6th-generation iPod nano unboxing

The sixth-generation iPod nano is one of three music players Apple showed off at its recent Apple event in California.

The latest iPod nano is dramatically different from its immediate predecessor. Gone are the camera, speaker, and microphone, which Apple found were rarely used. Gone too is more or less everything except the screen, which is smaller by some 25 per cent.

In place of these features it supports multitouch, allowing you to change the orientation of the screen by planting two fingers on it and twisting them, and it has a handy clip on the back, like an iPod shuffle.

Pocket Gamer's unit has just arrived - here are its first moments.

Packaged like only Apple can, the iPod nano looks like a prop from a film made in 2030 and set in 3010. The screen is a sticker.

To look at that lid, you'd never think it fits on the box. But it does. That's the miracle of perspective.

The label looks great, but there's a problem with it: it covers the screen. It has to go.

The volume controls and the screen-lock button, as well as a profile view of the clip in action. The new iPod nano really is very similar to the iPod shuffle.

See?

Here's the other edge of the iPod nano, featuring a 30 pin connector and a 3.5mm headphone jack.

Snug.

That which is done can never be undone.

Here's the iPod nano (centre) between the fourth-generation iPod touch (left) and the new fourth-generation iPod shuffle (right).

Here's the iPod nano (left) next to the new iPod shuffle (middle) and a 50p piece (right).

And no, I'm not showing off: that really is my 50p.