Having owned a couple of different brands of mp3 players in the past I finaly made the move to the ipod with the release of its new touch model. Since buying it, I cannot see a reason why I would buy from any other brand in the future. It works incredibly well for all of its features and I find I use it every day, whether it be to listen to music, search the web, or use the multitude of applications available on it. When first purchased the app store and some other key features were not available and I had to install an update in order to access these. Regrettably the update cost an extra £2.99, which I resisted for a long time before finally getting it. I am now extremely glad I did because the new world that opens up from being able to use the free and paid apps is amazing. Simple tasks are made so much easier through clever applications even surfing particular sites is made quicker through specifically desgined apps for that site. On a whole the ipod works very well, the sound and picture quality is second to none, and operationally runs very smoothly without fault.