Firewire Question; Charging only?

I'm confused about the specs for the nano. Apple says it can charge through firewire, but can it transfer the songs (and pics etc) via firewire also?
Cheers and thanks

Though USB is theoretically faster than Firewire 400, in real life it only achieves about half it's peak speed. Consequently, USB2.0 is regularly trounced by Firewire 400 on both Mac and Windows. One of the reasons for this is that USB uses the CPU to manage data transfer between devices, resulting in greater overhead for each transfer, while Firewire is peer-to-peer.
Add to this that Firewire connections are more reliable, OS X can be booted from a Firewire drive (or iPod) and Firewire devices can be daisy-chained while USB devices cannot, Firewire comes out the clear winner.
Now if only Apple would support Firewire a little better on the iPods. (nano can charge only, Shuffle only has USB, and the iPod only comes with a USB cable)

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