Apple iPod Nano (3rd generation)
“We’ve taken the most popular music player in the world and added stunning video playback just in time for the holiday season,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “The iPod nano just keeps getting better and better with each new generation.”
The all new iPod nano features a 204 pixel per inch display that is 65 percent brighter than the previous generation and delivers 320×240 resolution that is perfect for watching your favorite movies and TV shows on the go. iPod nano also features an enhanced user interface that shows off album artwork and photos like never before, and now includes Cover Flow, so you can scroll through your entire music collection by album cover artwork using the Click Wheel.
The all new iPod nano is perfect for playing iPod games and comes pre-loaded with iQuiz, the entertainment trivia game; Vortex, a fast-paced 360 degree brick-bashing game; and Klondike, the popular solitaire card game. Additional games will be available for iPod nano later this month from the iTunes Store, including Sudoku and Tetris from Electronic Arts and Ms. PAC-MAN from NAMCO.
iPod nano works seamlessly with iTunes so you can import, manage, and then easily auto-sync your favorite content. Buy music, video, and games for your iPod nano from the iTunes Store with more than six million songs available for preview and one-click purchase. With up to 24 hours of audio playback or five hours of video playback on a single charge,* the all new iPod nano is the ultra-portable way to enjoy your favorite music, TV shows and movies on the go.
The iPod is the world’s most popular family of digital music players with over 100 million sold. Today, Apple released its most exciting iPod lineup ever with the iPod shuffle in five new colors; iPod classic holding up to 40,000 songs; the incredible all new iPod nano with video playback; and the breakthrough iPod touch with a revolutionary multi-touch user interface. iPod owners can choose from a vast ecosystem of accessories with over 4,000 products made specifically for the iPod including cases, fitness accessories, speaker systems and iPod connectivity in over 70 percent of US automobiles.
Pricing & Availability
Available today, the 4GB iPod nano comes in silver for just $149 (US) and the 8GB model is available in silver, black, blue, green and a (PRODUCT) RED special edition for just $199 (US). Both the 4GB and 8GB iPod nano for Windows or Mac are available worldwide immediately through the Apple Store® (www.apple.com), Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers. All iPod nano models include earbud headphones, a USB to 30-pin cable and a Universal Dock Connector.
iPod nano requires a Mac® with a USB 2.0 port, Mac OS® X v10.4.8 or later and iTunes 7.4; or a Windows PC with a USB 2.0 port and Windows Vista or Windows XP Home or Professional (Service Pack 2) or later and iTunes 7.4. Internet access is required and a broadband connection is recommended, fees may apply. The iTunes Store is not available in all countries.
* Battery life and number of charge cycles vary by use and settings. See www.apple.com/batteries for more information. Music capacity is based on four minutes per song and 128-Kbps AAC encoding; actual capacity varies by content; photo capacity is based on iPod-viewable photos transferred from iTunes; and video capacity is based on H.264 1.5-Mbps video at 640-by-480 resolution combined with 128-Kbps audio; actual capacity varies by content.
Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and has entered the mobile phone market this year with its revolutionary iPhone.
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Modified rapture…
The new iPod was my first MP3 player purchase, last night. Considering all the ballyhoo about the superior User Interface design of Mac procustcs, I’m not really that impressed.
Most of the music I listen to is classical, and the whole MP3 industry needs to sort out some fundamental naming problems for classical tracks. For a 2CD-box containing one Mahler symphony, I have two “Albums”, one for “GustavMahler; Symphonie No. 2; Abbado, Chicago SO”, the other for “Mah; Sym 2; Abbado, Chicago SO”.
First requirement: a relational database with a single ID for each composer, work, conductor and orchestra. Preferably with each work categorised as Symphony, String Quartet, Opera, etc. etc and the ability to have a number and/or name – for “Manfred Symphony”, “Symphony No. 6″, and “Symphony No. 6 (‘Pathetique’)”. Mafor benefit: only one person has to know how to spell “Schubert”. Ideally each language gets its own versions of names for both people and works.
Second requirement: recognition of CDs 1 and 2 as part of the same bloody album. I’m really looking forward to putting the Ring cycle on there.
Third requirement: a Work/Disc/track hierarchy, that deals with more than one work on the same CD and more than one CD for the same work. Then we can end those idiotic track titles like “Strauss (R), 4 Last Songs, Op. posth. – Im Abendrot” where everything except the song title is the same on the next track and there isn’t enough screen width to see the song titles. Oh, and then the addition of “Work” to the categories like “Album”, “Playlist” and so on.
The same kind of tripe is served up in Windows Media Player, but as I had to download a whole new 50 Mb app just to put CD tracks onto my iPod, Apple seem to have had the opportunity to do that “right thing” that they’re supposed to be experts at.
