iPod nano (1st generation)
Discontinued 12 Sept 2006On sale for 370 days (1 year), from 7 Sept 2005.
Announced
7 Sept 2005
Released
7 Sept 2005
Discontinued
12 Sept 2006
Lifespan
370 days1 year
Launch price from
$199
- Category
- iPod nano
- Status
- Discontinued
- Apple support status
- Obsolete (Apple no longer services it)
- Release type
- Refresh of an existing model
- Replaced by
- iPod nano (2nd generation)
- Official Apple page
- No longer available on Apple’s website
- Tech specs
- Apple specs ↗
- Press release
- Apple Newsroom ↗
- More information
- iPod Nano on Wikipedia ↗
Notes
The iPod nano (1st generation) cost $199 and took the place of the iPod mini, which Apple stopped selling on the same day. Flash memory went in where the mini had kept a tiny hard disk, and that is how Apple got it down to a quarter of an inch thick, thinner than a pencil.
The click wheel carried over and a colour screen came with it, an inch and a half across, which the mini had never had. Photographs could go on an iPod this small for the first time, and a charge lasted around 14 hours.
Every ordinary iPod before this one had been white, so a black iPod nano (1st generation) in a shop window was something new. The U2 Special Edition had been black since 2004, but it sat outside the normal range.
It went on sale in 2GB and 4GB versions at $199 and $249, and a 1GB model followed in February 2006 at $149. Steve Jobs called it the biggest revolution since the original iPod.
The screens scratched very easily and some of them cracked, which owners took Apple to court over. The case settled in 2009, with a $22.5 million fund paying $25 to anyone who had bought a nano without a case.
It was announced on 7 September 2005 at the event Apple trailed with the line ‘1,000 songs in your pocket changed everything. Here we go again.’ It went on sale worldwide the same day, priced from $199.
Read about the iPod mini (2nd generation) that it replaced.
iPod nano (7th generation, Mid 2015)
Discontinued
2017 discontinued 27 Jul27 Jul 2017
iPod nano (7th generation)
Discontinued
2015 discontinued 15 Jul15 Jul 2015
iPod nano (6th generation)
Discontinued
2012 discontinued 12 Sept12 Sept 2012
iPod nano (5th generation)
Discontinued
2010 discontinued 1 Sept1 Sept 2010
iPod nano (4th generation)
Discontinued
2009 discontinued 9 Sept9 Sept 2009
iPod nano (3rd generation)
Discontinued
2008 discontinued 9 Sept9 Sept 2008
iPod nano release history
- 2017
-
27 Jul 2017
iPod nano (7th generation, Mid 2015)
- ↑ about 2 years later
- 2015
-
15 Jul 2015
iPod nano (7th generation, Mid 2015)
iPod nano (7th generation)
- ↑ 2 years, 9 months later
- 2012
-
Oct 2012
iPod nano (7th generation)
-
12 Sept 2012
iPod nano (6th generation)
- ↑ about 2 years later
- 2010
-
7 Sept 2010
iPod nano (6th generation)
-
1 Sept 2010
iPod nano (5th generation)
- ↑ about 1 year later
- 2009
-
9 Sept 2009
iPod nano (5th generation)
iPod nano (4th generation)
- ↑ about 1 year later
- 2008
-
9 Sept 2008
iPod nano (4th generation)
iPod nano (3rd generation)
- ↑ about 1 year later
- 2007
-
5 Sept 2007
iPod nano (3rd generation)
iPod nano (2nd generation)
- ↑ about 1 year later
- 2006
-
12 Sept 2006
iPod nano (2nd generation)
iPod nano (1st generation)
- ↑ about 1 year later
- 2005
-
7 Sept 2005
iPod nano (1st generation)