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Apple iPod nano 5th Gen 8GB video review

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The 5th gen iPod nano is inarguably Apple's best yet. It's still more expensive than its peers, but it's got more style than any rival and the addition of a video camera gives it more than a modicum of substance too. Read full review

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9/10

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By Hugo Jobling
Reviewed 16 September 2009
Updated 26 May 2011

Price as reviewed

£115.00

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Apple iPod nano 5th Gen 8GB details

Value
9/10
Usability
10/10
Sound Quality
7/10
Overall
9/10

Price as reviewed

£115.00

Manufacturer

Apple

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12:01 AM on 16 September, 2009

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My 16GB Silver 5G nano arrived this morning. Only ordered it Sunday night from the Apple Store - now that is service!

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1:59 AM on 16 September, 2009

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I've got a 4G nano and I don't know how this can score a 9 for value. A whole year after I got mine the same capacity is virtually the same price. Wow, you get a camera! Meanwhile if you bought a touch you'd have more capacity for the same price.

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2:45 AM on 16 September, 2009

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wow, I'm so tripped out right now... listening to Bliss.. of all songs, what a coincidence XD


anyways, I bought a 4th gen nano last October but I do have my eye on a green 5th gen. It's not the video camera that's drawing me in, though, it's the FM reception. My previous mp3 player (Sansa View) had a radio tuner... I was disappointed that the last nano didn't. And if I do get one, hopefully the click wheel will not be "crunchy" like my current nano's is.... I do wish there were higher gig capacities for the nano; I have so much music, can't fit half of it on my nano at once. But I guess one does have to make sacrifices here and there ;p

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4:59 AM on 16 September, 2009

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Still disappointed by the poor sound quality, my old Samsung YP K3 is still better in that perspective. If Apple improved that, it would be perfect.

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Seeing the dissection photos i am pretty much sure that the camera is where it is because it was simply the only place where it could fit.

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nice review. now i want to go watch "District 9" now...

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I know the review said it's adequate, and I know this is a mini-consolidated device...





...but why oh why can't Apple focus a bit more on audio quality and get the sound to be as good as the interface? It's the one thing that put me off getting an iPod Touch, and having compared a Cowon S9 to the output from an iPhone on a pair of Shures...it just sounded a bit flat. (And also an OLED screen on the iPhone please Mr Jobs!)

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8:28 AM on 16 September, 2009

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Why a video camera? It seems like a stretch to me. Couldn't they come up with anything usefully new related to the iPod functionality?

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@Hugo: "...barely indistinguishable from its predecessor." So at first glance it looks completely different, but on closer inspection it is in fact exactly the same? Freaky!!

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iain: Yup, that's definitely exactly what I meant to write...

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