The battery in my iPod Nano is finally on its last legs. I have tried to work out how old it is but I can’t locate the purchase receipt.
It is a green 7th generation model and they came out towards the end of 2012. So it would be about 6/7 years old as I bought it soon after that model was released. Since then it has been used every day. However, for the last couple of months, it will only hold a charge for about 2 hours of use.
I think the Nano is a great device, small, lightweight, easy to use and ideal for listening to music, podcasts etc, while exercising. As soon as I heard that Apple was discontinuing them I bought a spare but now it looks like that iTunes will be replaced by separate Apps.
I have some music on it but mainly listen to Podcasts and this requires regular updating via iTunes. I really hope that the Podcast App (at least) will be available on Windows and provide for syncing with the iPod Nano, otherwise I will have to reconsider my options.
There are a number of replacements for iTunes on Windows but finding a program that will easily sync with an Apple device appears to be a problem.
Depending on future support for the Nano, I might consider the latest iPod Touch, but it will be hard to forget about the money wasted on the “spare” Nano. So, I will also think about an alternative MP3 player. The Sony NW-WS413, which is about half the price of the much bigger iPod Touch, looks like it is ideal for what I want.
UPDATE – iTUNES See my next post 6th June 2019.