These days if you look around its amazing how many people have earphones hanging down as they make their way along listening to whatever takes there fancy. For me it’s great as it’s become a socially acceptable way of just being able to ignore people whenever you like. Is that aterrible thing to say?

My weapon of choice is an iPod Nano (second-generation) 8GB which i stll think is the best one to date. It’s great to just slip away into a different place away from the constant noise and conversations you can’t be bothered or have no interest in listening too.

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Just about a year after Steve Jobs first wowed the tech press (and much of the general public) with the ultrathin sleekness of the first iPod Nano, Apple has unleashed Nano number two into the world. Aside from a drastically different, iPod Mini-like casing and much-improved battery life, the new Nano isn’t much altered from its predecessor.

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Apple has done away with the 1GB version in favour of a $380 8GB model and adjusted the pricing on the 2GB and 4GB capacities down to $219 and $299, respectively. With prices like these, SanDisk — maker of the video-playing, 8GB e280 — had better watch its back.

For a full detailed review go to CNET

Source: www.cnet.com

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Apple owns a large chunk of the portable MP3 player market, and as such it’s taken a rather predictable course with the fourth generation of its hard-drive based player. There’s nothing really revolutionary with the iPod this time around, although Apple has finally started doing something about the unit’s battery life. It’s far too early to say if they’ve done enough to mitigate user’s concerns over the tendency of iPod batteries to lose large chunks of capacity over a relatively short period of time — that’s something we’ll find out in six months or so once the first units have been properly battered and bruised. Based on our testing, however, at least those who wanted more playback life  from their pocket music centres should be well satisfied.

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Source: www.cnet.com

Tags: Apple, iPod