22 years old, a student of English and Creative Writing and an avid Manchester United fan!!
22 years old, a student of English and Creative Writing and an avid Manchester United fan!!
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I was given my Ipod Nano 1Gb in black for my birthday and was made up with it! Saved me £129 as I was going to uy myself one anyway! It comes with the necessary software and cables and also a cover and headphones.
I think the first thing you should all know is exactly how much 1Gb is? Well according to Apple, you can fit APPROX 240 songs on an Ipod of this size. I have 261 on mine and still a tiny bit of space! It weighs only 42g and its dimensions are 90 x 40 x 6.9 mm. It's a tiny little thing! It has a 3.61cm (diagonally measure) lcd screen, full colour.
Ok, well the first thing to do is charge it. In order to do this
you need to plug it into your computer with the provided USB cable. (I chose to buy an adaptor so that I could charge it from a wall socket when travelling...this was £20.)
Next up is installing the software. This was surprisingly simple actually. The instructions on screen were clear and the electroni manual explains how to put tracks on, so I won't turn this into an instruction manual. What I will say, however, is that I recommend enabling your Ipod for disk use, as it measn you are not entirely restricted to Itunes (there are other programmes available) and I would always opt NOT to have your Ipod update automatically in accordance with your Itunes library. This is simply because if you decide to delete the tracks from your library (why would you need them on both Ipod and computer afterall?), it upates your Ipod by deleting them from there too!
When you turn on your Ipod, the first menu you will see offers; MUSIC, PHOTOS, EXTRAS, SETTINGS AND SHUFFLE SONGS.I will go through what each of this comprises.
MUSIC: This is essentially all the music tracks that you have put onto the Ipod and you can choose to browse them as sorted by artist, title, album, genre, composer or playlist.
PHOTOS; This allows you to view the photographs you have put onto your Ipod. I personally havent put any on, but it's always a nice option. Again you can browse them through here.
EXTRAS; I think what surprised me the most about this was the fact there are games on it! I love it! The extras menu consists of CLOCK, GAMES, CONTACTS, CALENDAR, NOTES, STOPWATCH AND SCREENLOCK. The clock allows you to set the time and city. This then automatically sets several other clocks from major places around the world for you. There is the option of an alarm clock on here too, so if you plug in a mini speaker instead you can be woken up by your favourite song! The games included on it are Brick, Music Quiz, Parachute and Solitaire. I find it difficult to control them with the click wheel to be honest, but I really enjoy Music Quiz. Basically you are shown 5 titles of tracks you have on your MP3 player and played a small sample and you have to choose the correct title as quickly as possible. The contacts option allows you to put contact information in but this must be done from the computer and can't be entered through the actual Ipod/. Calendar includes a calendar of course but also a to-do list generator, which is quite handy! Notes is basically a space for you to put on any word processed document you want on there. Stopwatch speaks for itself - very useful when playing Countdown with your friends lol!
From SETTINGS you control the settings of your Ipod. Firstly the EQ...there are more than 20 options, or even "off" if you dont want to bother with that! Then there is the option to turn compilations and sound check on and off. This is followed by whether you want the "click" sound when you use the wheel. It gets annoying after a while...I'd turn it off! Then there are the date and time settings, contact settings, language setting and the legal documentation Apple are obliged to include. From here you can also change the length of time to keep the back light on for and arrange shuffle and repeat play settings.
SHUFFLE SONGS does exactly that...lets you choose to play the songs in any random order!
All in all, a cracking piece of equipment. In theory, the battery can last, according to Apple, up to 14 hours. I have never had it last that long. Usually around 8 at most. But but it charges quickly. I would recommend putting the "hold" on the top of the ipod on when not using. I have wasted so much battery by having it blaring away in my handbag without me realising.
Anyway, overall it really is great. I'd rate it 9/10 but would suggest to those of you who want to use it for photos as well, that you go for the 2 or 4gb.
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Advantages: Slim and Just magnificent- stores music and pics..what more do you want? Disadvantages: Damn- MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A COMPUTER THAT WORKS...LMAO
mightyd 23.06.2006 (30.06.2006)
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Review of Apple iPod nano 1 GB
Advantages: It is stylish, has many features, is cheaper compared to other iPods, and is small. Disadvantages: One cannot play videos on it, only 1 GB storage.
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