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Originally Posted by Ryan Dognaux
I'm not even hard on my 4th Gen iPod, I guess listening to it everyday is just too much for it to handle. One day it randomly has an incredibly difficult time reading from the hard drive, and this is about the 3rd time this has happened to me...
:sigh: I'm waiting for the Zune v.2
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Whether you get the Zune or a Video iPod, the problem between the two is the same: hard drives in portable objects. Hard drives by nature are not very fond of shocks, justles, sudden movements, etc., and to use them in a portable music player ensures that the device won't last forever.
(Which was one of the biggest reasons why I originally held off purchasing an iPod until they came out with a decent-sized Flash based one.)
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Originally Posted by John Gutmann
Wow. I Have put my ipod nano throught the washing machine, droped it in a pool, thrown it. droped it countless times. And yet it still works!
What is a bigger scam? The iPhone or PS3!?
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And this is what makes Flash-based media players so much better. Without the moving parts of the mini hard drives in Video iPods or Zunes, they are nearly indestructable. The original iPod Nano survived extreme stunts and still worked. The iPod Shuffle can survive almost anything and still rock on.
This is why I'd consider purchasing an iPhone, but not at least until my current Verizon contract is up in a year and a half. Plus by then, the iPhones will most definitely have more features, more memory storage, hopefully a 3G data connection, and will probably be cheaper. (Anyone remember that the original first-gen iPods were $400 and $500? Now five years later, they're half that price.)