All over the world, people carry with them walkmans and other music devices so that they can play their favorite music as they move around from place to place. The latest thing in the portable music devices field is the iPod, which offers a higher quality of the music being played and one of the most compact design out there.

The iPod allows you to play your music for an very long time (up to 12 hours for most of them) and have a huge amount of storage (some have 30GB). You can store thousands songs within a standard iPod and have instant access to them wherever you are at the moment. This makes them the perfect choice for your nowadays music necessities.

With iPods, transferring music from a CD takes less than 5 seconds, assuming that you use the FireWire and USB 2.0 support and can be transferred in a rather wide variety of formats, such as MP3, WMA, or AAC. With the iPods, users have the ability of importing songs from CDs, shuffling through songs, or choosing specific playlists, to name just a few of the iPods’ features.

iPods are also equipped with a calendar, contact lists, notes and a musical alarm clock, which makes them more than just a portable music device, along with their huge storage capability. With them, you can take your files anywhere at any time, use memos as reminders and even record whatever you want with their microphone option.

iPods come with a wide variety of language support for languages like English, Italian, German etc. and models, such as iPod mini, iPod, iPod Special Edition and iPod Photo, each with its own storage capability (4GB for the iPods mini to 30GB for iPods Photo).

In addition to the device itself, a wide line of accessories are available for iPods, such as camera connector, power adapter, auto charger, car holder, voice recorder and many more.

In conclusion, with their high quality of the music being played, high storage capability, high transfer speed and all their functions, the iPods make the perfect choice if you are a music addict or just need a portable storage device.

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I got my eyes set on a iPod mini, as it looked good for quite some reasons: it’s small enough to put inside a pant’s pocket, it has a lot of accessories to choose from and it obviously has enough hype you begin to wonder what all the fuss is about.

But you really have to see the cons of it and cut all the hype. It looked good from the start; it’s small and simple, easy to use and has that nice Apple logo. But quickly the downsides surfaced, and they sure are annoying.

Firstly, the headphones are horrible: they are so uncomfortable they are totally unusable, and also they do not sound good at all. Well, any other $5 headphone will do, so that’s not that bad. (It’s also not advisable to use them, as the white color alerts any potential muggers you have an easy sellable item.)

The interface seems a good idea, with the scroll being able to be controlled with a circular motion. For scrolling fast it’s great, but for selecting carefully one item, it’s difficult. Also, for ‘marking’ a song for how many stars, it sometimes works, sometimes you spend a full minute twiddling it to get it right. Any other player with a sensible scroller works much better.

I was excited to know it had games to play, so when I’m bored waiting in line or on a bus, it could be a great way to pass the time; but even the breakout rip-off is only entertaining for about 5 minutes.

I even thought that maybe I could upload some text files to read some e-book, but the screen is not big enough for that, and reading is so cramped it’s just not worth it.

The biggest gripe is that you cannot change the volume, unless you are on the ‘Now Playing’ menu! Any other player has dedicated buttons for this basic function, but in its decidedly minimalist point of view, it’s a pain to go search for that specific menu just to adjust for a small change in a song. It supposedly was thought out carefully, but I see a lot of problems in the interface.

Also, there seems to be a big problem with the duration of its internal, non-replaceable battery. After 2 months of use, I did notice, it does not hold a charge for long now. After two house of continuous play, it just shuts down. Other reports on the web also say the battery fails, and has to be replaced.

I have also read on the web that the headphone connector is badly soldered and you eventually have to open it up and resolder it again.

I wouldn’t buy it again. The iriver or the Creative seem to be a lot better options.

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The iPod technological blessings bestowed upon the public have been numerous.

Upgrade frenzy hasn’t really died down just yet for this particular brand of portable digital audio player.

Of course, as evidenced by the Windows Mobile Team Blog, upgrade strategies adopted by corporations may be contingent on that pesky cost factor.

My Windows Mobile 5 upgrade article sheds some light on upgrade trends and how consumer base plays no small part in the upgrade equation as theoretically applied to Apple.

If we take a look at iPod versus PDA technological evolution, the former is proceeding at a blistering, heart-palpitating rate for consumers.

This trauma doesn’t just concern these audio digital devices, either, as iPod and other rapid upgrade curves outlined in a recent TechNewsWorld article.

The next incarnation is unfortunately not far away, no matter when you purchase your Latest, Shiniest Innovative Technology.

Maybe the lustre will last longer than it did for users purchasing one of those awesome, limited edition Harry Potter fourth-generation iPod with the laser engraved Hogwarts crest in September 2005.

I could only imagine the expletive-filled, foaming at the mouth rants when Apple announced its fifth-generation model one month later, along with plans to discontinue the already absurdly priced Harry Potter model.

In a heinous marketing manuever, the Harry Potter audiobooks were announced simultaneously, making sale of the limited edition model dependent on purchase of the entire set of the former.

Consumers were belted in their collective bread baskets to the tune of $650.00 CDN for the collection.

Now the video iPod capable of avarice-inducing MPEG-4 playback at 480 x 480 is producing green-eyed envy from fourth-generation iPod owners at a hefty $473.64 CDN if you decide to spring for the 60 glorious gigabytes of storage.

If you’re trying to determine how well your devices stack up with each other, video playback capability versus non-MPEG capable is really a no-contest type of wager.

As Pocket PC owners, our own technological evolution has taken meandering and admittedly frustrating paths sometimes.

I recently referenced the HP hw6515 smartphone in another article, with Hewlett Packard deciding to play it safe with a WM 2003 OS release.

I guess such Windows Mobile 5 innovations like oodles more flash ROM capability and more efficient energy usage, will elude a few of our newer devices.

These just happen to be factors that are near and dear to Pocket PC gamers’ hearts.

Still, the Pocket PC market hasn’t shown itself to be as upgrade-traumatized as the iPod crowd.

The majority of us are still on WM 2003 or WM 2003 SE, and inexplicably, PDA game quality is improving by the looks of some recent high-resolution, audio-licious Pocket PC game downloads.

Still, better a meandering PDA upgrade path than a feverish iPod one in my opinion. I’d rather not lose my wallet trying to keep up with the Joneses.

It looks like EBay will be prospering for some time to come.

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Damian Julien is a Pocket PC gaming authority and long time general gaming hobbyist and reviewer.

He is an IT specialist by trade and has posted numerous articles on Pocket PC emulators, gaming and trends in the industry.

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