iPod nano: the first 24 hours

Georg mate, sort it out! If the headphones are what stopping you buying a black one there is two things you should consider. Firstly, the phones the ipod ship with are pretty crap, anyone willing to pay so much money for a music player and not putting a bit aside for a decent set of headphones is a bit silly. Secondly, almost all other headphones out there are black so will go nicely with the black nano. People won't be able to tell you're listening to an iPod by using them too unless of course you want everyone out there to know you're a nano owner in which case you're a big show off and need to get a life!!! :-P Nano looks very cool though, if only they'd get the damn thing to play OGG files I think I'd be tempted over to the dark side of Apple.

I... I can't. I can't read this anymore. Please stop. my 4GB Black nano hasn't arrived yet.

Ehm Georg... You don't get it? iPod = White headphones, didn't you see the ads? Don't you see people everywhere with those white earbuds and wires that just scream iPod? The pink mini didn't come with pink headphones and people didn't complain about it. The PSP is black and comes with white earbuds. Anyway even if the iPod headphones are above average compared to what you get when you buy other music players, you could buy better headphones, in black for $25 if you really want them to match. Anyway it's not like the iPod nano was red and the earbuds green... Black and white are perfect complements, does a piano look ridiculous?

Would it be worth it to replace my 20GB 3rd generation iPod and my 512mb shuffle w/ one of these? I wonder how much those two would garner on eBay... :)

C.K. Got it. If you try it again you'll find that it's much faster. The very first time you sync the nano for photo use, iTunes optimizes the photos for display on it and this does take a long time. But it's a one-time thing. Once photos are optimized, they don't need to be optimized again (when you add new photos they'll need to be optimized, however). So the results I got were based on a sync where the photos were already optimized.

Forget about FireWire syncing, it isn't going to speed things up all that much. The bottleneck isn't USB it is the flash memory.

Hey, Chris, I didn't do as scientific studies as you did with a race and timed iPods, so maybe my impatience was getting the best of me; however, I chose to manually sync, and dragged songs over simultaneously with the first migration of all my photos. It took well over 15 minutes, but this was cramming a LOT of photos in there (wedding and honeymoon and another vacation), and the photos seemed to be the real time-suck of the procedure.

Darran, where is your companys Job Application form? ;) I like the look of the black.. but I have a black Rio Nitrus, and fingerprints show up on it bigtime.. so I think I'll probably get the white. Still deciding though :P Josh

Thanks for your quick review. I haven't seen one yet live, so the evaluation of those lucky few who possess one is helpful. From the pictures I saw the nano looks like the best iPod Apple has ever produced, but I had my doubts regarding the "feel" of it, I was afraid it would not live up to the quality of the large iPods, good to know that it doesn't have the flimsy plastic feeling of the shuffles. Not sad of the passing of the iPod minis, they never seemed to strike a chord with me, too colorful and a bit bulky. The only thing that bothers me about the nano is that the black edition, which I find most attractive, comes with white earphones and accessories. Why? Looks ridiculous. Can it be that expensive for Apple to produce black earphones, I don't get it. That's the only thing keeping me from ordering one now.

That jeans pocket is actually called a watch pocket. They date back to the time when men wore pocket watches. Jeans are more than 100 years old after all. I think the ones Steve Jobs was wearing Had an unusually deep pocket.