Wanting to buy a gift for a niece aged 12 and not sure what player to get her, pretty sure she wants an i pod of some sort but not 100% sure, she already has a shuffle so was thinking of a better version of this ie nano??

The next step up is the nano and the the iPod Touch.

The nano is an mp3 player and radio. The Touch is all that plus you can use apps (applications) downloaded from the apple store so you can play games, read books and numerous other things and if you're close to a wifi connection you can get mail and surf the web.

I reckon a nano would be fine but it might be worth checking.