talk to me about iPods

[rm]

I had a generation 3 silver chiclet before the theft.

I loved it. It was light, but I could still feel if I had it or not, and it didn't have a touch screen (I hate fucking touch screens).

The chiclet no longer exists, having been replaced by some little tiny touchscreen thing that I find confusing. The shuffle is a no go. I hate the iTouch (and dude, if I'm going to go there, I'd get an iPhone which doesn't work on my carrier). So do I need to go with the Classic? Is there any benefit to ordering an old chiclet and a slightly reduced cost.

I feel like I get so much more bang for the buck with the new models, eventhough they are all bigger and heavier than I want or have the scary touch screen factor.

Weigh in?

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[dsmoen.livejournal.com]

I have an embarrasingly large number of iPods. I am also speaking as me, and not as a company spokesperson.

I have a classic, several generations of nanos, two shuffles, an iPhone and an iPad. Eliminating the last two, what I use most is my fifth-generation Nano, which I think would fit your specs. It's not touch-screen, it's small, it holds a lot.

If you want ALL your music with you, probably a Classic is a better fit. I personally find that I rarely use mine because lugging that, a phone, and an iPad around seems like actual work.

They're still readily available on eBay though they have been discontinued.

[tsgeisel.livejournal.com]

Someone who has more iPods than I do - I'm impressed...

I've also got a really old classic (32G - wow!), a pre-camera touch, and a new Nano. I like the touch myself, but if you don't need the wifi internet part of it, it really is overkill as a music player.

My newest Nano I bought on a whim, with Dave and Busters tickets, as soon as I discovered I can get a wrist case that lets me wear it like a watch. It's a little larger than a typical wristwatch, but there is no watch quite so geeky as that. The icons can be changed around with relative ease as well, so everything you need can be on the front screen.

That said, I have to agree with the recommendation for the 5th generation Nano - the one that comes with the video camera. Decent size, decent form factor, and, as mentioned, a video option, because you never know when you might want it.

I occasionally find myself carrying both my classic and my touch when I'm travelling, because my car adapter doesn't reliably play from the touch (it took a while for stereo manufacturers to catch up to Apple), but I don't find it especially inconvenient. The form factors on both of them are actually quite reasonable.

[dsmoen.livejournal.com]

I like Shuffles for audiobooks, though now I'm mostly reading e-books, I still have a lot of them. Set them to play in order and they work well for audiobooks.

The classic isn't big, but more than once I've made the mistake of thinking I had my phone with me when it was really my iPod. It's smaller than the phone, granted. It's just that I'm carrying around a lot of stuff.

My personal favorite of the Nanos are the earlier squarer ones as they fit nicely in credit card slots in wallets. I have three of those.

Eventually, when I find them all, I should get a gallery of my iPods because I have many of the models from the third gen original on. My first gen original I gave to my mother, then to my husband, and unfortunately it was stolen from him at work one day.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Hah! I just purchased a TikTok watchstrap for my 6th gen Nano. It does look geeky, but it's comfortable and convenient. (I'm less worried about dropping my Nano, which has already happened once.)