Grace Chng weighs in on Apple's latest iPod Nano.

I was on leave when Apple unveiled the new iPod Nano on Sept 9. It was only two days later in Melbourne that I managed to check the Web to see the latest Apple gizmos.

Wow! The iPod Nano is a beaut. The colours it came in – green, pink, orange, blue, silver – looked brilliant. What caught my attention was the pedometer. That would be cool since it could replace my Polar heart rate monitor when I'm travelling.

At an Apple store in downtown Melbourne, I wasn't disappointed with the new Nano. It is slim and will fit nicely in the small pocket of pair of running shorts. In addition to being an MP3 player, it is also a video camera, a pedometer and a radio.

A radio in an iPod? That sounds odd. This is the first iPod from Apple that has a radio tuner built in.

Apple has tried its best to shield users from radio ads, endless DJ chattering and music you don't like since it unveiled its first iPods in October 2001.

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