MP3 owner report.

[nO-One]

I like it a lot, excellent mp3 player, a nice phone. Best web browsing experience you can get on a mobile device bar none. And having my mail and calendar from work on me is great, and much better implemented than it is on other phones I\'ve used.

However using it blindly is impossible so you don\'t dial numbers or write text messages without looking at the phone. Also using it with one hand is troublesome at best.

Since I\'m in Iceland and the phone\'s not out here yet I\'ve hacked and cracked mine, the only thing that doesn\'t work is the visual voicemail, but that\'s ok since I don\'t use voicemail at all and won\'t when that service starts around these parts.

iPod nano collecting dust

[Titan]

Ironically enough I just got an 8g iphone as an early xmas present last night.


Been fucking with it all day and I love it to death already.

I went into the Apple store in late August and just played around with them. I sat there for like 45 minutes just playing with it. Browsing the web, listening to music. I loved it. Which is good because my phone is going (camera doens\'t work any more and it shuts itself off from time to time when I answer a call) and by the time I have enough money to get a new phone, better versions I\'m sure will be out for the same price. I hope they come out with an 80 gig version (or atleast 40 gig) within the next year or so.

got a 2gb ipod nano. Would love to own an iphone.

[GmanJoe]

I bought my wife the 30 gig iPod 2 Christmas\'s ago. It\'s the slimmer version. I squeezed in 3 seasons of "Friends" into that player with plenty of space left.

had a 20 gig ipod, couple of years old now... last weekend, it gave it up, and has decided to die.... so need a new one, prob after xmas... but thinking of getting something other than a ipod....... what do peep reckon of the others?

[nO-One]

I went into the Apple store in late August and just played around with them. I sat there for like 45 minutes just playing with it. Browsing the web, listening to music. I loved it. Which is good because my phone is going (camera doens\'t work any more and it shuts itself off from time to time when I answer a call) and by the time I have enough money to get a new phone, better versions I\'m sure will be out for the same price. I hope they come out with an 80 gig version (or atleast 40 gig) within the next year or so.

Unlikely, for the time being atleast. It uses flash memory and at those size\'s the iPhone would be ridiculously expensive.

I\'ve got a Samsung YP-Z5F with 2Gb space. While it looks cool and it got rave reviews i\'d say it deserves a 6.9 out of 10.

The software to transfer to player is important imo ; and this is where the Samsung\'s weak point is ; it\'s a pretty linear pos process and afaik very propietary.

Access readtimes on the player could be better as well ; sometimes the songs suffer from a "hickup" ... makes me wonder if the memory is screwed up .

The real pro\'s for this MP3 player are it\'s long battery life, great LCD screen and good sound.

I\'ve got an old, 20 gig, 2nd gen iPod

[Titan]

Unlikely, for the time being atleast. It uses flash memory and at those size\'s the iPhone would be ridiculously expensive.

That\'s unfortunate. They need to develop a smaller and slimmer hard drive.

That\'s unfortunate. They need to develop a smaller and slimmer hard drive.

Harddrives are plenty small and slim. But they require more power than the solid state cards. And are more prone to failing.

Me and the Wife both have Zune 30\'s

love it so far... only thing that pissed me off with it was the last firmware update frigged up a lot of my album art, but i\'m slowly getting it back to normal.

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It\'s so increadably sad to see the popularity of Ipods. I admit apple got it right in terms of the portable MP3 player/ Music service intergration but other than that, Ipod hardware mimics that of the MAc pc, flashy on the outside cheap in the inside. Then again most people use the pre packaged ear buds.

Ipods user interface was desgined for the dummy, slow and clunky. My Rio Karma from 2002 puts it to shame. FUCKING HATE IPODS, what bothers me the most it that the average marketed brainwashed yuppie thinks apple is top quality and that it\'s competitors don\'t compare, and many people are not even aware that portable mp3 players go beyond what apple makes.

I love Apple\'s Ipods. Not because they\'re popular but because they\'re a great package (looks, function, everything). But some people hate them just because they\'re popular and go an inferior route just because. But whatever makes people happy.