Yup, it’s OLD. I just found it under a pile of crap last week. It was dead, but it charged up just great. I had to look up how to master the little flywheel on the front of the unit–to turn it off among other things, because it had been so long since I used it.
Then I reloaded about 7.5 GB worth of music onto it. The battery seems to be holding the charge just fine, which is very impressive for a five year old gadget, and more than I can say for my two year old, 2nd generation Kindle.
Yes, this is more of a novelty than a main ‘go to’ device for music. But on longer runs, the light weight of this is very intriguing, although the current Nano, which doubles as a watch, is quite lovely. It also is just fine as my garage system for those weekend yard work regimens.
This little baby holds about 2000 songs–probably about 2/3 the size of your typical tightly formatted commercial radio station music inventory. Good enough given that I’m awaiting a 64 GB iPhone4S.
I’m impressed.
