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This is especially for all the iPod Nano lovers and owners. Now you can extend the functionality of your Nano by transforming it into your daily alarm. It’s time to break your sleep and get off your bed listening to your favourite music track. The Groovetoons iPod Alarm Clock makes this happen.

It’s a trendy alarm clock designed by Cygnett for the iPod Nano. Groovetoons not only holds the Nano, but also charges it. So, you don’t have to worry about low battery power before going to bed. Just hook up your iPod Nano to it and relax. Groovetoons is optimised to match the modern lifestyle. The Cygnett GrooveToons features a snooze function and has a volume adjustment button which lets you to decide the intensity of the alarm. The snooze function offers you a little extra time to sleep. With Groovetoons you have complete freedom to choose the way you wake up. You can wake up to morning blues or just break your hard sleep with the heavy rock. As soon as you hook up your Nano to Groovetoons it automatically displays the clock and alarm on the iPod screen. The best part of the Groovetoons is how its simple and easy to use, yet powerful and trendy. You can use the 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation iPod Nano with it.

Apple iPods are one of the most beautiful, adored and famous audio/video players in the world. The company tries to improve the performance of their iPods at each and every step. This is the reason that we have seen several generations of iPods one after another.

Every new generation offers the enhanced iPods to music enthusiasts. From the very beginning Apple is seriously concerned about the quality standards for their products. People have always believed in this brand but there was a time when the research had proved that the users of the iPods are becoming deaf because of listening to music at high volumes. The company immediately responded to this and created new safe iPods which automatically adjust their volume between a safe listening ranges. This made the people very happy and they regained the faith in the iPods. But recently in Japan the iPod Nano disappointed the users very badly. Two first generation Nano (MA099 and MA005) emitted sparks while they were put on charge.

The lithium-ion of these players got suddenly overheated and soon the device was wrapped in flames which made it unusable and left it in a really bad shape. However, the company claims that these two were first generation iPods which in very rare cases can become too hot during charging but the second and third generation iPod Nano are completely safe to use. Apple blames the particular supplier for the faulty lithium-ion batteries.

The Apple iPod Nano was the first to introduce video playback to the iPod family. It was made to offer music freaks both audio and video entertainment at an affordable price, not to mention compact size. The Nano lets you enjoy TV shows, movies, video podcasts, and much more anytime, anywhere.

The media player comes with a bright 2 inch (320-by-240-pixel) liquid crystal display which delivers true to life video effects and enhanced photo quality. Ergonomically, this music machine is perfect to carry with you anywhere you want. It has got smooth edges and curves with anodized aluminum and polished stainless steel body. In fact, Nano is just 6.5 mm thin. It’s hard to get any slimmer than that. The Apple iPod nano 8 GB represents the next generation and twice as much capacity as the previous generation. Need more? Ok, Nano comes loaded with additional applications and utilities such as podcasts, games, audio books, calendar, contacts, screen lock and the world clock etc. It has got a beautiful round menu controller which can be used to easily access all the functions. Like its sibling the iPod Shuffle, Nano also supports shuffling of tracks and skip-free playback. Check out some important specifications of Nano below.

Apple iPod Nano tech specs:

• Supported Audio Codecs: AAC, Protected AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV.
• Supported Video Codecs: H.264, .m4v, .mp4, and .mov
• Storage Capacity: 4GB and 8GB
• Operating System: Mac OS X v10.4.9 or later/ Windows Vista or Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 2 or later.
• Supplied Accessories: Hi quality earphones, USB 2.0 cable and dock adapter.
• Colors: Pink, White, Blue, Red, Green and Black