The good: Best-of-breed design and interface; comes in four colors; excellent playlist features; clean sound; smooth syncing with iTunes; organizes contacts; includes games; functions as an external drive; large third-party support; improved battery life. The bad: No FM radio or recording...
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In a hundred years time, if there was one object that might represent the Western world of the early 21st century the iPod would be a strong contender. Once merely a music player it’s become the ‘must-have’ fashion accessory of the moment. And even with its increased ubiquity as sales continue...
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Pixelologist
This was the nearly perfect mp3 player. A good size, reasonably tough and easy to use with certainly decent enough sound quality to play back the digitally-compressed music files for which it was designed. Of course, it's a bit limited in terms of file format support and the installed 4GB...
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jfrih
Ok, it's 2005. I just got a new PC, a Dell 510m laptop running XP. Finally I could buy and use a mp3 player. I was all set for the Creative Zen but in the store I took one look at the then new second gen iPod Mini and was sold. Within two weeks I realized that I should have bought an iBook...
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Halgy
I've owned my second gen iPod mini for several years now, and I've never regretted it. The only problem with it is that it occationally has a faulty battery in it; back in the day Apple would replace your iPod if this happened, but that time has long since passed. As such, when you buy...
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ihatemyuserid
The iPod mini 2G is still a great simple MP3 player if you want an easily hackable and upgradable device. Simply replace the original and outdated HDD with an ATA compatible CompactFlash card and then re-format the device. Mine currently has a 16GB CF card in it, but I might try to upgrade it...
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