Dominating the digital music player field, the Apple iPod nano has, since being launched in 2001, become a very popular and handy gadget that every music lover would love to lay his hands on. With its iPod shuffle, Apple has reaped handsome benefits that cheap flash-based players having smaller and smaller hard drives have made possible and its 46 percent share of the flash-based player market bears testimony to its success in this particular sphere of digital music.

Though a lot of people had been buying the iPod shuffle, the demand was still not enough because of the fact that it did not have a screen and the controls were not sophisticated enough. So, Apple began to look for a solution to this problem and it finally came in the form of the iPod nano, which was a marriage of the tiny size of the shuffle and the flexibility of the standard iPod.

So, the Apple iPod nano now comes with color and is miniature-sized to boot, though there is a small price to pay in the form of reduced storage - 2GB as compared to 4GB of the standard iPod - but the pricing is attractive. In addition, the Apple iPod nano is aesthetically packaged and it also comes with a "commemorative" packaging which is excessively top notch and a very delightful experience as well.

The Apple iPod nano is extremely thin and will easily fit the smallest pocket, even the coin pocket in ladies' jeans and comes with all the accessories which include the standard white headphones, a USB cable and a dock adaptor.

Marvel of Engineering

The iPod nano is extremely small and weighs next to nothing - in fact, less than a pocketful of change and once you put it in your pocket you tend to forget its presence easily. Its color capability makes the music experience look just as good as it sounds and it is possible to view album art at the same time as you listen to the music. It is also possible to browse more than 20,000 photos as well as steer your way through the menu, which is very simple to use.

There are also many handy accessories to attach to the iPod nano, which will help create the ideal music experience for people who are always on the move, especially with their powerful headphones and classy armbands that can be worn even when jogging. The click wheel on an iPod nano places your music right beneath your thumb and all you need to do to access different functions like play, rewind, fast forward, pause or access the menu is to place your thumb on the button, while adjusting the volume is achieved by moving your thumb over a touch-sensitive surface. When all is said and done, the iPod nano is a great testament to engineering that is clean, a design that is cutting edge, and efficiency that is technology at its best.