What separates a Nano from a Shuffle.

Many things do. To name a few:

1) Nano provides gapless playback for music files that've been mastered that way. While a Shuffle, interestingly, does not.

2) Nano's capable of playing music even when it's connected to a computer; unlike a Shuffle.

3) Nano lets us search the music files (though not the pictures). A Shuffle, obviously, is no where near capable enough of performing such a task.

4) Nano sorts the music files into various playlists, categorized by album/artist/genre, etc. This greatly helps while looking for a particular song or artist. Backed up with this feature, one can feel bold enough to load up dozens of audio CDs - something I never felt like doing on my Shuffle.

5) Nano's got a Clock feature that displays time from all around the world (over a hundred cities from Asia to Europe, Atlantic to America, and more). Other features include stopwatch, calender, contacts, notes, and games.

Some obvious differences:

6) Nano's got an LCD color screen - unavailability of which (color or otherwise) distinctively separates a Shuffle from the rest in the iPod family.

7) While a Shuffle has to be bodily connected to a PC through USB for syncing, a Nano uses a thin white lead for that purpose.

8) This 2nd generation Nano came with new earphones - and as advertised, they do seem to fit rather snugly. The sound quality remains just as outstanding as the one resonated by its 1st generation counterpart.

-| AG.