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I myself would go with the Nano, it’s very cute and I really don’t WATCH my iPod. :P

(Of course, this is coming from a girl who has an iPod mini that her sister took from her ex-boyfriend, with his permission.)

yeah, I own an Ipod Nano, i dont understand why people need 30 and 40 gigs etc. wayyyy too much music, and I dont like watching videos on 2 inch screens, Plus nanos are cheaper.

thank you so much. you have really put it in perspective for me… i have made my choice…. nano it is

or, you can get an mp4 player for less than half the cost.

Hell, for £50 ($100) you can get about 150GB of storage in an external HDD media player.

For around the same price you could get a second-hand PDA with Windows CE on it and slap in a flash card for storage space and use it as an MP3/MP4 player plus many, many other things.

In case anyone isn’t getting the vibe here, iPods are seriously overpriced technology…

but then you’d be stuck wrestling with Windows Media Player for the rest of eternity

That’s like saying if you purchase a Windows PC you’re stuck wrestling with Internet Explorer. Just download something else…

I’d much rather recommend iTunes, which actually updates its software regularly

If you’re taking a snipe at WMP here, it updates all the time through Windows Update.

has a real GUI

Windows Mobile has a very slick GUI far in advance of the one you get laboured with on an iPod because it’s a full OS. The rest depends on your preferred software, but there’s no reason with a touch-screen interface why they should be worse than the one offered with an iPod.

and is guarneteed to sync to its corresponding hardware.

…and ActiveSync doesn’t?

I guess that’s my Apple Fanboy plug for the day :)

The Jehovah’s Witnesses of Computing.

In any event, to the best of my knowledge, most PMP players produce their own proprietary software, preventing you from simply “downloading something else”, as one can on a full featured PC.

Which is why I was talking specifically about PPCs.

In terms of the OS itself, Windows Mobile is to be found on tablet PCs and PDAs, which are in a separate category from standard PMP’s. A closer comparison would be to an iPhone or iPod touch, both of which run a version of OS X akin - albeit superior to - Windows Mobile.

We’re talking about what can do the job of an iPod for a cheaper price. An iPhone is not cheaper, or even close. The point is if a PPC can do the same job, for cheaper, and provide far more features then there’s no reason not to get it over an iPod.

Whether something three times the price offers a better skin is out of context. This isn’t a fan-boy war, it’s trying to address the needs of the OP.

both of which run a version of OS X akin - albeit superior to - Windows Mobile.

Utter conjecture… and as pointed out above out of context.

Rushyo wrote:

or, you can get an mp4 player for less than half the cost.

Hell, for £50 ($100) you can get about 150GB of storage in an external HDD media player.

For around the same price you could get a second-hand PDA with Windows CE on it and slap in a flash card for storage space and use it as an MP3/MP4 player plus many, many other things.

In case anyone isn’t getting the vibe here, iPods are seriously overpriced technology…

ipods are not too overely priced at all and they do the job and dont break down (mp3 player).