Nano 6G

I definitely agree.  Although I thought it was hard to swallow that kind of money for the watered down player, but the sound is about as good as I've heard in an ipod.  Love to run with mine, just a tine little clip. 

I still have a major gripe with the battery life.  A lot of people may be apple haters, but they have typically put some useful batteries in their products.  This one is horrendous.  I was setting up genius playlists and I burned through a battery from full to zero in a little over an hour! 

But, the sound is good and it is exactly the type player I need for workouts, so it's still a keeper for me. 

So what is the deal with the battery?  Its supposed to have like 24 hours- but a lot of people are having issues like you mentioned above.  Is it just that you can't turn it off?  I must admit this player is appealing to me but a 1 hour battery is a deal breaker for sure.

The battery only seems to drain really fast on me when I have the screen on.  If you spend a lot of time scrolling through the menus, changing songs often, or looking at pictures, the battery life may be a problem for you.  Listening to music with the screen off, I can go 2 hours and the battery is still 80-90% full.

Well in fairness, the battery ran out in just over an hour because I had it on continuously because I was setting up genius playlists.  I think if you listen to music without changing songs it would probably last 8 or 9 hours.  The battery is just dreadful when you turn it on too much.  It will drain very quickly.  But other than that it's a hell of a little player.
 

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Originally Posted by Pangaea 

So what is the deal with the battery?  Its supposed to have like 24 hours- but a lot of people are having issues like you mentioned above.  Is it just that you can't turn it off?  I must admit this player is appealing to me but a 1 hour battery is a deal breaker for sure.

Still, 8-9 hours is hardly the 24 hours they are advertising.

Battery and power³

• Built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery
•  Up to 24 hours of music playback when fully charged

Very true.  And probably did not have a headphone plugged in.  Still, most Apple products live up to the billing that they advertise with concern to battery life.  I would just definitely tell everyone that reads this to temper your expectations when it comes to the battery.  There's no chance you get 24 hours out of this thing.  But if you can live with that, it's a good player.  Good sound, great FM tuner. 

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Originally Posted by Young Spade 

Well you know they recorded that with like... 128kbs mp3 max with absolutely no screen at a low volume with maybe the screen being on for 20 seconds or so; they always do things like that to boost the numbers.

Hey Young Spade, when you wear it as a watch what do you use as the strap?

i got one of these for my nano 6g

http://lunatik.com/

I've been wanting a 6G. The battery life is not a big concern for me. I'm actually very impressed with the batteries so far from my various models. I have a 2G shuffle that's 4(or 5??) years old and it's been through years of scorching heat,freezing cold and even got wet at the beach one time and it still goes for over 8~9 hours.

I'm looking at B&H Photo for $170 w/ free shipping.(16GB)

I haven't timed mine, but I've used it everyday for two weeks(working out for one hour each day) before I had to recharge it.  On the other side of the coin, I drained it from a full charge after using the FM tuner for 5 hours straight.  All in all though, it is my favorite DAP.  Thanks to the small size I actually have it with me a lot more often than any of my other DAPs so I end up listening to a lot more music.