Back in the user interface of the player itself, if I’m playing an album in that old fashioned “track 1, then track 2, then track 3″ way, I often wonder what’s coming up next. That means: MENU click, move down to Music, and select it, move to/select Albums. Now find the album that’s currently playing (for which you have to remember what it’s called – there’s nothing else to tell you.
Select it, find the little icon that shows which track is playing, and then read the line below. Then repeat most of this tedious operation backwards to return to where you were. Back in the stone age, you just picked up the record sleeve and looked. But Apple decided to waste a huge chunk of screen space for the album cover piuc that I didn’t bother downloading. “Next: Ruhe, Meine Seele” – that’s all we need. (Some hope…)
I could go on. But next time I see one of those Steve Jobs videos with screaming fans hailing a new product, I’ll have a bucket of salt handy.
And another thing: That damnfool name “Owner’s ipod” – apparently I had one chance to change it and I’ve missed the boat. That’s a really CRASS piece of design.
You can change it.
In itunes, when your iPod is connected, you click your iPod name (“Owner’s iPod”) twice – NOT double click as some get confused with – and it should allow you to change the name of it.
& with the whole song naming thing; Why don’t you just rename the songs so YOU would recognise it.
to be honest, i havent seen any other mp3 player out there that has as many categories as an ipod. usually they’re just “album” and “artist” ¬_¬
but that’s just my input.
Peter
Before you go off on a rant just to make yourself feel better, make sure that you know what you’re talking about. There are so many inaccuracies in your post above that, if corrected, would show you how to do at least half of what you claim cannot be done.
* firstly, you launch into a diatribe about the “MP3 industry” and then impart your wisdom on relational databases. This is a not the place for that – this is a review on a particular iPod. Yes, I know the iPod plays MP3s, but so does a train carry people with shoes on – not the place to complain about shoes.
* You CAN tell iTunes that this is “disc x of y” – it will then be stored in the MP3 file for all eternity, so you don’t have to worry.
* You DON’T have to go right to the root menu to see what’s playing. Once press of the menu button, and you’ll see all the tracks on the playing album…
* … and the one you’re listening to DOES have a little speaker next to it to show you that it’s now playing.
If you think you only had one opportunity to name the thing, you’re also wrong.
You could go on? Spare us – rather learn a thing or two before opening your mouth, please.
Mine was a birthday present, and my mom bought it online September 9th. I got it a few days later, but it didn’t work properly so I had to send it back; the second one they sent me did the same thing, so it was my computer — and later, I realized, my USB port — that had the problem. I was pissed about the wait but their customer service was great, this lady named Julie called my house every few days to let me know what was going on. They’re sending me a free case for “my troubles” too, which is nice.
As far as the actual iPod goes, it’s my first too, and I’ve put about 700 songs on there. I’ve had trouble enabling it for disk use, but I guess I’m just not doing it right. And it really sucks that to really enjoy “Cover Flow” I have to find hundreds of album covers online to make it look pretty. Oh, and my battery is not long-lived at all (but it’s a quick recharge).
Besides that, I like it; Apple products are usually very user-friendly and accessible.
Hi I have just bought the new nano (3rd generation) and having problems do you have the telephone number of Julie? I loaded up all my songs, downloaded the new updated and it crashed now I cannot get it to work
This happened to me also . You just connect the ipod to the pc and itunes will handle the rest of it
Am I to understand that the 3rd Gen Nano does not work with Tiger OS? I got one and it will not work on my iBook (system 10.3, it needs 10.4 or higher) when I tried to DL 10.4 my iBook would not do that either! Am I SOL until I buy Leopard??
omg omg omg i put on the screen lock and then like i forgot the combinationn WHAT DO I DO ?!?! email me at rachelcaitlin@comcast.net
I bought a ipod 3rd generation. I know how to download music from the itunes to computer into the ipod, but using limewire or bearshare I can copy music to the c omputer but can not copy back to the ipod. I dont know what to do. I need help.
thanks
zak
u should download a converter…which converts any file into wma or quickplay format and then get it onto the ipod
you just have to drag the files into the itunes list,then voela
This ipod is really awesome. The only problem i hadwith this one is the fact that after a week or so the click wheel became a little loose. not really a big deal but i just though i’d say so. I also had another problem a while back that when i opened up cover flow the covers were just pink fuzz. so i plugged it into my computer and there was an update for that problem and a few others. it went away though.i liked the battery life. 24 long hours of music and 5 hours of straight video. It is so small to play video! overall great product. I give it a 7.5 out of ten.
