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.

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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.