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It's good when you're running/exercising in general and can hold more than the shuffle . It's lighter than the iPhone/iPod touch.

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...and you don't feel as scared to drop it? If you let go of a nano, it swings on the headphones. If you let go of an iTouch, it rips the headphones off you and crashes to the ground.

The nano has a spring loaded clip on the back so you don't drop it.

The nano is for listening to music while exercising.

Although I just checked the product announcement, it appears they removed the clip! Probably want you to buy some armband or clip sold separately now.

I have a 4th Gen Nano and it has no clip. I don't think there has ever been a clip on this model. The Shuffle has the clip.

Exactly.

Now that the Nano has bluetooth (and podcasts - podrunner is still quite good), it'll make an even greater running iPod - though I feel fine with my iPhone in my running short pockets.

Plus isn't this the only iPod with a FM radio? Again key market is folks working out - many gyms have audio broadcast on internal FM channels for their TV sets.

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