It has a sliding panel like ipods, but up and down and not the patended circluar.
I think for $100US the 8 gig version is excellent, in the Apple world u dont get a big screen and freedom of file formats i.e DIVX, Real one, Ogg Vorbis, for that price, nor the file swapping and sharing of music freedoms. Its screen is much larger than a NANO's too.
I use a shuffle for my music and its only 1 gig, I used to have a 3rd gen 15 gig and found it was a waste and I never listened to the 7000 songs on it, I only listen to say 30 a anytime. I will use my meizu for everything else.
Miniplayer vs Nano - a photoset on Flickr