News for Thursday, 14 September 2006

Hereafter are some photos of the iPod nano 8GB.
Apple has completely modified the design and presentation of the box itself. No more CD in the box, it has to be as small as possible as the iPod nano inside.


Inside the tick plastic box, one will find the new iPod nano, its earphone (slightly smaller than the previous model), a small user guide, a USB cable as well as the Dock adaptor.
But looking closer, one will quickly realize that this new iPod nano has been deeply modified when compared to the previous model.




The new iPod nano looks much more like a mini iPod mini, with soft edges. Materials have been changed, making this new model much more shock- and scratch resistant than the previous one.
The display seems to have deeper contrast while remaining of the same size.
Despite doubling storage capacity, Apple has deeply modified the new iPod nano in order to correct complains and criticisms published concerning the first model.
We will test the new iPod nano next week more in details.

Hitachi has achieved to significantly increase the data density of its new PRM disks (perpendicular recording). They plan to make 1TB 3.5'' disks available as early as the beginning of 2007. In 2009, disks of the same size will reportedly contain 2TB of data, while 400GB 2.5'' disks and 200GB 1.8'' ones will also be coming out.
Don't even try to guess what the hell we'll do with all that storage. Just remember how the 10GB of the Titanium G4 were considered huge at the time. And that was only 5 years ago... [greg]Now that's just the size of my partition for downloads :-D