I bought a arm band online cause I could not get it it he stores. Very unhappy with it.
Have to take it off my arm every time I want to to adjust the volume. The controls on the ipod at extremely sensitive and unable to work through the clear plastic covering on the arm band.
I bought a red one and a green one at the Apple Store and they are fantastic.
They are very comfortable, look good and I can work all the functions through
the clear cover over the click wheel.
Nancy, if you have an Apple arm band you are probably not using it correctly... I have one and can adjust the volume and access all other controls without removing taking it off my arm... I'm extremely happy with it!
I have the pink armband and it doesn't cover the click wheel and is really easy to use when i'm jogging and such. Are you sure you bought the apple armband?
I haven't seen any scratches from the nano arm band. The nano display is outside the arm band and so there is no contact and no chance of scratching. The clickwheel does fall into the arm band and I don't see any sign of scratching here.
If you jogged on a windy beach and got sand between teh arm band and the nano, I wouldn't be surprised if you could develope a scratch.
why? the carrying case I had covered the click wheel up, same as apple tubes. I have no problem to play with click wheel at all. It is sensitive and little bit over sensitive to me.
My suggestion is treate your nano nice, try some real silicone cases, do not wast your money on plastic, rubber or cheap stuffs.
If you are working out, I would get the nano arm band. I attach it to my upper forearm to make it easier to see and control (I'm getting older and putting it on my upper arm gets challenging to see the display that close to the eye)
To control cord, I run the cord through the band so its pointing up my arm toward my head, this helps keep the cord under control so it doesn't get caught in front of me by my other hand.
If not working out, I keep my nano in an iPod sock ($30 for 6 socks) The sock works very well, it holds the nano well (the nano doesn't fall out) but you can pull the nano out of the sock by pulling on the headphone cord (i.e. it doesn't take much effort to pull out the nano either).
I have ordered the nanotubes for when the lanyard headphones finally release (~ 4weeks from now according to the online Apple store). It will be interesting to see how easy the nanotubes are to remove. I can't imagine the nano is going to fit into the armband with a nanotube on?
If the nanotubes are too thick, I might invest in the invisble shield that folks are talking about. This looks like a real tough skin and should be thin enough to allow for use in the armband...
Bought the arm band the gray one from the apple website.
Maybe I am just not good at using the ipod wheel but when I move my finger, around I get either the fast forward feature or this 3 or 4 star like images, I can not get the volume to move.
It is terrible, big disapointment...................
You have to press harder than you think because of the wheel cover. Go clockwise and volume will increase. I agree a little disappointing, but protects the center wheel= tradeoff.
Nancy, to adjust volume touch the circular click-wheel and run your finger around in a circle, clockwise to raise volume counter clockwise to reduce volume.
If you are getting the fast forward than you are pressing too hard on the clickwheel.
If you are getting stars, then you ar clicking on the center button and then scrolling on the wheel (It usually takes two or three center clicks to activate the star ranking feature, afterwhich you scroll up or down to select the appropriate number of stars.
