THE latest update to the Apple iPod nano, for which Bleeding Edge foolishly paid too much at a Melbourne Airport duty free shop, is not universally popular.

There are good reasons for that criticism. This Nano conspicuously lacks some of the more popular features of its predecessors. It has lost its speaker,
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The updated Nano is made of aluminium and glass,
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Even with the price reduced to $149 for the 8GB model and $169 for 16GB, the Nano is not particularly good value and, having paid more than that in our momentary mind storm at the duty free counter, we probably weren’t in the right frame of mind when we started to use it.

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Then it dawned on us that we’d overlooked the obvious: in the past couple of years, the iPod world has been split into distinct segments. If your main interest was music the original attraction of the iPod you’d buy a Classic. If you were attracted to video,
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At that point, we realised the Nano made sense only as a mobile exercise companion. And with the latest version, Apple’s designers had built in essential functions,
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Because you can have a good idea while out exercising, the Nano’s voice memo feature, available if you have Apple’s earphone with remote and microphone or another equivalent,
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While iTunes does have some irritating deficiencies as a podcatcher the software you use to manage podcasts it is probably the most convenient, provided you are careful. If you have a large library of podcasts and they tend to multiply quite quickly you have to be careful to connect your iPod and click on its icon in iTunes and set it up to sync only checked songs and videos. You also have to be ruthless about deleting them once you’ve heard them.

We’d be interested in hearing about your favourite podcasts and podcatcher programs.

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