The iPods

Went to Apple store today on George St today finally, to put my hands on those new iPods. First thing I headed to was the new iPod Nano.

iPod Nano
Orange, nice colour! Put on my hand, feels very light, even lighter than the first generation. However, I am starting to notice the bright reflective surface! Both the screen, and the body itself are just too shiny. I accidently touched the top edge of the Nano, oh it's sharp. In fact I've never recall they ever made the nano or any other iPods that have sharp edges. I just don't like it. Although navigating the menu items are quite smooth and quite a nice interface. The other thing is, the games that comes with it, one of the game can actually detect the orientation of the iPod nano, hence adjusting the GUI from landscape to potrait, or vice versa. Pretty cool.

+ Very quick user interface
+ Intelligent GUI
+ Slim factor form
+ Attractive design
+ Lightweight

- Screen and the surface of the body too reflective
- Edges too sharp

iPod Touch
Gotta admit this iPod Touch is better than the first generation (which I am currently using everyday). For the fact that it has a built-in speaker, so I can use the device even if I forgot to carry my headphone around. I don't quite like the speaker sound dial on the side, it's not so easy to press, though it is still much better than purely using the GUI to control the sound. Nice design, not much to complain about, but tell me why when iPhone 3G is costing similar in prices and can actually surf the Internet on the go using 3G, how many ppl would still be buying the wifi-based iPod Touch that is not that much cheaper??

iPod Classic
Tried the new iPod Classic 120GB. A bit tempting to get one for the fact that it's also an external HDD. Oh wait.. 120GB for $300+ ??? Well perhaps back a few years ago when portable HDDs are still quite expensive, it wouldn't matter much, but now I could have a much bigger capacity HDD, with a lot less money. Also I found the user interface quite laggy. I do think eventually Apple will stop the iPod Classic line.

iPod Shuffle
Nice colours. But where's orange!?

Conclusion
Gotta say this refresh I found slightly disappointing. But I hope that is only because they are focusing on bringing the newer better Macbooks next month! :D