Indoors, under natural light, the nano failed to pick up detail and stuck with its blue tendencies. Outdoors, the nano’s video was darker and bluer than the Flip’s. I compared the nano’s video to that shot by an original Flip Ultra pocket camcorder. But it’s not as good as video shot by an iPhone 3GS ( ), which isn’t all that good, much less the video shot by most of today’s dedicated pocket camcorders. For its intended purpose-shooting videos of your friends and family and posting the results up on YouTube-the nano’s video is acceptable. Steve Jobs was careful not to compare the quality of the nano’s video to that of today’s pocket camcorders, and rightly so. The effects are permanent, however-they are added as you shoot and can’t be removed. If you’ve ever used the video effects in Apple’s Photo Booth or iChat, you have a good idea of what these things do. Among the effects you’ll find are the descriptively named Sepia, Black & White, Film Grain, Cyborg, Kaleido, Twirl, and Stretch. Doing so produces a screen that contains 15 video effects (plus a Normal setting). Just navigate to the viewfinder screen and press and hold the Center button. You can also add effects to video as you shoot it. For those concerned about privacy as it relates to video taken on the sly, this could be an issue. Unlike most pocket camcorders, it does not display a red recording light on the front of the “camera” nor make a noise when it starts recording. Press Center again and the nano starts recording. Just choose Video Camera from the nano’s main menu, press the Center button, and the nano’s display becomes a viewfinder. Using the camera couldn’t be much easier-though it’s not quite as easy as pushing the Flip’s Big Red Button. The new video camera is located on the bottom left of the back of the iPod nano.
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The idea being that, like the Flip camcorders, the 5G nano provides you with an ultra portable video camera that’s incredibly easy to operate and is likely to be used in situations where you don’t care a great deal about the quality of what you shoot. When Steve Jobs introduced the 5G iPod nano he compared it directly to Pure Digital’s popular $149 Flip Ultra standard definition pocket camcorder. The feature that has garnered the greatest attention is the nano’s video camera. Its sound quality is comparable to that of the iPod touch-very tinny and useful only for previewing songs or, if you’re just this side of desperate, listening to the audio that accompanies the video you’ve just shot. The other difference you’ll notice is that if you press Play without connecting your headphones, the 5G nano will play audio through a new, internal speaker. And the bottom of the newest nano has the headphone port on the left of the Dock connector (as you look at the display) rather than on the right side (its location on the 4G nano). The obvious difference between the backs of the two models is the camera lens and microphone unit found on the bottom-left of the 5G nano. The 5G nano’s display (left) is longer than the 4G nano’s display (right). Its position and size make it no more difficult to use than the previous nano. To accommodate the longer screen, Apple moved the clickwheel down a bit as well as made it a little smaller. The difference may not sound like much, but when you compare the two, you see that Apple has taken advantage of the extra space by enlarging the fonts and placing a little more space between menu items (as well as placing more items on the screen, in some cases). What creates this illusion is the 5G’s 2.2-inch (diagonal) display-0.2 inches taller than the screen found on the 4G nano. Place them on a table and the illusion disappears. Yet, hold the two side-by-side and the 5G iPod appears to be taller than its sibling. The dimensions of the 5G nano are identical to that of its predecessor, the fourth-generation (4G) iPod nano ( ). Additionally, the $149 (8GB) and $179 (16GB) nanos come in an array of nine bright colors: silver, black, purple, blue, green, orange, yellow, pink and Red. Those features include a video camera and microphone mounted on the back of the iPod, an FM radio with buffering and iTunes Tagging capabilities, a larger screen, a built-in speaker, expanded accessibility support, and a pedometer for keeping track of your footsteps. A highly capable and affordable performer in its previous two iterations, the fifth-generation (5G) iPod nano adds the kind of useful and entertaining features that will compel someone on your holiday list to sidle up and wheedle, “You know what I’d really like this year?” Apple’s smallest screen-bearing iPod, the iPod nano, has evolved in impressive fashion.
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