ipod nano

Well, the prophets were right: No App-let (Ta-pple, Ta-cintosh, whatever) today. The real news: Steve's back, the iPod nano is trying to kill Pure Digital's Flip pocket camcorder, and iTunes lets you copy files within your home network.

Leander over at Cult of Mac has been busy doing some iPod sleuthing, and stumbled upon plenty of Chinese-made cases for the forthcoming iPod updates. What did he find? Cameras!

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Information on this is still sketchy, but Engadget has published a photo of a purported iPod nano clone (at left). For perspective, remember that Apple just announced the new fatty nano on September 5th. As PopSci reported in its September cover story, "Meet the iClone", Chinese manufacturers have became virtuosos of near-instantaneous imitation. But if this report proves true, the Nano clone appeared insanely fast even by their frenetic standards. —Sean Captain

Though some of the lucky 525,000 to procure an iPhone have been concerned with getting the device activated, a brave few decided to crack it open instead. Several sites pulled the phone apart, but the gadget surgeons at ifixit.com offer a detailed photo diary of their dissection. Among the observations: The phone has 16 screws compared to the iPod Nano's 3. Which means it's approximately 5.3 times as cool.—Gregory Mone

(Image Credit: ifixit.com)