While shopping for accessories for my new Nano last Saturday night, I stumbled on a knockoff on the new Nano. The look of it is almost identical to the real one and it even got a pink one which looks almost identical to my red one. And it even comes with more choices of memory configurations than Apple offers. It has sizes of 1GB, 2GB, 4GB and 8GB.
I think you will agree with me after watching my “in Action” videos below that the 3rd Gen Nano is the best ultra-portable entertainment device on the market now. It gives you hours of entertainment in the form of music, videos, photos and games in an unbelievably small package. Not only do the functions perform smoothly and flawlessly, their implementations are elegant and intuitive. But before getting on with the “in Action” videos, let’s see how the music video of Feist’s 1234 looks on my Nano:
It was just before 15:30 when the courier delivered to me my personalized Apple 3rd Gen Red iPod Nano. What a way to kill a Saturday afternoon!
I bought a Canto-pop CD last month. Its back cover tries to convey the message that its content is protected and would only allow transfer of them to WMA format within certain restrictions by using a combination of English and graphics that is almost cryptic. It also says “Playability on all devices cannot be fully guaranteed” in various languages except Chinese. I didn’t care because it is published by EMI, so there should not be any problems like XCP.
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Until three weeks ago, my entire collection of digital music had been ripped from CDs bought from brick and mortar shops. When I had an iPod, I wanted to buy music via iTunes, but couldn’t because I don’t own a credit card with a United States billing address. Having made my first digital music purchase in Hong Kong on Eolasia.com last month, I am now ready to embrace the digital music experience to its fullest.
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