My daughter received a 3rd generation ipod nano 8 gb for Christmas. It worked fine for a few days and now the video displays colors negatively. Looks somewhat like an infrared image. We tried resetting to the apple logo, hooking back up to the computer to reset to factory settings and the fix works momentarily. It reverts back to this reversed color scheme. Any help or insight into this problem would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Click and hold the MENU and CENTRE button at the same time, when the iPod screen goes black quickly press and hold the CENTRE and REWIND button. You can change your iPod video settings there. To get out of the green diagnostic screen press and hold the MENU and CENTRE button again.
omg i did that it was rele scary dont do that unless u no wut ur doing
I read your comment and it helped me to get my iPod working again. It has been stuck for days and I have not been able to figure it out and I couldn’t find my manual. Thanks for your instructions! Now I have my music back :)
-Brandi
Peter Biddlecombe, maybe you should stick to vinyl mate.
Firstly, would I be right in saying that most classical music has been put on cd several times by different orchestras/artists etc over the years?
Do you really expect someone to catalogue all that?
What’s so hard about just right clicking and then clicking ‘get info’ where you can edit all the details you want, including the ability to put two cds into one album.
I’m not defending apple here by any means since I have seen itunes do some pretty freaky stuff with my libary including putting all the tracks on one album back to front.
But at the end of the day, it’s all editable.
Secondly, I don’t know what the crap you are taling about when you say it’s hard to find out which track is currently playing.
For a start, who cares????
You can find out what’s next by simply waiting for the current track to finish or even just by press right on the wheel.
It may have been easier to find the track listing on with cds but then, who wants to carry a rucksack full of fecking cds around with them?
The nano is a great projuct, stop whining about every stupid little fault you think you’ve found.
I have only had the nano 3rd generation for less than a month and it very often decides it wants to skip to the next track randomly, and sometimes it just won’t play the song, even though it loads the song, it just won’t play it. Kind of dissapointing since I can’t just listen to 5 minutes of music without it skipping to the next track or just quitting all together
If you could help me out please email me dixon.tm@gmail.com
thanks
dude just try holding down the menu and select/middle button until an apple shows up and everything should be fixed
HELP ME PLEASE!!!
I accidentally put on screen lock and i don’t know what i set it on!
E-Mail me if you can help me and ONLY if you can help me
smackxthisx33@aim.com
connect ur ipod to itunes and click restore this should reset it back to 0000
in your computer just go to your ipod and tools folder option that show hidden folders than go to ipod contorl than device than you see something says locked so you rename it to unlocked than there you go instead of restoring it.
I’ve had this 8gb nano for a week before it decided to completely die on me. It won’t reset, charge or even respond at all.
I really expected a better product from apple.
Same thing happened to me. I returned it and got a new one. Same thing happened again. Just left it this time and weirdly enough after about 8 months I went back to it and plugged it into the computer, and it magically worked again. I’m not sure how it happened.
if your ipod crashes all you have to do is press both the center button and menu at the same time and i resets everything (will not erase) and will work just fine
Wow.
That’s all I have to say.
I’ve owned the previous version of the iPod nano and I disliked the boring display and blocky body design. It also lacked Coverflow, a reasonable screen resolution, maybe a little color instead of just blue and white.
But the 3rd Gen. iPod nano caught my eye and I basically fell in love with it.
It’s got a very bright screen, great for people who don’t have the best of vision. But it can be bad for battery life. Secondly, the Coverflow feature is second from AMAZING. It keeps all my music organized in a very appealing way. MUCH better than going through a list of songs. So it’s good if you have a TON of music like me. The iPod is kind of confusing if you’ve never had one before, so a lot of people claim it’s “broken” when all it needs is to be reset. iTunes and the iPod also work perfectly in sync. It’s easy to figure out how to sync the iPod and you’ve got loads of options with easy navigation. The Apple Customer Support line is very helpful as well if you’ve got any questions.
I would totally recommend this MP3 player over anything else. iPod > Zune
i have just got an 3rd gen nano and do not have the manual starter book,
can anyone tell me how to put videos on it??
hey umm i got the ipod (3rd gen.) for my birthday, and i just cant seem to be able to put any videos on it… can someone tell me how??? plz?
Use file to add file to library. Once you get a video into the movie folder, then you have to right click and convert it to ipod style. It took me forever to get it right.
I have the iPod Nano 4GB model, its a very nice little music player, it lasts the whole day, and it does what I tell it to do. however, I prefer having my songs on repeat, hence why the playcount is 756 on “LinkinPark – Breaking The Habbit” but after a few times on repeat my iPod will freeze, every time I plug it into my computer it will freeze, I have heard a lot of people having the same problem and I would like to know if anyone knows of any type of bug fix. my iPod is upgraded to the latest software and everyday I synchronize it I will constantly check for an update and there still is no more fixes. if anyone at all knows of anything to resolve this then please reply to this. thankyou
I just downloaded 493 songs to my ipod nano 3rd generation and as soon as it was done it said it was ok to disconnect. Well the bar went across and then is disconnected me from itunes and then the apple logo screen just keeps going off and on and i can’t do anything. I have even tried resetting it, but nothing.
i revently got the new ipod from Apple and its lovely. the only thing is, it bugs me when i cant put my music videos and such onto it because it only takes MP4 format. does anyone know where i can get software to convert files or something along these lines?
thank you!
