What's inside the new iPod Nano?

by Julian Prokaza
on Thu 10 Sep 2009 Comment

As you may have heard, Apple announced a number of new iPods yesterday and perhaps the most interesting was the new Nano. It’s essentially the same as the old Nano, but Apple has added a video camera and is pitching it as an alternative to compact video cameras from the likes of Flip, Creative and others.

The Nano's camera is video-only and can’t take stills. Apple CEO Steve Jobs reckons that high resolution still-image CCD sensors aren’t thin enough to fit into the Nano’s wafer-thin frame, where as lower-quality video sensors are — and the Nano can only capture 640 x 480 video, too. There’s no auto-focus (as on the iPhone 3GS) for that same reason.

Thankfully, we don’t have to take Job’s word for it — tech teardown site iFixit has already started work on dismantling the new iPod Nano and has posted a photo gallery showing it in all its stripped-down glory.

[ iFixIt]

Originally published on www.mobilecomputermag.co.uk, now incorporated into Broadband Genie

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