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Die castings to make iPod Nano sing.


A redesign of Apple's popular mp3 player A digital music player that supports the MP3 format, which was the audio format that started a revolution in online music downloads and distribution. All portable music players, the iPod being the most popular, support MP3 along with one or more other audio formats. , the iPod Nano A flash-based digital music player from Apple, introduced in 2005. Like larger iPod models, the nano has a color screen. Although the nano name suggests ultra-small "nanotechnology," the iPod shuffle is actually smaller. See iPod. , has made the company's engineers turn to a cast aluminum casing, which had previously been used on the iPod Mini A hard disk-based digital music player from Apple. Introduced in 2004 and discontinued in 2005, the Mini was the first smaller model of the iPod. Although its hard disk capacity was limited to a maximum of 6GB, the Mini players were very popular. See iPod. .

The full metal construction of the gadget's outer body will see the face-lift, a press release said.

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 Apple Insider, light metal component vendors stand to benefit most from the launch of the new iPod product lines, judging by Morgan Stanley's original design manufacturer analysts.

"Among the iPod food chain companies in our universe, we think the light metal casing vendors will benefit the most as the revamped iPod launch is focusing more on stylish design than key feature set enhancements," analyst Ellen Tseng wrote in an extensive research report from overseas.

"Given that both the new iPod nano and iPod shuffle The smallest and most basic iPod, and the only iPod without a display screen. Designed for people who just want to press start and play their tunes sequentially or at random, the shuffle holds up to 240 songs in 1GB of flash memory.  leverage aluminum casing (either aluminum extrusion for iPod shuffle or aluminum diecasting for iPod nano), we expect this to benefit metal casing suppliers."
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Title Annotation:North America
Publication:Modern Casting
Date:Nov 1, 2006
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