Expandable memory

Im actually glad they don't have a hard drive in them. I prefer the ruggedness of the flash, because I know I will be dropping this thing from time to time.

Knowing Apple, they will maintain price points but keep adding features and capabilities. Then they'll create lower-end models with fewer features. Again, just like iPod.

Yes, but they are touting this as the iPOD+phone. It is hardly an iPOD with 4/8/12 GB memory. True, it plays music, but thats not enough to be an iPOD now is it?

Sure it's an iPod. Some people even *prefer* their iPod nanos to the larger cousins. It goes along with the whole apple digital hub concept.

Their vision is that you are never a couple days from your Mac, and as such, you slake your thirst for music using smart playlist and constant syncing.

That's pretty high-maintenance.

hard disks are prone to failure, huge and use the battery inefficiently.
i understand they want you to upgrade the entire device, when you need more capacity or your battery begins to fail, just like ipod, but if I had to renew my contract for two years every time I got a new phone, ATT would own me for the next decade.

--i'm sure the 8gig chips that they get from samsung are incredibly cheap with the volume discount they already have from the black nanos.