Early Returns: Nano Good, ROKR Bad

Although most masses have had a mere three microsecond to test Apple ’s mana from heaven , and they are making snap judgments faster than you may say ‘ Blink by Malcolm Gladwell . ’ The one somebody who got to drop more than his just plowshare of prison term with either of the gadget is the cooky demon himself , that dandy papa bear of gadgetry , Walt Mossberg . He dropped his nano , repeatedly , from the height of around three pes . ( Most diarist do n’t even get to drop theirs from one foot . I enquire if he has to grease one’s palms it now ? ) And , like everyone else , he screw the Nano . The concensus is that it is so modest , yet so brawny . You would think that newsbreak drive had never been formulate andMoore ’s Lawhad never been proven . Our pals at iLounge hipped us to the “ Universal Dock Adapter , ” a plastic plateful that give up the nano to dock with essentially any twist ( this is similar to the feature article already found on speaker from Altec Lansing , Bose , iHome and JBL ) .

This will make it even easier for companies to make more iPod accoutrement than the one thousand that , literally , exist already . The iLoungers also noted that the nano ’s new stop watch and circuit timer oeuvre well — a uncovering made while they were sprint from the convention center yelling ‘ I got one ! I get one ! ’ with Apple corporate certificate in hot pursuit .

There are only a few complaint thus far : The nano is not compatible with vocalisation transcription devices , there is no ‘ straight - to - nano ’ photo transferee capabilities , and the product name is all lowercase . I hate when they draw that crap .

Mission Impossible 8 Underwater

From the day it was bear , the ROKR was problem . Apple is n’t selling it — don’t even have a photo of the much - anticipate speech sound up on the website . That change tight ! Steve Jobs even had some bother getting it to solve the right way on level — Jobs say he hit the untimely button , but people in the know say that the feature that lets you resume play after a telephone set call does n’t work properly . What ’s more , the iTunes node has been surgically connected to the Motorola V - serial interface and the scars are showing . The screen is n’t wide or colorful enough to do the music store justice . The orange earphone shown in the Cingular advertizing were n’t the phone used for today ’s unveiling . There is no support for Bluetooth headphone . But hey , give thanks good all the rumors of a 25 - birdsong capacity , 3 chiliad over - the - air downloads and $ 2 per song charges bear witness fictive .

iPod Nano Combines Beauty , Function[WSJ ]

Appe Unveils iPod nano[iLounge ]

Lesdilley