Beware of the New iPod Nano
Apple just announced the new version of iPod Touch, iPod Nano and iTunes 8. These new products, as announced on 9-9-08, all include a new features called "Genius", which is a new technology from Apple to create playlists based on the song you're listening to and the music in your library in an easy way.The fourth-generation iPod Nano is only 0.2 inches thick, the thinnest player Apple has ever made. The screen size, however, is kept as previous model. In addition a new accelerometer is built into Nano to enable resizing photos and menus based on the orientation of the player which was available on iPhone and iPod Touch previous models.
The new cool feature "Shake to shuffle", which senses when you shake the player and automatically enters into the shuffle mode. The "Shake to shuffle" feature also uses accelerometer technology.The iPod Nano uses general-purpose integrated circuits (IC) instead of smaller, low-cost custom-developed chips, possibly to reduce time-to-market. This design, however, increases the number of electronic components and increases the cost. It uses PortalPlayer PP5021C "system on a chip" with dual embedded 80 MHz ARM 7TDMI processors. It also uses "surface mount technology" which was employed in mobile phones in 2005.
Many recent reports indicates that iPod has some fundamental electronic design flaws that causes flame or sparks when being charged: For example, there was a report that in Australia, an iPod Nano flamed up while being charged on a PC. Apple is investigating these reports and does not have any conclusive response yet.
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Bruce Atlasi is a professional computer engineer, skilled in telecomm and datacomm technologies and architecture. He has diverse working experience with many telecomm start-ups and fortune 100 companies, including Cisco Systems, IBM, and Siemens.
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