You're the one for me, fatty

When the new ipod nanos were launched last year, the initial reaction in our office was much the same as elsewhere: yuk, they've squashed the ipod. My friend Andy described them as like 'seeing a cute girl you used to know that got fat'. Andy's a sensitive kind of guy. In short, the new Nano was a fatty.

However over Christmas I got to see one in the flesh and discovered that square-ish they may be, but fat they ain't. Clearly Apple's release photos didn't do them justice (probably shooting them straight on was a mistake, as you didn't get to see how thin they were.)

Now I love my original ipod shuffle dearly, but I have of late found myself wishing for a screen so that I can, y'know, actually select tracks (or at least know what track I'm listening too!). Also, Hev wants an ipod of her own and was taken with the colour selection - particularly the special red one that donates some money to HIV charities (a subject close to her battery-operated heart after her work in Cameroon).

So we're going to buy each other Nanos for Valentines' (aaaah...) - a technique for justifying expenditure on flash new toys that we're repeating from 2005, when we did the same thing with the ipod shuffles.

Show you care, say it with ipods...