iPod photo first impressions

[neuroking]

Just got one of the 60 giggers, and only played with it a couple hours, but thought I'd share.

If you've owned an iPod, same deal, slightly thicker (so make sure your old accessories/cases will work), color screen w/ Apple-esque scheme, minimally customizable slide show ability, syncs with Adobe Photo Album, A/V out of doc.

If you haven't, the interface is simply the easiest to use. Hands down. The integration with iTunes is very well implemented and, to me, makes up for the bloat of the program. Also, the iTunes ID3 tag editting is downright dreamy. I could use EasyTagger, my previous favorite, for 3 hours, and accomplish the same with iTunes in 15 minutes. You understand the iPod mojo, when you use iTunes, I think. iTunes is the organization, the iPod is the presentation. It almost seems like actually playing mp3s is an afterthought to iTunes, which is odd, since iTunes is actually based on a 3rd party piece of software that Apple bought right before the transition to OSX, that was centered around just playing.

Stock buds suck. Thinking of actually splurging on some Etymotic ER4s. The Shure E2Cs work well, the Senn HD580s are a little underpowered.

Hrmm... that's all for now!

[dang]

was it worth it the price to be able to have the color screen? Just didnt seem worth it for pictures only.

[Ioman]

I wouls get an Archos I think.

[neuroking]

Well, I wanted 60GB+, and there's no 60GB regular iPod. I also had an iRiver flash mp3 player that mysteriously broke around my decision to get the iPod. Good thing I got that replacement plan! Oh, and I had a gift card to knock of another $100.

If I was going out to buy my first mp3 player, no, $599 is just too much. But once the price was whiddled down to arond $300, it was definately worth it. Oh, and the remainder was a present. So, yes, definately worth $free. :)

For the 40GB it's only $100 more for teh photo than the regular. I think monochrome lcd devices just look out of date from the get go, with digicams, pdas, cell phones all having color lcds and OLEDs catching on for flash mp3 players, so the color is worth the extra $100 to me.

One thing I want to add is that the sound quality is just great. Blows my old iRiver completely out of the water in volume and clarity.

[neuroking]

And I think all Archos mp3 players are 20GB. Didn't they have a larger one at one point that used a monster drive? Something like a 3.5"?