Apple iPod Nano review – CNET

The Good The Apple iPod Nano has a sleek aluminum design, FM radio, Bluetooth and long battery life.

The Bad With no Wi-Fi, you’re stuck syncing music via USB from a PC or Mac running iTunes. It doesn’t work with Apple Music subscriptions, and the low-res screen is tiny.

The Bottom Line The iPod Nano is an aging music player that’s hurt by its outdated reliance on iTunes and lack of subscription music compatibility.

Yes, the iPod Nano still exists. It’s one of the last MP3 players standing in Apple’s lineup, next to the gym-friendly, small-as-a-button iPod Shuffle and the basically-an-iPhone-with-no-cell-service iPod Touch.

The current seventh-generation Nano was introduced way back in 2012, but still lists for $150 (£tk, AU$tk). Even with Apple’s built-in pricing premium, it feels like it should cost about 40 percent less at this point.

On the surface, there’s a lot to like here. The Nano is like a shrunken-down iPhone with 16GB of storage, a touchscreen and a little home button. And while it doesn’t have a full app store, it does offer far more than music: you can also listen to podcasts, watch videos and scroll through photos. There’s an FM radio and Nike+ fitness tracking too, and the Nano offers Bluetooth support for streaming audio to all of the latest wireless speakers and headphones. (One snag: that radio requires wired headphones, which double as the antenna.) It’s battery also averaged well over a day in our CNET Lab battery test. Can you say that about your phone?