Louise von Randow: Thinking ICT

iPod Nano Hi-jinks

September 30th, 2007

Can anyone explain how we have the good fortune to possess an ipod nano that survived a trip through both the washing machine and dryer?

How does that happen!?

The new iPods are worth looking at on the Apple website. The new nano looks kind of funny in the pictures but is actually quite a delightful After Dinner Mint shape in reality. Quite pleasing to hold.

In other quite-pleasing-to-hold Apple news, I now know a couple of people who have iPhones here. They have been, er, altered to work on the Vodafone network in NZ. The iPhone works just as described and they are beautiful. I wonder if the user experience is a bit like the iPod, i.e. if you are already a Mac user it may be a little bit easier to navigate than if you had been a PC user? Anyway, I want one. Except I want a second-gen one because the camera really is a bit poor. Worse than my 3.5 year old Sony Ericcson.

The iPhone works like having a small child or a cute dog. Suddenly all sorts of attention is garnered, even from known technophobes. No matter where you are, if you pull out an iPhone you’ll instantly have people want to touch it, see how it works, ooh and ahh over it. In this week alone I have seen children under 12 gasp in admiration at the iPhone (great marketing by Apple if the fuss reaches this audience on the other side of the world where the phone isn’t even for sale!) and a gentleman of about 70 years transfixed by using Google Maps over wireless. That’s amazing buzz.

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