Digital Home Thoughts: The Inquirer Reviews the Second-Gen Nano

"So overall, I’m very happy with it. There are some things about iPods that annoy me, but they are so pleasant to use and so well-built that I’d gladly pay well over the price of a Taiwanese Windows Media player, even though most of my music library is stored in WMA format! It’s a fantastic technical achievement to make something so small with such excellent functionality, and a testament to Apple’s British-led design team that they can still create something with such a warm fuzzy factor, despite the iPod’s ubiquity. I really think that Microsoft is going to have a very hard time competing through a Zune range, based on what I know so far, even if it includes Zune mobile phones, as is likely to be the case. iPod remains the benchmark for all PMPs."



The Inquirer gives the G2 Nano a pretty favorable review, despite their initial bias towards (against?) all things Apple. I have to agree, the Nano is indeed a fantastic piece of hardware, though still a little overpriced to me. And comparing the Nano to the upcoming Zune? Two totally different beasts they are. I look at it from the other direction: The Nano is the same [rumored] price as the Zune, which holds 30GB, plays videos and hase wireless built-in. Not really a fair comparison if you ask me. :wink: If you haven't tired of Nano reviews yet, give this one a read.