Flip Easily Beats New Video iPod Nano in Side-by-Side Test

Lots of buzz this week about the introduction of the iPod Nano with a video camera. While the new Apple device seems like a cool idea, providing simple video gathering, the images are not nearly as good as the Flip SD, Chris Albrecht shows with a side-by-side video test/demo.

Watching the demo, the Nano video looks like a decent camera phone. It seems to perform poorly with indoor lighting.

The prices for both devices are around $150. Of course the Nano holds an as extraordinary amount of music and video.

But for an easy to use, high quality video camera only, the Flip is tough to beat.

See several more comparisons with the iPod Nano and other small video devices in this report on Macworld.

When I'm on the go and grab video with pocket-sized device, I have been using my digital camera, a Canon PowerShot SD790, which is going for around $160 now.

I shot this video (below) of the Google Earth Car tooling around Prague late last month.

Andy Plesser, Managing Editor

Posted on 09/12/2009 at 4:19 PM
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Posted by: mlb jerseys | Sunday, July 10, 2011 at 11:31 PM

Hi,
it's just video. Silly DVICE, not doing there homework. Seriously though, that's a big typo. The lack of still camera is rather obnoxious, poor quality or not, and I got my hopes up for one second, thinking I had missed something somewhere.

Posted by: sdhc memory card | Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 04:03 AM

Hello Guy's,
a built in video camera so that you can record videos and share them to YouTube, Facebook, Mobile Me or Email. Since I don’t own a Flip, I thought well maybe this might be a good option. I tried out the device and within a few minutes I realized that this is not for me

Posted by: r4i software | Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 02:10 AM

pple should just buy Pure Digital Technologies, LLC.
Their product line looks like Apple products and Apple could eventually extend their product line and provide more video options for their user base by integrating it into everything from the Iphone to the nano. Just think about an IPhone with the video quality of the Flip Mino HD.

Posted by: Korean Ginseng | Monday, November 30, 2009 at 07:45 AM

I have the Flip Mino sd and it's terrific. The audio capability is stunning, quite frankly. I've even used if for pro assignment work combined with stills, (as linked). I gather the new Kodak equivalent have external audio capability. This should be Flip's next addition, I think.

Posted by: Paul Treacy | Monday, September 14, 2009 at 04:36 AM

Apple's primary market is still music and video. But with this addition I can gather they have their sites set on the mobile camera market as well. With the advent of Youtube and instant online fame why wouldn't apple want their customers packing a camera too. Unless you fork out the dough for an iphone which has a camera this might be a cheaper and smarter way to get their camera technology into the market.

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Posted by: Trevor | Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 09:18 AM