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Post by Qwertman on Sept 21, 2009 14:41:32 GMT -5
It is... So freaking awesome! If anybody here is thinking about gerting an iTouch think again becaus theres a new player in the house. I got mine on the first day and love everything about it. The browser doesnt have as many features as the itouch's, but it sure is faster and the keyboard is easier to use (I'm typing this on my zhd right now!). So thats my opinion of the thing. Any questions or comments I'd be glad to answer. ;-)
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Post by Captain Amadeus (Legendary Em) on Sept 22, 2009 0:48:19 GMT -5
ZUNE
Because second place isn't that bad.
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Post by Qwertman on Sept 23, 2009 14:39:07 GMT -5
:-P Yes, we'll always be second, but I'm surprised at the huge amount of kids at my school that say they want an HD rather than automatically associating the word Zune with Suck because of the 1st generation's failure so many years ago.
In fact I read that pre-orders of the HD topped those of the iTouch by a lot. Not sure how valid the source was though.
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Post by Captain Amadeus (Legendary Em) on Sept 23, 2009 16:53:19 GMT -5
I have a Zune; luckily, I didn't update mine when it had wanted me to, so it never bricked on me. Of course, I've upgraded it since then, which has probably made me susceptible to a bricking of some sort.
iPods are just too expensive; price range is the only thing Microsoft has over Apple.
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Post by in·clover on Sept 23, 2009 23:55:31 GMT -5
This drunk kid insisted that I buy one, so we could be "zune buddies".
I like my cheap knockoff fine, thank you. My MP3 player plays MP3s, can't imagine why I'd need to do anything more. My cell phone already does a whole bunch of unnecessary crap as it is. In fact, I'm pretty sure it plays music, too... It also calls people, eliminating the need to "text" them.
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Post by Pitch on Sept 24, 2009 0:10:49 GMT -5
I would agree 100% with B-R-E-T, if it weren't for the fact that my cheap knockoff MP3 player* randomly broke after a few weeks of use. >___< It's still usable, but the screen no longer functions, so I have to sense which button to press when.
Still, sounds nifty. Portable web browsing is fun when you can't lug a computer around with you at least. But it's harder and harder to hop on unsecured wifi these days, unfortunately. Curse people getting with the times..
* - An 8GB Centon Craze ($40), btw
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Post by Buster Cannon on Sept 24, 2009 8:00:02 GMT -5
I'm sticking with my cheap $20 knock-off as well. It has it's occasional kinks, but it works like a charm otherwise, and even has a nice looping feature.
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Post by Tau on Sept 24, 2009 13:30:01 GMT -5
When it supports Rockbox, give me a call. I'm happy with my 2 GB Sansa.
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Post by Captain Amadeus (Legendary Em) on Sept 24, 2009 17:19:45 GMT -5
I won't lie: I pity the people who own cheap knockoff MP3 players. Not only are they unsuited for people with a taste for music (many being under a gigabyte in size), but their interfaces and even button layouts are usually flawed. Add in the fact that they break easily and for no apparent reason, and you have a shoddy peice of plastic that can play about ten or so CDs before having a button get jammed.
Even though it's no iPod touch, I love my Zune for what it is. I have twenty gigabytes of music on it so far, with another 9 to go. I listen to all of it regularly, and switch back and forth between listening to one style of music to the other. I couldn't live without it, basically.
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Post by Tau on Sept 24, 2009 19:43:34 GMT -5
You pity us? Well, considering my player cost about 1/5 the price of the 16 GB Zune and works as well as it did the day I bought (a couple years), I don't feel too bad about my purchase. One can appreciate music without having to carry his entire library with him everywhere he goes.
By the way, with flash memory being so cheap these days, most "knockoff" players have at least a gigabyte. From what I've seen, most have at least two.
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Post by Captain Amadeus (Legendary Em) on Sept 24, 2009 21:53:39 GMT -5
Working just as well would mean having as much content, or at the very least being as easy to navigate. Most knockoffs I see have LED interfaces, or only LED bars with song titles, and everything else on the buttons. Terrible, terrible design.
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Post by Pitch on Sept 24, 2009 23:31:07 GMT -5
The LCD on mine was actually quite nifty when it worked. They fit a good bit of information on it. The interface was anything but intuitive, but you figure that sort of thing out in a matter of minutes anyway.
My main gripe with knockoff MP3s, mine included, is the total lack of any kind of sorting function. I had to find a program to alphabetize the file allocation table or something like that. Not a huge deal, really, but there's just no excuse for not having sorting built-in.
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Post by in·clover on Sept 24, 2009 23:55:22 GMT -5
@legendary: Wait... what? You pity us for not being consumer whores?
I've had my MP3 player for three years, not a thing wrong with it yet. I can read the LED, which shouldn't be a problem for anyone who isn't legally blind, and mine typically holds about seven albums (give or take) which is more than I have the time for in one sitting.
@green: Yours doesn't have folders?
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Post by mirak on Sept 25, 2009 0:23:26 GMT -5
I laughed really hard to legendaryemerald's post about pity, surely everyone should strive to be media whores in order to have "taste for music". Alright what is this "Zune" everyone's talking about? Some new ipod thing? Mi pais no tiene tecnología avanzada. I use an Ibit because i'm a man's man. It plays music, that's all i need. People soon forgot the original purpose of music players, now ipods carry more memory than your average computer hard disk and what for?, to have more and more pirated music inside it? Music you probably won't even like two months later and that you have to skip each time it starts playing, only to find other 500 songs you have to skip until you find one you actually want to hear? I don't really see the point in that, my ibit can play mp3 and wave files, has only 2GB worth of space and i think it has optional features like karaoke mode and radio mode, but they're all centered on that: Music. I also just have to plug it on any usb port and presto, direct access to my folders, i don't have to install some gay program to "convert my files and synchronize". Your generic mainstream music player now grants you the "invaluable " ability of letting you watch videos and read text and pdf documents in it's micro sized screen, just in case you feared you'd never lose your good eyesight, now i've heard that some has alarm and clock functions, agendas, games and can browse the internet. Excuse me but how can people still call these things "Music Players" with a straight face? There are some apple products that look like they're trying to save the ipods from being called something else than "music players", like the ipod shuffle, but those things suck big fat popsicle because there is no way of knowing what song you're going to play, and we enter once again in the "skip skip skip skip" button mashing sequence. I love my ibit, you must see it turned on, it's screen is all black, with leds, arcade-like, neon colored orange and cyan letters. Ohh, so elegant, so charming, so functional. I've had it for like 4 years and it's like new.
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Post by Tau on Sept 25, 2009 0:28:32 GMT -5
@green: Yours doesn't have folders? Some don't. Both players I've had (before installing Rockbox) have sorted everything by their ID3 tags (artist, album, genre, year, etc.). The system works fine as long as you keep an eye on your tags when adding music.
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