Deleting nano games?

Question

Is it possible to delete the games(solitaire etc..) on your nano? I have been trying to, so I can free up some more room. The 500 song thing is definatley not true. I wish they would change the advertising on the song capacity.
nano   Windows XP  

Answer 1

The 500 song thing is definatley not true. I wish they would change the advertising on the song capacity.
Here's the math for you. (I'll use a 4GB Nano as an example since I can cut & paste from a previous post.)
Apple states that 1GB = 1 billion bytes.
4GB Nano is advertised as having 4 billion bytes of capacity. (4,000,000,000 bytes)
Since a true binary gigabyte is actually 1,073,741,824 bytes, that would mean that a 4GB Nano actually has about 3.72GB of unformatted capacity. 4,000,000,000 / 1,073,741,824 = 3.72GB
Since the iPod software, extras and formatting take up some space, you are left with slightly less than 3.72GB of space for your music. Let's ballpark the iPod software to be about 20MB... which is somewhat close. That leaves about 3.70GB for your content.
A 4minute 128kbps AAC file will be just about 3.75MB
240 seconds * 128 kilobits per second = 30,720,000 bits.
30,720,000 bits = 3,840,000 bytes = 3.75MB
3.70GB = 3,972,844,749 bytes
3.75MB = 3,932,160 bytes
3,972,844,749 / 3,932,160 = 1010 songs.
If a 4GB Nano can hold about 1000 songs, then a 2GB Nano will hold about half that. Half of 1000 in my book is 500.