Originally published October 9 2005
Screen problems trouble iPod nano
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Complaints are springing up that the nano's color screen scratches too easily, and there are inexplicable cases of the screens cracking. Apple says the screen is made of the toughest polycarbonate.
OWNERS of the new iPod Nano --- which is selling at the rate of five a minute in one High Street chain of stores --- have complained to Apple after finding problems with the portable music player's screen.
But Apple's store in Regent Street, London, has received complaints that the colour screen scratches too easily.
And a website, www.flawedmusicplayer.com, has already been created by disgruntled purchasers urging Apple to recall the product, citing inexplicable cases of screens cracking.
He wrote: "The iPod was in my pocket on the way to work, and when I took it out to show it to all my friends, the LCD was cracked.
The screen is designed to display photos and album covers but can become distorted by scratches if the Nano is secreted in your keys-and-change pocket, buyers say.
Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive, demonstrated at the launch of the nano that the player was specifically designed to be placed in a jeans pocket.
Apple claims that its award-winning design team have produced a screen made of the toughest polycarbonate but stores will examine requests for returns of damaged players.
Dixons has been selling the new iPod, which weighs just 42g, at the rate of five a minute after a blanket television and print advertising campaign drumming home the "impossibly small" tagline.
The new �90 Nintendo DS console, which features dual screens and can be connected wirelessly to 16 other consoles, is likely to be another favourite.
Big-selling film tie-in games to feed the machines this Christmas will include Peter Jackson's King Kong, Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire and The Chronicles Of Narnia --- The Lion The Witch & The Wardrobe.
After numerous false starts, this Christmas is predicted to see a breakthrough for affordable 3G mobile phones with Sony Ericsson challenging the iPod with a range of Walkman handsets that can hold more than 100 songs.
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