Apple iPod (3G) 40 GB

I have had my ipod for 9 months and have had no problems with battery life. Generally it lasts about 10 -11 hours on a full charge which for me is about 2 days of listening but as it takes only 1 hour to 80% charge and a further hour to full charge it doesn’t take long to recharge. The battery life is also affected by factors such as how often you change songs (as the hard drive has to spin up) and how much you use the backlight. I’m not the safest person with fragile gadgets and before I got my ipod I was worried I would spend a lot of money getting one and then break it. However I needn’t have worried I have (though I’m not proud to say) dropped it down the ...

For the past few years, I'd been using various models of Sony's Minidisc players as my portable audio device of choice. At the time, it made sense to me to use one of these over the newer mp3 players which I thought were too small, capacity wise, to be of any use (plus I really doubted their sturdiness). While visiting America last year, I had the chance to see Apple's iPod up close and personal for the first time. I was really impressed by it, design-wise. It was small, but not too small (slightly longer, narrower and thinner than a pack of cards) and had a pleasing weight to it that made it feel sturdy and not too fragile. I did eventually buy one ...

Now lets be honest, even as little as ten years ago if someone had told you there would soon be a contraption that could store and playback your whole music collection you may well have laughed in their face. Add to that the fact that this wonder machine of the future would be little bigger than a pack of cards and very likely you would have thought that the particular soothsayer had seen one too many episodes of Tomorrows World. Behold though, the future is hear – and it is manufactured by Apple! I talk about a minor miracle of engineering and computing wizardry, the i-pod. The i-pod recently celebrated its third birthday and is currently on its fourth ...