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Apple iPod nano
Taking a Closer Look
If there's one thing you can admire about Apple products and the iPod in particular, it's how stylish and efficient their designs are. In this regard the nano is no exception. The nano is constructed of hard plastic on the front, and metal on the back. All of the materials used are very smooth and shiny, which on the one hand makes the nano very stylish, but also a little difficult to hold on to. There are only two connections to be made with the nano, one being the USB dock connector, and the other being the headphone jack. The Apple click wheel is one of, if not the most intuitive control devices I've ever seen in use on a media player. It consists of a center button that is surrounded by a wheel, which is actually four different buttons and a scroll wheel in one. While the wheel itself does not move, it senses circular movements and thus can be used to control volume and scroll through menus, simply by moving your thumb around it in a circular motion either clockwise or counter-clockwise. Aside from the click wheel, there is only a single "hold" switch to manipulate at the top of the player that effectively locks the device down so inadvertent contact with the click wheel doesn't skip a track, or blast the volume.       One of the reasons the nano is so nice to look at is because of its brilliant little 1.5" color screen. It's obviously not necessary to have such a nice screen on a device that will primarily be used to simply play music, but it certainly makes the nano very pleasing aesthetically. While the nano can technically store and display digital images, the extremely small screen size makes it impossible to do justice to large, detailed images. The screen does however excel at displaying text menus, playlists, and mini album covers which will get transferred to your nano automatically if you've purchased any music on iTunes. The screen is even good enough to make it possible to play a few mini-games that come pre-installed on each nano.
Page 1: Introduction / First Impressions
Page 2: Taking a Closer Look Page 3: Testing Page 4: Conclusion 
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