Nano, nano!

No, no. It's not Mork.


It's the the latest iPod from Apple: the iPod nano.


The iPod nano will replace the iPod mini. Thinner than a No. 2 pencil, 80% smaller in volume than the original iPod, 62% smaller by volume of the iPod mini.



Other comparisons: 68%: iRiver, 69%: Creative Zen, 58%: Creative neon, 59%: Samsung player, and 67%: Sony player. 66% smaller than the Motorola RAZR. Weighs 82 grams, USB 2.0, and 13 hour battery life. Comes in two colours: white and black. 4GB at $249 and 2GB at $199. Dock ($29), lanyard headphone ($39), arm bands ($29), and nanotubes ($29 for five colours).



Same pin with the iPod connector. Coloured screen, photos, clocks, games, calendar, lap timer, and stop watch. Screen lock is available, too.

The iPod nano is said to be a home run or will be the highest volume iPod yet.

Some websites already are taking a closer look. EzGear has already released cases for the iPod nano.

There has been 22 miilion iPods sold, 6 milion in last quarter alone. On July, iPod has 74% of the digital music player market.

What are the other announcements from the San Francisco special music event?

Motorola ROKR is finally out!

There's no arguing that the iPod nano will rock but the ROKR probably won't. Some say that the ROKR doesn't have enough "Apple in it", and some question the battery life.

All of the Harry Potter audiobooks are available in iTMS. You can also buy al the Harry Potter books and a collector's iPod 20GB. The iPod has a laser engraving of Hogwarts' crest at the back.

Madonna has made available her 16 albums on iTMS.

Quicktime stream of the Apple Special Event.

Apple has released iTunes 5 and iPod updater 2005-09-06 which includes updates for the iPod nano.