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| Brand: Apple
Category: CE
Buy New: £118.99
New (8) Used (4) from £79.71
Rating:  11 reviews
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 2.8 x 20.5 x 27.6
MPN: MB253ZO/A
Model: MB253ZO/A
UPC: 885909193905
EAN: 0885909188604
Release Date: September 11, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 6-10 of 11
 Don't buy without seeing one in real life first October 22, 2007
Lancebastion (stratazon.co.uk)
15 out of 19 found this review helpful
I highly recommend tracking down one of the new nano video i-pods before purchasing. The first thing that hit me was just how small it was. Previously before video smaller always = better. Now, perhaps not so.
The screen is small and to be honest you're not going to spend a long time watching videos without straining your eyes. THe upside is that it has the same resolution as the bigger i-pods, which means no loss of quality, just size.
As always there's no replaceable battery, so once it's dead it's pretty much game over. Saying that the flash memory i-pods have much better battery life than ever before.
It's a very nifty piece of kit that just wasn't possible a few years ago. It looks cool and it sounds cool, just don't buy it for the video functionality alone.
 Disclosure September 24, 2007
Seren Ade (UK)
25 out of 29 found this review helpful
I'd give this version of the iPod a full five stars... for a few gigs more, cheaper video releases from iTunes, plus either a screen protector or a simultaneous release from an Apple-partner who makes cases!
As a novice the the world of digitised personal music I loved my iPod shuffle (G1) so much that I bought a (4gb G2) nano... and was then given an 80GB (G5) iPod with video. I found the latter disappointing. I spend a lot of time on 2+ hour train journeys and was looking forward to the ability to watch films/favourite TV shows during my travels. In the end, the promise of iPod-release movies was not brought to fruition (other than a small quantity of expensive Pixar shorts available via iTunes) and the hard-drive based format, though portable is still on the clunky side and far from pocket friendly.
With the third generation of nanos built around flash memory technology, Apple has brought video playback into a pocket-friendly format. (Yay!) The new nano is narrower, shorter and about 4x thicker than a credit card. A number of TV shows have now been made available to download via iTunes (still no films outside of the US iTunes site)... though since these are, in a number of cases, significantly more expensive than their DVD counterparts it's hard to imagine anyone favouring the downloads. At the time of writing, feature films are not yet available via the UK version of iTunes... although the Apple UK website and promotional literature do not reflect this, focusing instead on the new nano's technical abilities in terms of video playback.
After the scratching problems associated with earlier versions of the nano, it was disconcerting to receive my brand new nano without a screen protector... and I found myself unwilling to take it anywhere for the first few days of owning it, since the dimensions of the new nano are completely different to those of previous generations (of any model) so that the only currently available case/protection system appears to be the iPod sock. Since iPod socks are only designed to protect the unit from knocks when inside the sock, I'm still constrained on video playback when travelling!
Please, Apple... when releasing a new format of player, could you make sure there's an appropriate case for it to allow usage and protection, because otherwise iPods might be portable, but they ain't useable.
 Ipod Nano June 15, 2008
Ann
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
A real disappointment. Easily gets scratched, froze at one point when I hadn't even had it for a month and now the buttons won't work and the ipod isn't responding. I would really recommend NOT to buy this product and I'm going to return mine as soon as I can. I had two ipod nanos before the one I have now and they both froze which was really frustrating and you'd think apple would have improved the 3rd gen in more ways than just 'a brighter and wider screen' etc. Apple clearly are not what everybody makes them out to be. Yes the ipod is attractive and compact but to be honest thats about all there is to it.
IPOD NANO- NO THANK YOU August 4, 2008
Christian Stark (Grimsby, UK)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I purchased the new ipod nano at the end of march, so have now had it 4 months. In that time it has'frozen' on a number of occasions and then righted itself a day or two later, which is really unacceptable considering the reputation of Apple.Now i hasten to add the Ipod doesn't function at all and this in only 4 months, a fact i find really unacceptable.
Apple letting the side down September 7, 2007
Mr. Ian D. Pickles (UK)
8 out of 79 found this review helpful
Apple, a company who have moved greatly to new horizons over the past few years, have not sparkled strongly with this disappointment of a new device. In my opinion it is more of a devolution than evolution, as it features little extra to the old nano, and has the disadvantage of losing the innovative and genre-leading style of the old. Overall, a poor show by Apple, when alternatives (such as the new Creative Zen) have so much more (hugely more in fact) to offer in terms of both features and style.
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