I bought a purple iPod Nano today. 16 GB, of course - 8 would never be enough!
I certainly didn't need another iPod; I already have one of the previous model, plus the one in my iPhone. But purple! How could I resist? In fact, most of the colors are pretty cool; I was also very attracted by the black (which looks more like dark grey to me) and the red. But purple has been my color for a very, very long time, despite my recent flirtation with red, so I had to go with tradition on this.
I'm still loading it up with stuff so I haven't tried to use it yet. It doesn't appear to be much different than all the ones that came before, except for a bigger screen and curved face and back, giving it a football-shaped silhouette from the ends. It also seems to sync faster, though that could be my imagination.
It appears to share one annoying feature with my previous iPod - the screen stays on when it's plugged in to my iMac. This can't be good for the screen; I've always been taught that it will eventually damage the screen if a single image is allowed to "burn in" like that. So I have to eject it from iTunes to turn the screen off. Seems like a bad idea, especially since the previous models had a screen saver that turned off this image after a fairly short time.
I guess this just shows how much of an Apple fan I really am; whatever they come out with, I can find a reason to buy it. It's kind of surprising that I haven't found an excuse to buy an iPod Touch yet...
A picture of the glorious purple color, courtesy of the online Apple store:

