Portable music players have always been fairly expensive. If you are in the market to buy an iPod, or a similar MP3 player product, a lot of questions come to mind. If you are like me, one of those questions will be "when will I use this the most?" I believe one of the most common answers to this question is "during exercise." Simply put, people like to be able to carry their favorite music around with them when they exercise. When choosing a portable music player, this is important to remember, as you will be wanting to bring along the device that provides you with the most convenience and ease-of-use for this application.
One of the things that separates the Nano series iPod players from the larger, more tradition "classic" players is the type of storage that is being used. Full-sized iPod devices use a traditional hard drive to hold a large amount of data. Hard drives, like compact discs, require moving parts. This, by its very nature, allows for more possibilities of mechanical failure when you have the player attached to the active, moving body of an athlete. Aside from this, hard drives have the potential to skip just like a compact disc if they are jostled or jarred around.
The smaller Nano series uses a less conventional "flash" memory. Storage is fully electronic, and requires no moving parts to swap songs or to play. Not only does this allow the Nano to be slimmer and more compact (albeit with substantially less storage capacity) but it eliminates the shortcomings of more traditional storage mediums. What this amounts to is even if you have a Nano strapped to your arm during a brisk morning run, its performance is going to remain consistent throughout. This combined with the more practical size makes the iPod Nano 4 a competitive choice in modern portable music storage.
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