Ipod nano

I recently purchased the Ipod nano 8 gb model, green in color.  I have had several ipods and currently have an Iphone but I never had any of the smaller models.  First it is a lot thinner then I thought it would be, the pictures don't do it justice.  Some people were worried that because of the curved screen glare would be a problem, so far that hasn't been a problem for me. ( I will admit I haven't tried to watch something out in bright sunlight. )  When I heard about that you could shuffle to another song by shaking the nano, I thought it was a stupid tick, then I found myself using it all the time.  The genius option is good in theroy, but needs more time to work since it is partially dependent of people using it.  This also got me thinking about the number of different type of portable players I have had in the last 10 years.  In 1998 I still had a cassette player, the most you could put on a cassette was a total of 180 minutes (90 on each side) and the quality was pretty bad.  The tape would often jam and you would find your self trying wind it back in with a pencil.  Then I brought the sony mini disc. player, which came out about the same time as the first mp3 player, I did like it, however again you had the problem of having to carry around little disc along with the player.  Plus the mp3 player ended up winning the format war.  I then purchased a Creative Zen, my first mp3 player.  It worked fine, but the menu was clunky and hard to navigate.  When I saw my first ipod I fell in love, the one thing the Apple is good at is design of both the physical product, but also the menu. It was easy to use and navigate, I also purchased the 2nd generation Ipod and Iphone.  This is the first nanos I have purchase and I do like it, I am just worried I am going to lose it somewhere.  One of the interesting features I found was the voice annoucement.  It is under setting, if you turn it on it will annouce what menu you are on, what song is playing etc...It not something you want to use all the time but if you are blind or are unable to look at the nano its a great option.
               
My history of portable audio players from kim landwehr on Vimeo.