The iPod Nano-The best Just Got Smaller

I've been living with my Nano since my birthday, so here are some observations.

1. It's the bomb!
2. Battery life is much greater for the type of listening I do.
3. It's slower to download than Firewire.
4. The new color screen is much easier to see in different lighting conditions.
5. It's perfect for the gym.

The older hard drive versions were great but there was a problem for folks like me that listen to live jam music. The hard drives basically feed a memory buffer so for a regular four minute song, that is fine. The drive spins up, fills the buffer with digital music and then spins down. It doesn't spin up again until the buffer begins to empty and feeds it the next song. The problem is I might have a 45 minute "You Enjoy Myself" from a live Phish show or that killer 35 minute "Shakedown Street" from Merriweather in '85. My hard drive was constantly spinning and battery life was not the 10 hrs advertised. The new one is totally flash memory based, thus much longer battery life. Oh yeah, and it fits in an Orbits box.