( Update: We misread the spec sheet - you need to add a dongle for Nike+ on the nano.
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Apple's getting seriously beaten to the punch here by Android - just check out the Sony Ericsson LiveView, which almost every Engadget editor is dying to own. We'd love to see the nano connect to the iPhone and act as a secondary display for notifications - how cool would it be to check your watch and quickly see who's calling, scan your text messages and triage email subject lines? You could even add in some basic control functionality for music and video playback, and we'd kill to be able to switch a phone to mute just by tapping on our watch.
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There's Nike+ support in this thing, which means it's likely just a firmware update away from full-on Bluetooth, and that makes things very interesting.Ship with a handful of classy standards - digital, a couple analog styles, maybe an ironic calculator face - and sell the rest for 99 cents in the iTunes store. At the bare minimum, Apple should offer multiple clock themes.Do we have ideas on how better to make use of it? Oh, do we have ideas. None of these issues are the end of the world - most regular watches don't do more than tell the time either, and the wake button delay isn't intolerable - but you definitely start to wonder why you have a multitouch LCD on your wrist if all you're doing with it is looking at an analog clock face. Besides, if you're the type of person who's wearing an iPod nano as a watch, well, we're going to go out on a limb and say you have a smartphone, and that's almost certainly a better music playback experience than the nano. Not only do you have to make sure your headphone cord is long enough for your height to avoid yanking the buds right out of your ears, but you also have to be ever-vigilant that you're not tangling things with every move of your hands. Of course, you can always plug in headphones and listen to music, but it turns out having a wire connecting your head to your wrist isn't as ideal as you might imagine. We'd love to see something like the Nokia N8's AMOLED screen tech that dimly self-illuminates with zero power draw to display a clock while asleep used here - it feels like a perfect solution. And here's the biggest problem: you can't just glance at your wrist and check the time! The screen is completely dark when it's asleep, so you have to reach over and hit the wake button with your other hand to see the time, and worst of all, hitting the wake button doesn't light the screen up instantly - there's a significant and noticeable delay of over half a second before the clock is displayed. Turns out you're going to be a dork with an iPod on your wrist no matter what, because displaying the time when the wake switch is pressed is pretty much the only watch-type function you're going to find here beyond the stopwatch and timer. You also get a choice between white and black clock face backgrounds, and. Without this setting flipped on, you're just a dork with an iPod on your wrist. Next, head into Settings / Date & Time and turn on "Time On Wake," which pops open the clockface when you hit the wake button instead of dropping you right into the homescreen. Of course, it's a bit huge - we tend to favor large watches, so we didn't think it was a problem, but if you have dainty wrists it might look a little silly. We didn't have any problems, though - the nano's clip is definitely strong enough to survive normal use. Just make sure you can tighten things down so the nano doesn't slide around - the white band we used didn't have any adjustments so the nano felt a bit precarious.
That's actually pretty easy - not only are there a million accessory manufacturers out there willing to sell you a nano-specific band, you can also clip it onto pretty much any bigger watchband you can find. But hold up - yes, we thought the new nano was a great little media player when we first reviewed it, but why hasn't anyone talked about what it's like to wear one as your watch? Is replacing your current timepiece with the nano's 1.5-inch 240 x 240 multitouch display actually a good idea? We took the nerd-bullet for you and wore one for a week to find out - read on!įirst things first: you've got to get the nano on a band. IPod nano watchbands - they're everywhere! Seriously, ever since Steve Jobs said that an unnamed Apple board member jokingly planned to wear the new nano as a watch, we've seen all shapes and sizes of wristbands designed to put the diminutive media player on your wrist, ranging from the super-basic to the super-silly to the super-amazing.
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