It uses Apple's huge database of iTunes owners music libraries and playlists to work out what songs go well together in a playlist. The new Genius feature however is really quite clever. Like the Cover Flow view, where you can flip through album artwork to browse, Shake to shuffle is really just a gimmick you use to impress your non-iPod nano owning friends, rather than something really useful you'll use much. We were also disappointed that you can't change the function of the Shake – we'd have found it more useful if it had simply skipped to the next track in a playlist rather than shuffle amongst your whole music library each time, especially since the introduction of Genius (more on that later) means everybody will be using playlists more often than before.Īs it stands there's no way to change what a Shake does in the iPod's settings and Steve Jobs' legendary reality distortion field isn't going to work on us here. It's a neat little trick if you're sat at your desk listening to your iPod, but we found it less useful while walking with the iPod in your pocket, and also draws attention to you in public places where you might not want to advertise the fact that you've got an iPod.Ī discreet button on the earphone cord, which features on the iPhone, is a more practical solution. While you're playing a song you simply give the iPod nano a meaningful shake and it shuffles to a different song in your music library.Īnd yes, before the joggers amongst you start getting irate, you can turn this feature off if you like, or you can simply switch the Hold switch on and the Shake feature is disabled.
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It's neat, and Apple has added a number of new games to the iTunes Store, including Spore Origins, but the games on the nano with its smaller screen aren't a patch on what's possible on its older brother, the iPod touch.Ī more practical benefit of the accelerometer is the new 'Shake to shuffle' feature. The accelerometer can also be used in iPod games, and you can try it out in the included Maze, in which you have to guild a ball through a maze by tilting the iPod. Videos also play in landscape mode by default, which suits them well. Turn the iPod on its side while you're playing music and the display automatically changes to Cover View mode, so you can flick through your album covers using the click wheel. It essentially means that the iPod can work out which way up it is. The accelerometer first debuted in the iPhone and iPod touch, and this is the first time it's been available in the iPod nano. The big new features in this outing of the nano are the built-in accelerometer, which finds expression mainly in the new games and a new Shake to Shuffle feature, and Genius playlists, which are also a feature of the required iTunes 8 software. We won't dwell too much on the standard iPod features, such as playing music, audio books, podcasts, video and displaying photos, since everybody knows iPods do these things very well, so instead let's focus on the new stuff.
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