Video Shot With iPod Nano: Our First Clips

By Dan Nosowitz, 5:45 PM on Wed Sep 9 2009, 93,096 views (Edit, to draft, Slurp)

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New iPod Nano in hand, we promptly tested the video camera and the crazy video-record filters. They're fun, but the camera itself is positioned awkwardly.

We found out that the camera's unfortunate placement (on the lower left of the back, if you're holding it normally) is due to there not being enough space to cram it in under the screen. The accelerometer adjusts if you want to hold it some other way, but the natural position for taking video is made harder by the location of the lens.

Why can't the Nano take still photography? Let's hear it from Steve Jobs himself, via the New York Times:

The sensors for doing video are fairly thin. The sensors for doing a still camera, at much higher pixel resolution - and we'd really like to have autofocus - they are just way too thick to ever fit inside the Nano.