iPod Nano gets new features

October 4, 2011, 12:41pm PDT | Length: 00:03:31
At Apple's headquarters, Apple's senior vice president of marketing, Philip Schiller, unveils new iPod Nano features, including a new multitouch icon screen, new sensors for runners, and the ability to wear the device as a watch. The Nano comes in 7 colors, in an 8GB version for $129 and a 16GB version for $149.

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iPod Nano gets new features

>>Good morning everyone. I'm really pleased to talk to you about the iPod. We started the iPod simply because we loved music and that hasn't stopped. We still love music and we're still making great iPods. In fact, its the best lineup we've ever made, the Shuffle, the nano, the iPod Touch. So I'd like to give you updates to two of those lines today. First, iPod nano. Just last year we introduced an all new iPod nano and it's a really fun way to enjoy your music wherever you are and customers love it for its compact design, is multi-touched display, its built-in volume buttons and clip so you can wear wherever you go. It has a pedometer and even a built-in FM radio. So we've added some updates this year. First with its multi-touched display, we decided to make it even easier to navigate and so now, you can display big beautiful icons for all of the features on it and just swipe between them with your finger to switch between the radio, or the clock, the fitness application; it's really simple. And fitness, of course, is one of the most popular uses for the nano. You can use it when you go to the gym, when you go on one of those walks. A lot of people like to run with their iPod nano so we've improved the fitness experience as well. Now, right out of the box for the iPod nano, you can go not only a walk but a run as well without adding extra sensors or devices, right out of the box. You go for your run, you come back, you plug your nano into your Mac or PC, and you can upload all the data about your run right up onto NikePlus' website and track all of your runs over time, look for achievements, compete with friends; it's a really great way to get fit. So that's one of the really great uses of an iPod nano. There's a really cool use that some people have created all of their own without us doing as they created a market of accessories like watchbands to make this watch you can wear that's iPod nano. It has all your music in it, and of course, it tells time and we thought that was really fun. We see this around the world. So with the updated nano, we've added in the software some new clock faces to make it fun for people who like to wear it as a watch. Why not, right? So here's one. This is a classic, great, beautiful watch with Roman numerals, or maybe you want a retro LED styled watch on your wrist. A watch with some really cool complications, or watch that's color-coordinated with the color nano you picked. And then this is really fun. We've worked with good partners at Disney on some characters you could have on your watch. So if you want a Mickey Mouse watch Cheers and applause you can now get one. Yes, the arms move to keep track with time or you can get a Minnie Mouse as well so it's really cool. The iPod nano comes in seven gorgeous colors. It's been priced for 8 gigabytes at 149 and 16 gigabytes at 179. Well now, the iPod nano just 149 for 16 gigs and 129 for 8 gigs, making it the most affordable nano we've ever had. So that nano is available today.

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RE: iPod Nano gets new features
roger.es 22nd Oct
SORRY...... MOTOROLA had this 1st.... Funny JUST came out with these features... MOTO ( GOOGLE) SUE..... I SWEAR, THIS sounds like a MOTOROLA RIP OFF: Motorola JUST said the same things 5 DAYS AGO!!!!
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karl_s@... 5th Oct
Where is the video????????????????????????????????????????
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oneblackened 17th Oct
I for one liked the old design with the big screen and click wheel.
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SORRY...... MOTOROLA had this 1st.... Funny JUST came out with these features... MOTO ( GOOGLE) SUE..... I SWEAR, THIS sounds like a MOTOROLA RIP OFF: Motorola JUST said the same things 5 DAYS AGO!!!!

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