Apple unveiled today a new iPod nano

Apple unveiled today a new iPod nano featuring a tall and very thin oval shaped design. The new iPod nano 4G features an accelerometer sensor like the iPhone and a new advanced user interface

Meet a musical Genius.

With just a few clicks, the new Genius feature finds the songs on your iPod nano that go great together and makes a Genius Playlist for you.

Rock and roll over.

Thanks to the built-in accelerometer, you can rotate iPod nano to flip through album art with Cover Flow. Watch movies and TV shows in widescreen. And view photos in either portrait or landscape.

Shake to shuffle.

Just give iPod nano a shake and it shuffles to a different song in your music library.

Curved ahead of the curve.

iPod nano now comes in nine vibrant colors and a new curved aluminum and glass design. The crisp, bright picture makes watching movies and TV shows amazing.

Video

H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; H.264 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 3.0 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats

Overall the iPod nano 4G looks like a great little music and video player with some nice features and UI tricks like shaking for shuffle mode. Measurements of the iPod nano 4G are 3.6x1.5x0.24inches and the weight is 1.3 ounces. The battery life is up to 24 hours when fully charged and the video playback time is up to 4 hours when fully charged.

The iPod nano 4G comes in 8GB ($149) and 16GB ($199) storage configurations and in 9 colors.