Crickey! A New iPod!

We — and everybody else with an Internet connection, it seems — were checking out Apple's new iPod nano online today while listening to our existing model, a dumpy old 20GB fourth-generation model, and we asked it, "Why can't you be thinner than a pencil and have a color display and fit in our jeans watch pocket?" As a response, it faithfully continued playing the song we were listening to, and so we felt bad and said "Awww, little iPod, we were just kidding, we love you just the way you are." But in our heart was a burning lust for the new nano. And, again, we're not the only one: "Must. Not. Buy. One. Have. To. Save. Up." It replaces the iPod Mini, which is fine with this blogger: "Just when you thought the iPod mini couldn’t get any cuter…" And if you thought it was creepy or inappropriate the way we talked to our iPod, check out this post, which includes references an existing iPod Photo named "Sophie". Sample passage: "Sophie was like a flirt teasing me to own her. The nano, on the other hand, left my jaw dropping and mouth agape." Oh yes.

Students of blogs and the web should note that iLounge, the web's preeminent iPod blog/site, has apparently been so deluged with people seeking its take on the new device that the site has basically melted down... browsers pointed there have spun fruitlessly since this morning. Now that's buzz.

Posted by Philip Ewing at September 8, 2005 03:55 PM

Category: The Gadget Scene