for 16GB. I looked into it and fell in love with the simplicity. I especially liked that it had a pedometer and a place to track your information with Nike, since I am starting to run and love to take my music along with me. The small package and the beautiful purple color were an added bonus. I just received it today and I was shocked at how tiny it is! It came in a very small, plastic box. Inside is the iPod, then the information packets, and then your earphones and lightning cord. After installing iTunes, you are pretty much set. It is super easy to transfer all of your music over to your library and sinc it to your iPod. I found that when plugging in your earphones or headphones, you need to push it in until you physically feel it "click" in place. I read a few other reviews of this so it really is not too big of a deal. I am very pleased with it. You can listen to local radio, which comes in very clear. I haven't had time to try out the pedometer and everything yet, but I am sure it will be satisfactory, as everything else seems to be. I love the touchscreen. I do recommend you buy a little case for it. It is very small, and it is very smooth. It would not take much to slip right through your fingers. When purchasing it, I also bought the Bluecell Clear TPU Flexible Case Cover. It was $5.99 and came with a little LCD screen cleaner and stylus if you don't like touching your screen with your fingers. It fits like a glove and offers pretty good protection, and the screen cleaner is just fabulous. Anyway, I definitely recommend this iPod! If you are on a budget or you just want something with simple features that puts music as its first priority, then the 7th Generation iPod Nano is definitely for you!
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Much better than the last version, but Apple still doesn't get it right
By Snowhater on Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2013
. Upfront: A big improvement over the last model, but it still doesn't meet the standard set by the click-wheel versions. The good: Apple got smart with this release and captured much of what made the iPod Nanos up through Gen 5 so good. The larger size and screen of the Gen 7 is a huge step forward from the uselessly tiny Gen 6. I can now operate the touch screen pretty reliably with one hand. The screen is also much brighter than the previous model, and the greater screen size makes it far easier to navigate long playlists. The Nike+ function is really well done. It's accurate and useful, and rounds out this player nicely as a tool for exercise. The bad: The button strip of the Nano is too flush with the body of the player, making it difficult to operate the buttons by touch, at least for someone like me with large hands. There is minimal touch feedback and differentiation between the volume buttons and the center multifunction button, meaning that I will often end up rewinding or skipping a song when I am trying to simply adjust volume. Apple really dropped the ball here. The buttons should have been raised further, and given some additional shape for better touch enunciation. Even simple bumps on the volume buttons would have made a tremendous difference. This is a ridiculous failure, because the iPhone, which inspires the iPod design, has volume buttons that protrude considerably more than those of the iPod Nano, making them far easier to operate by touch alone. The greatest limitation of this control scheme is felt when trying to control the player without looking, while wearing the device on a belt clip or armband during exercise. The click wheel models were as easy as it got when it came to this, because the player control was on the outward face of the device, was broad and easily detected with the fingers, and required a push inward, against your body. The mere act of pushing trapped it against the body, which made it unnecessary to actually hold the device while working it. The touch screen however, forces the controls to the side, in a narrow, shallow button-strip arrangement not as easily felt as the wheel. To use the buttons you have to at least pinch the device to hold it, which is somewhat awkward when the unit is worn on the body and especially while running, particularly given how difficult it is for me to feel the buttons. Though it's not Apple's fault, there seems to be a lack of good clip cases for this iPod, which is silly because the included Nike+ system works best when the player is worn at the waist, and lots of athletic shorts and pants don't come with pockets. Overall: This is a major leap forward from the awful Gen 6 Nano, and the Nano is now once again usable during athletic exercise. However, Apple still messed up by aggravating the inherent limitations of the touch design with a stupidly conceived button arrangement. Had they gotten the buttons right, I would have given it four stars, the highest that I could have rated it owing to the fundamental inferiority of the touch design to the click wheel for an object the size of the Nano. This is one of those few cases in Apple's history when their slavish devotion to a single design concept works against it. Anyone remember the Power Mac Cube? ;-)
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