I have received my black 160GB iPod classic ($349) I ordered from Apple online. I have put it thru its paces the last few days including a long 6-plus hours of drive time in my mini-van yesterday. I also bought a 8GB iPod nano in black on Wednesday at the local Apple Store. I saw it and could not resist it.

With both these units next to each other, it looks like Apple should have said “Honey I Shrunk the iPod” as in this generation of new iPods there is a true feature by feature compatibility between Apple’s hard drive full sized iPod and the flash based smaller thinner iPod nano. No longer is the iPod nano a smaller, cheaper and neutered version of the iPod. The nano now has the same feature set as the larger sized iPod classic.

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