Apple update iPod mini with iPod nano

New range of iPods to replace the iPod minis

7 September 2005 17:30 GMT / By Stuart Miles

Apple has also used today's event to launch a new line of iPod mini's called the iPod nano.

Jobs calls the iPod nano "an entirely new ground-up design, that also has 1000 songs in your pocket".

The white or black device features a colour display and can support photos, uses a grey click wheel to navigate, and is 80 percent smaller in volume than the original iPod - thinner than a number two pencil, said Jobs.

Compared to the iPod mini, the iPod nano is half the thickness and 62% smaller by volume. It uses a 30-pin dock connector, so the iPod nano plugs in to existing iPod accessories.

The iPod nano also features a new graphical clock, games, stopwatch and lap timer, and a screen lock that uses the click wheel like a combination lock.

"White is our signature color for the iPod ... but we decided to so a second color, and we tried it because it looked so cool", said Jobs, "so we're doing a black model as well".

The iPod nano ships today in 2GB and 4GB models for $199 and $249 respectively in America and in the UK the nano will cost £179 and £139.

Strangely Creative already have an MP3 player called the Nano Plus.