By Josh Rosenthall: Motorola on Tuesday announced the MotoACTV, a new “smart watch” powered by Android and aimed at serious exercisers. The watch plays music, tells time (of course) and can wirelessly upload a user’s fitness data to the web as it can track the distance, speed, and pace of runners. There are also optional headsets [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 4, 2011
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By Josh Rosenthall: While the iPhone and Siri were unquestionably in Apple’s Keynote main event on Tuesday, the undercard was perhaps occupied by slight upgrades to the iPod Touch and iPod Nano lines. First the iPod Nano, which as we predicted, isn’t going anywhere. Phil Schiller handled the iPod portion of the keynote and kicked [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 4, 2011
So how did Apple get from the 4th/5th gen iPod Nano to the device’s current form factor? Well, it was actually a complex process with multiple objectives as you can see from the photo below. They just divided the old style Nano in two – with the top half becoming the 6th gen iPod Nano [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 10, 2011
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Providing further evidence that the next-gen iPod Nano will maintain its square form factor and will come with a built-in camera, an alleged photo of said device showed up on Tw.apple.pro yesterday. The camera on the Nano will reportedly be a low-res 1.3 megapixel lens. Yes, that’s not all that great, but it’s still better [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, April 3, 2011
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The design Apple used for the 6th generation iPod Nano marked a significant departure from previous models. In many ways, the squarish iPod Nano became more like a Shuffle than an iPod Touch, both in terms of design and functionality. The screen was miniaturized, the clickwheel removed, and in its place, a multitouch screen and [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 28, 2010
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In a new report from iSuppli, the teardown experts estimate that the bill of materials for the new 8GB iPod Nano check in at $43.73
Continue reading...Thursday, September 2, 2010
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Going way back, Apple’s new iPod Nano commercial uses Cake’s “Short Skirt/Long Jacket” to showcase the wearability of the updated MP3 player. Decent commercial, but how can users use multitouch accurately when the Nano is attached to their clothing?!
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 1, 2010
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Apple today upgraded its entire iPod lineup, but the most drastic hardware change belonged to the newly revamped iPod Nano which has now abandoned the iconic clickwheel in favor of a multitouch screen. As anticipated, the new Nano now has more of a squarish form factor and is small enough to warrant a clip for [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, August 29, 2010
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With Apple’s special media event now just days away, the rumors regarding what type of products has waiting in the wings are starting to get louder. Yeah, we’re all expecting to see a revamped iPod Touch with both a rear and front facing camera, and there have, of course, been no shortage of rumors pertaining [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 26, 2010
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iLounge reports on new photos which purport to show a new case design for an upcoming iPod Nano. Earlier today, analyst Shaw Wu noted that the upcoming Nano would come equipped without a clickwheel. If the photos below are any indication, he may be onto something – especially in light of the fact that when [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 26, 2010
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AppleInsider reports: Rumors of a “significant redesign” of Apple’s iPod nano have surfaced, suggesting the company could introduce a device a smaller form and no click wheel at its event next week. Shaw Wu with Kaufman Bros. issued a note to investors Thursday in which he said one potential surprise from Apple could be a [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 4, 2010
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Not one to sit around and bask in the glow of previous successes, Apple appears to have a slew of new iOS devices prepped for release over the next few months. Citing a highly reliable source, iLounge earlier today posted a number of interesting nuggets pertaining to upcoming products Apple has in the pipeline. While iLounge’s track-record [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 29, 2009
A man in Kobe, Japan was recently arrested for attaching a new camera-equipped iPod Nano to his shoe, and attempting to film some upskirt footage with an unsuspecting 18 year old girl at an area bookstore. Unfortunately, similar stories are becoming the norm as technology devices continue to get smaller and smaller. Over the past [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, September 13, 2009
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs made a point at last weeks media event to compare the new video capable iPod Nano to the popular lineup of Flip Video Cameras. Now you might get a lot more bang for your buck with the Nano, but if you’re solely interested in shooting video, how do the two devices [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 11, 2009
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Check out this iPod Nano video footage of Bill Lonero straight shreddin’, courtesy of Jim Dalrymple of LoopInsight. Dalrymple notes that the new Nano “records video at 640 x 480 with millions of colors in the .mp4 H.264 format”, and at a framerate of 29.97 framers per second. And in case you’re curious, Dalrymple notes [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 11, 2009
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True to form, the folks at iFixIt wasted no time at all in ripping apart the new video camera enabled iPod Nano. Here’s what the front of the logic board looks like. Ohhhh…. ahhhh. And here’s what the entire thing looks like taken apart, bit by bit, and piece by piece. You can check out [...]
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
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