Apple iPod nano 2 GB Silver (2nd Generation) (Discontinued by Manufacturer)

iPod arrived late thanks to blunders by Amazon, shipping 2day order via UPS Ground and UPS, forgetting to load the package to delivery truck. I never liked Apple anyway. Never had any Apple device. Never like their policies of using proprietary devices and software not compatible with anything else in the market. But I love gadgets and work with computer hardware so I love modern technology. I hated Apple purely on other people's views. So finally when my daughter told me only thing she wanted this Christmas is an Apple iPod I was mad. But I love my daughter so I decided to swallow my pride and order an iPod thinking I will be able to return it quickly when she compare it with the MP3 player she already have. Last Christmas I gave her best non Apple MP3 player I could find. iPod arrived today and I wanted to just make sure it work so I opened it. It was a mistake!It was a long time since I experienced this feeling of love at first sight and it was an incredible feeling. I just stared at the package for a long time. The colors (or the absence of it), the shape and size is breathtaking (yes I am talking about the box, and I have not yet opened it). Then I open it WOW, every thing is so logical and easy from how you open the box to presentation and color selection of every component in it including printed words and beauty of absence of lengthy instructions but preserving essence of order and logic of natural progression of events that lead from one to another building up on each to guide you seamlessly is breathtaking. It is a perfect blend of pure art and advance science to create minimalist but highly functional device design to educated and empower you instead of being your slave. It defines a new life style that changes your habits and expectations. I have no feeling to fully describe it. Yes I know it has no FM radio but Podcast, it has no multiple file format support but iTunes, it has no voice recorder but touch-wheel. It does not give you the past but take you to the future. It is long time I have felt this way and I thank Apple for creating a device that touched my soul and brought out the hidden passion in me I thought lost long time ago.

I was a slow convert to the iPods. I had previously bought one flash memory mp3 player from Creative. While that device worked OK, it only had 256 MB which severely cramped the amount of music I could take with me. I liked the Creative player OK. It was easy to use, and sounded great. However, there was one major pain in the [...] about it: low battery life. In order to get the device so small, Creative opted to use a single AAA battery, and I was always having to change them, eventually breaking the little door that slid over the battery compartment. Their design team would have done better if they had opted to use a AA battery instead for a much longer battery life, and the device would not have been much larger. Anyway, enough about the Creative. My review is about the iPod Nano 2GB Silver (2nd Gen).The iPod is hands down the BEST music device for the money you can buy. Great battery life, easy to use interface, and plain sexy. But just as important as the device itself, is the software you use on your computer to interface with the player. In this regard, iTunes is so freakin' good, I've been recommending it to my friends that don't even have iPods. One caveat: on some older PC's or cheaper ones (Dell Optiplex where I work), I get a burn error of "4450" when I try to burn certain playlists to CD - and no one has a fix or a suggestion as to why. Some blogs said it was media related, but I use branded HP, TDK, Maxell, and Sony CD-Rs, and still get the error, so I suspect it may be related to the motherboard chip sets or drivers. I've never had the problem at home.Some friends asked why I didn't get the 4 or 8 GB Nano instead of the 2 GB. Well, compared to my 256 MB previous player, 2 GB was a heck of a lot more. And I got this player to be treated a bit rough - I use it for working out, traveling on the road, jogging, and other activities. So to be honest, I didn't want to spend too much on a player only to kill it in the first two years of its life. Now that I'm so satisfied with the Nano, I may spring for a hard drive based video iPod later on to carry nearly all of my CD collection around. But really, 2 GB is plenty of music for me (around 25 CDs), and it is easy to sync and change the music content whenever you want.The only thing I could ask for to improve the iPod Nano would be wireless recharging, which I'm sure is in the works for the future sometime (see Popular Science for April).So the bottom line is, if you want an easy to use player that doesn't have to be babied like a hard disk based one, then the iPod Nano is your baby.A worthy competitor might be the Creative Nano Plus, but once again, the use of a single AAA battery, and the lack of support for .m4a (.mp4) files turned me against the Creative and steered me toward the iPod Nano.The Digital Rights Management system used by iTunes wasn't really a factor in my purchase, as I rarely buy anything from iTunes, but instead, just rip my own CDs. In any event, you could always burn a CD from your bought playlists and re-rip them to get rid of the DRM if you want. You could even use CD-RW's and reuse them, so you don't fill up the local landfill with burned CDs.

Apple's done it again! I bought one used for $50 bucks online and I haven't stopped listening to it! The 2GB is perfect for people like me who only have around 300 songs and can't afford the 3th gen. Nano or the 4th gen. The podcast feature is nifty and the photo slideshow was a surprising touch. The battery life is HUGE! I can't beleive that it can go for hours on end with no stopping. The shape is very clean looking and appealing, and it looks far better then my sister's 4GB iPod Classic. The earphone quality is excellent. The album artwork was a great addition, although it glitches a tiny bit(but, again, mine was used). The only letdown I can think of is it can't play videos and 2GB is probably not enough for people these days. But I can't afford videos anyways and I have only 300 songs on my computer so it doesn't matter to me. If you look hard enough you can get one in excellent shape for around $70 bucks online. If your one of those people with 2,000 songs and who can afford buying stuff on iTunes all the time, this iPod isn't for you. However, if your a low income family and just want to listen to a few songs a day, this is a must have. Yay for Apple!!!

had one for about 3 months before it got stolen. worked great esily portable can fit in a pocket.bad partspin wheel is WAAAYYYY to sensitive it takes about 1/25th a turn to move a spot down so if your not moving the wheel with it under a magnafying glass youll go way over.battery life lasts a few hours. and you HAVE to use I tunes. i have never used a worse media maker than itunes it tries to make things esier by doing everything it thinks youd do and it fails BAD.get a old outdated version of itunes liek a 2003 one. and youll be good.

Ich bin schlicht begeistert, dass ich noch einmal ein gut funktionierendes ipod kaufen konnte, und zwar mit 4 GB (das wurde vom Verkäufer rechtzeitig korrigiert). Immer noch finde ich es komfortabler, 4 Stunden im IC mit diesem Winzling Podcasts zu hören als mit dem iphone.