Newteevee apparently duct-taped an older model Flip SD video camera to a new iPod 5G and took about 3 minutes of side-by-side video both indoors and outdoors. Seems like the Flip greatly outperformed the iPod in both audio and video categories as per the Ntv video below…
Other unflattering remarks include “the nano’s video was darker and bluer than the Flip’s”, “looked drab”, and ” the nano failed to pick up detail “, as per a review by Infoworld.
And P.Kafka over at AllthingsD largely agrees, suggesting that video produced by the nano 5G is even worse than that out of the already not-so-hot iPhone 3GS, but then adds the kafkaesque comment: ”the nano is good enough“. He goes on to say that multi-purpose converged devices will generally win out over higher-quality dedicated ones…’the triumph of mediocrity’, as he puts it. One supposes that the only way forward for the Flip, and like devices, is to pile on the features such as telephony, radios and music players, but to keep the ratio of cost to selling price as low as possible.
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In a way, I’d prefer a device that does a bunch of things just fine to a device that does one or two things really well.