iPod nano (5th generation)
Discontinued 1 Sept 2010On sale for 357 days (1 year), from 9 Sept 2009.
Announced
9 Sept 2009
Released
9 Sept 2009
Discontinued
1 Sept 2010
Lifespan
357 days1 year
Launch price from
$149
- Category
- iPod nano
- Status
- Discontinued
- Apple support status
- Obsolete (Apple no longer services it)
- Release type
- Refresh of an existing model
- Previous model
- iPod nano (4th generation)
- Replaced by
- iPod nano (6th 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 (5th generation) cost $149 and had a video camera on the back, which no iPod had carried before. It shot at 640 by 480 with a set of effects built in, among them one that made everything look like a thermal image, though it could not take a still photograph at all.
A microphone and a speaker went in with it, so a video could be played back on the nano itself rather than only on a computer. The screen grew from two inches to 2.2 and the case was polished rather than matte, while the size and weight stayed where they were.
An FM radio arrived, which could be paused for up to fifteen minutes and could tag a song to buy later. A pedometer counted steps and worked out calories burned, and VoiceOver would read out the track and artist through the headphones.
Nine colours were offered again, though two of them were harder to get. Yellow and the red special edition were sold only by Apple itself, while the other seven went to resellers as well. The 16GB iPod nano (5th generation) cost $179, twenty dollars less than the same size had cost a year before.
It was announced on 9 September 2009 at Apple’s ‘It’s Only Rock and Roll’ event. It went on sale worldwide the same day, priced from $149.
Read about the iPod nano (4th generation) that came before.
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 (4th generation)
Discontinued
2009 discontinued 9 Sept9 Sept 2009
iPod nano (3rd generation)
Discontinued
2008 discontinued 9 Sept9 Sept 2008
iPod nano (2nd generation)
Discontinued
2007 discontinued 5 Sept5 Sept 2007
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)