http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/ Engadget Comments for Keepin' it real fake, Part LXXXVI: iPod nano rip-off does double duty as camera http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/Oct 5th 2007 10:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/
http://www.createthefuturecontest.com/pages/view/entriesdetail.html?entryID=365]]>Oct 5th 2007 10:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/
90x60x3.5mm?? 3.5mm?!?! WITH a Camera?!?!

The nano is 69.8x52.3x6.5mm!

Half the thickness! And 20% small overall!

What happened to Apple's innovation?]]>Oct 5th 2007 11:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/
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http://www.mp4nation.com/products/index.php?PID=mp8303]]>Oct 6th 2007 2:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/
http://www.createthefuturecontest.com/pages/view/entriesdetail.html?entryID=286]]>Oct 7th 2007 3:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/Oct 5th 2007 10:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/Oct 5th 2007 10:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/so, well, basically ipod nano 3-rd gen is a rip-off of this device.]]>Oct 6th 2007 6:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/Oct 5th 2007 10:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/Oct 5th 2007 10:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/
lol BigBird, I'm actually not trolling on this one. This really does have more features! FM radio, more formats, camera even! C'mon that's not bad!]]>Oct 5th 2007 10:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/Oct 5th 2007 10:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/
but they deffinelty wouldn't complain.

so i agree, on paper and not reality, it trumps the real thing.]]>Oct 5th 2007 10:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/
You're right. They know their fan base. I have been looking for more features like FM etc. I feel inclined to write troll comments about certain Apple products and features that I feel are missing but even I have grown tired of it.. for now.

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Good design = pure focus.

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FM just isn't going to *ever* be in the ipod roadmap. Ever. ]]>Oct 5th 2007 10:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/Oct 5th 2007 11:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/
It's a good thing the iPod follows that rule. You know, it focuses entirely on music. Oh, and pictures. Oh, and videos. Oh, and podcasts. Oh, and games.

Eh, but not FM radio. Oh no, it's gotta focus on that music.]]>Oct 6th 2007 2:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/
as for why a user would want exapandable memory, it's easy, take a 4gb iphone (not nano) someone who bought that is going to be pretty sick of it a year from now. versus if it had an sd slot they could just throw in 16gb for (20 total) for an extra hundred. extending the life of the unit.

exactly what the consumer wants and apple doesn't want. elementary my dear troll.]]>Oct 6th 2007 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/
Why doesn't the iPod line have an FM Radio yet?
Almost every generic MP3/Media Player can pick up FM Radio.
It's not that I would use it, just that its kind of an obvious absence.]]>Oct 5th 2007 10:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/Oct 5th 2007 10:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/Oct 5th 2007 10:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/
You do I have a point. I use my car radio when my iPod dies.
Like I said -- Its not so much I --want-- it or --need-- it,
its just that its obviously missing.

Also in regards to the SD card comments up a ways:
Expandable memory is a good thing. If you can't upgrade
the size of the hard drive/flash memory in your device,
shouldn't you be able to augment it with SD/variable data storage mediums?

(I know I plugged this device a while back but the Archos 605 does that too.)

Apple may know it its target market, or it maybe the
power of minimalism and simplicity meeting together.
Love or hate Apple, the sales figures speak, it is one
of the most popular media playing devices on the market.

Think that covers it.]]>Oct 5th 2007 10:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/Oct 6th 2007 4:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/Oct 5th 2007 10:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/Oct 5th 2007 10:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/Oct 5th 2007 10:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/Oct 5th 2007 10:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/Oct 5th 2007 10:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/Oct 5th 2007 11:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://ue-technology.manufacturer.globalsources.com/si/6008824849429/pdtl/Flash-MP3/1002711710/MP4-Players.htm
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Can they arrest me for having an iPod nano knock off?]]>Oct 5th 2007 11:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/Oct 6th 2007 12:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/
For the most part - THEY SUCK.

The software is terrible to use cause its written in Chinese and has poor English instructions. You need to go online to download AMV converter software because the thing won't play typical WMA files.

It lacks a hard drive so you are stuck using crappy SD cards.

Everything about it feels and looks cheap.

It can play NES game roms but there is no good control scheme when you've gotta use buttons on its side as A and B buttons.]]>Oct 6th 2007 12:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/
When someone makes one that has a great camera and doesn't loose any of the quality, then I will start looking.]]>Oct 6th 2007 1:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/
I ask the Engadget writers, just how does one rip off a "generic digital camera"? Doesn't that mean that any product that incorporates a so-so quality camera *IS* a rip off?

It's nice that you call everything coming out of China a ripoff, but, ask yourself what do most generic pmp's look like? A slap with a screen and some buttons, so are they all rip offs too?

]]>Oct 6th 2007 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/This is just the practice stage, the giant is waking up.
]]>Oct 6th 2007 1:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/Oct 6th 2007 3:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/Oct 6th 2007 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/Come on...I've heard this idea of limited ways to make a device, but Engadget has been dead on about most of these fakes.

Granted...they all are rectangular with screens and buttons, but all the major brands have distinguished themselves somehow.

There are thousands of ways to configure a device to make it different than the competitor's.

The *only* reason to make a device this look (not function) this similar is so that chumps will buy them either thinking that they are the real deal, or because they want to look like they have the real thing.

Either way, the company that makes the knock-offs aren't succeeding on their own, they are riding the success of another company that did all the market research and design work.

I don't so much care that they are ripping off Apple as I care that they are ripping anyone off. If there was a Sansa or a Creative knockoff I would say the same thing. The only reason that there aren't ripoffs of those is because they don't have the recognition that the apple products do. Im not being xenophobic either. If an American or European company produced this trash they would be sued, and roundly criticized by everyone on this blog. It just seems that China is growing a long track record of this kind of business.]]>Oct 6th 2007 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/What's ironc is we DL media all day long then jump allover someone when they knock off IP that we care about...

I feel like a hypocrite :(
]]>Oct 6th 2007 2:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/That's a first.]]>Oct 6th 2007 2:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/
here in india we get our market flooded with chinese knock-offs of anything and everything. any resonably popular gadget will have a bunch of knock-offs, sometimes being sold alongside the original.

just because Engadget has a chinese sibling doesnt mean engadget has to source articles from it every now and then. please stick with real news.]]>Oct 6th 2007 2:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/Oct 6th 2007 3:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/
so engadget needs to stick with real, meaningful news. understand?]]>Oct 7th 2007 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/Oct 6th 2007 3:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lxxxvi-ipod-nano-rip-off-does-double/archos>apple
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ripoff>apple]]>Oct 6th 2007 4:05AM