I have an ipod 3rd generation, i was wondering if a radio is on it. Please tell me if im a complete idiot or there actually is one
you can by an attachment that clips onto the bottom to play radio, or get a dock
my ipod nano 3g works fine!!
its so easy to use and i always get podcasts for it!!
WORTH ALL THE MONEY!!
hi..let me know how to get the games from pc to ipod nano-3rd generation–{free games}…and let me know the link for free games n all plzzzz
the iPod nano is useless where games are concerned. There are no free games available for downloads, all need to be purchased from apple
I’ve had my Ipod Nano 3rd Gen. for around a year. I love this thing. It’s my first Ipod, but I’ve had mp3 players before. Some simple things that annoy me personally: the battery life. I lasts FOREVER on certain occasions, and the next, it last for an hour. It may just be where I charge it at, my Ipod dock usually charges it better than my USB port. Also, if I want to use my friend’s Itunes, I usually can’t because they have to have a certain version of a newer Itunes; most of my friends have the 2nd Gen. Ipod. Also, I didn’t have the internet for awhile; how was a supposed to get Itunes? Thankfully, my parents caved fpr the internet, but before then, I was stuck with no music and a useless Ipod. Last thing: while playing “Klondike” on my Ipod, if I search through songs, then my Ipod resets, I lose all my settings, and any current playlists I had not saved. These are all very easily fixed things, though, and other than that, I am pleased with my Ipod.
I just bought my ipod i got 200 songs on it (ipod 4gig 3rd gen.) i got all my songs of limewire and i also got some videos off limewire to go to itunes i saw the videos on the itunes library but when i drag it to my ipod it tells me my video can not be played on this ipod????
Can anyone HELP?????
well here’s the thing. i got the third generation iPod for christmas last year and had it for about 6-8 months. then it was washed. i put it in rice for like 2 months and nothing ; it still doesn’t work, i would like to know if anyone know any repair work that could be done so i don’t have to but a brand new one. i will try almost anything. thank you.
someone,
help me…
i bought my ipod few months back and i just started to explore it recently..
so, when i was exploring, i accidentally press the lock screen button and it requires me to enter the right password…
and.. i dont know wats the password or the number combination..
how could i solve thiss?
i’d press the menu and centre button and stuff (as wat it should be done wen the pod isnt rsponding), but it didnt work..
so, somebody, plz help me..
thanks lot..
ok first of all this is the easiest thing to fix in the world.
ok step 1 plug your ipod into the computor and itunes will unlock it automaticly if that doesnt work restore it.
What a great iPod! This is the best I have seen yet! I run an online business called “iPod Ideas” at http://www.ipodideas.webs.com that supports hacking the iPod. This is the best video ipod I have ever used! I hack iPods for fun and this one is potentially harder to hack. I have only experienced 1 problem and it was from the firmware. Otherwise, congrats apple! You have found your bestseller!
Does anyone know how many hours a full battery could cover for the third generation iPod Nano?
I HAVE A IPOD 3RD GEN NANO 4GB, PLEASE TELL ME HOW I PUT GAME ON IT OR HOW I INSTALL GAMES IN MY I POD
how can u unlock ipod even with out primary computer and without syncing it plz tell me!!!
i have apple nano 3g, and it just shows the apple logo with on an off, i tried to restore but no response,, can anyone help hw to do??? and which software??
ipod is best music device i have seen. the operating system is wonderful.
i love it, right now i’m thinking about having an iphone for myself.
How can I change the name of the iPod Nano 3rd gen.?
I have had my iPod nano 3rd Gen. w/8G for three years now. It was VERY reliable until the timeframe between 2 1/2 years and 3 years, and it was then that the center button, the back/rewind button, and the play/pause buttons stopped working. For a while, the center button would work if I pressed REALLY REALLY hard, but now it just doesn’t work at all. I tried to take it apart, and I unscrewed everything and tried to lift the center button and the clickwheel to try and reset the rubber things that so many people are telling me to move, but I can’t get the clickwheel and the center button away from the colored-casing. I really need some help–music is my life, and I cannot afford a new one. I just need the center button, the play/pause button, and the back/rewind buttons to work.
Help would be very much appreciated.
I bought an ipod nano 3rd gen 8gb yesterday. then i installed Itunes v9 on windows 7. I connected my ipod to a usb 2 port as it said so- but my itunes just wont read the ipod. I tried connecting after and before opening itunes but no use. I want 2 add videos and photos and also games, but i dont know how. Can some1 help me?
Give me a chance to thank that person a lot!
I would also like 2 know how to change the display name of the ipod 2 my name in the computer and the ipod.
Send me an email: “homam_ahmed@hotmail.com”.