Also on Wednesday, Apple announced a new iPod, the iPod Nano: “1,000 songs in your pocket and impossibly small,” Jobs said. It’s “thinner than a No. 2 pencil,” he said to oohs and aahs from the audience. “The iPod Nano is 80 percent smaller than the original iPod.”
iPod Nano comes in two models–the 4GB iPod nano holds up to 1,000 songs and the 2GB iPod Nano holds up to 500 songs. They cost about $249 and $199, respectively.
“iPod Nano is the biggest revolution since the original iPod,” Jobs added. “iPod nano is a full-featured iPod in an impossibly small size, and it’s going to change the rules for the entire portable music market.”
The iPod Nano features the same 30-pin dock connector as the iPod and iPod Mini, allowing it to work with a wide range of more than 1,000 accessories developed for iPod, including home stereo speakers and iPod car adapters.
— Excerpted from an article in The New York Times
Update September 8: Walter Mossberg at The Wall Street Journal just loves the new iPod Nano.