More Adventures in Shopping!

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So the Samsung MP3 player turned out to have a defective battery. Meanwhile, I had been getting increasingly frustrated with it - the much touted features were not really up to much and some of it was salesgirl misrepresentation; the manual was written in classic awful bad translated English and there didn't seem to be any real support system online. The main (if not the only) source for spoken word downloads (Audibles) is pretty much ipod only - anyway, doesn't support the Samsung. So I gave up and traded it in for an IPOD!!!!

Boy is it cool.

No wonder it won design awards.

It's a thing of beauty.

Comments

[lilyfriend.livejournal.com]

Well, IPods must be doing something right. Everyone I know (other than my brother) has an IPod for their listening needs. And the only reason my brother does not get one is because he likes to drop electrical equipment, or sometimes his wallet, into a river. So having to buy replacements for the cheap-o varieties is much more economical. :)

[intertext.livejournal.com]

Heh. Well, that makes sense. But the difference is amazing. The sound quality of the Samsung was perfectly good, and techie friends of mine assure me that in fact the "guts" of the Samsung are superior, but the ipod is just so much more user friendly. And itunes works seamlessly with it - I couldn't seem to get playlists to save in Windows Media and transfer to the Samsung, whereas itunes and the ipod talk to one another without you having to do anything. And the itunes store is of course the best, and "Audibles" is really the only audio bookstore for mp3's... And it really IS beautiful.

[owlfish]

I've liked everything about my iPod except the battery life - at this point, it's pretty pathetic, and was so within a year of purchasing it. Mine shouldn't tell you anything about yours since mine is ancient by iPod standards. Then again, Apple in general has batttery issues.

[intertext.livejournal.com]

yeah, that's the one recurring theme I've heard; and there was a rumour that the battery life on the Samsung was much better, but I think on another model, not on the one I bought. When I looked it up online it appeared if anything to be less than the ipod's, and then, as I said, mine turned out to be defective anyway!