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Apple’s most recent iPod Nano didn’t impress our reviewers much, but if you pick one up anyway you’ll probably need a way to carry it around. The attached clip on the back is great for pinning the device to your clothes, but if you’re going out on the town with it you may want a better way to carry it around. Thankfully, iLoveHandles’ new iPod Nano wrist straps can do the job nicely if you’re the type to wear a wristwatch.

The product itself is just a leather watch strap with a notch cut out for you to affix the iPod’s clip onto. Just put the strap on like a wristwatch, and then clip your iPod Nano into place. Since the lock-screen on the new touch-screen Nano is your choice of an analog or digital clock, it works perfectly. The iLoveHandles straps are available for $19.99 list, but something tells me they won’t be the last people to make these, either to sell or to make for themselves. 

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What, you didn’t think iFixit would stop at just disassembling the new iPod touch, did you? The all-new nano has also been sat atop the workbench, handed a bottle of hard liquor, and told to close its eyes and count to 120 million. The 6th-gen device weighs in at 67 percent of the volume of its precursor, with a slightly thicker body and that integrated clip on its back. Its 240- x 240-pixel display offers a 220ppi density, which, within Apple’s ranks, is bettered only by the Retina Display on the fourth generation iPhone and iPod touch devices. Regrettably, just as with those two machines, the 2010 nano has its front glass, LCD and touchscreen assembly fused together. One handy bit of news here is the battery size, which at 105mAh is what you might call paltry, but still doubles up the 2010 shuffle‘s 51mAh. All in all, the conclusion from this dissection is that the new device feels more like a shuffle with a screen than a miniaturized nano, which, when you look at the form factor, makes all sorts of sense. More at the source.

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With the latest iPods shipping this week, you’ll be wanting to know whether an upgrade is necessary—or whether to take the plunge into the wild world of iPoddery. So far, this is what the reviews are saying: More »

A number of early iPod pre-orderers are reporting that they’ve already begun receiving shipping notifications on their new devices. The messages began arriving over the long weekend, notifying buyers that the devices would begin arriving by week’s end–or later.

A quick survey around the office found that no one on staff who had ordered a device had received a notification. Apple’s online store, meanwhile, still lists delivery time of the iPod touch, nano, and shuffle as shipping in “one week,” versus “24 hours” for the un-refreshed iPod classic.

The new nano, touch, and shuffle were introduced at last week’s Apple event and made available for pre-order.

Another Apple event has come and gone, and–at least as far as the odds makers are concern–the rumor mill did pretty well this time out. We saw a new, FaceTime-enabled iPod touch, a shuffle-sized touch screen nano, and a full-on refresh of the company’s oft-maligned Apple TV. As expected, iTunes got an upgrade as well, with the debut of iTunes 10.

There were some surprises, as well, including the debut of Ping–the iTunes-based social network and the announcement of Game Center, a forthcoming gaming service that some pundits are touting at Apple’s answer to Xbox Live or the PlayStation Network.

As always, there were also a number of rumors that never came to fruition, ranging from the probable to the highly unlikely–what, after all, would an Apple announcement be without a few crazy wildcards?

After the jump, check out the biggest rumors that never materialized.