Hey, so I'm thinking on buying something that's not an ipod to cover my portable media playing needs, what would you recommend

I don't have a single complaint with my iPod touch. Sure it may not do everything flawlessly (or even be the best at anything either) but it has been reliable for me and the app store gives me a better selection of games and time wasters than anything else. I have a few friends who have Zunes however and they love them as well.

I just don't like iPod because it's like you pay three hundred dollars and gotta' go through a shit load of trouble just to mod one little thing on them.

From what I've heard from a friend about modding his Zune; it's way easier than it was to mod my other friend's iPod. (They are both cousins and spent all day trying to jailbreak one damn iPod :P)

Yeah, well I still hate the iPod.

I hate them because I've had two and both of them winded up to where they don't even cut on. Is that good enough?

Actually, I only charged it once a week. (about a week it would seem) Sure, I listened to them a lot, but not enough to kill it in one day. And no I didn't try to do anything with it. And my cousins iPod did the same thing.

Of everyone I know who's owned an iPod, every single one of them has had some level of trouble with it, and since stopped buying iPods (with the exception of Cam who has a current gen Classic of course).

I'm still using my Creative Zen Touch from 2005, but it has long since started to do strange things like tell me there's a full battery, then cut out after less than an album with "low battery". Also, the stupid thing sometimes decides when I'm selecting an album that "oh you pressed the big random button" even though I absolutely never do, and to un-randomise I habe to go to play mode settings and then scroll all the way back down the list to what I was trying to get to in the first place. And then it does it AGAIN. Oh, and it sometimes just cuts out when it's cold (and not that cold either, we're talking positive on the Celsius scale), and restarts, which returns it to whatever it had in memory last time you shut it down. Which often sucks because I'm in the middle of a 15 minute song, so now I have to use the shitty skip/search buttons which have a tendency to skip when you try to search.

All in all though, it is built like a tank. I dropped it down some stone stairs once, the thing didn't even skip.

Edited by user 09 March 2010 22:55:16(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

I don't see why people hate ipod touchs. Sure, it's made by apple, but I think it's fairly reliable. It and the Zune are nearly the same thing. Okay, maybe zune doesn't break down quite as often or doesn't get as fucked up as the ipod, but the ipod has WAY more things to do on. If you want a sole music player, get the zune. If you want a toy, get the ipod.

For you people "against the establishment" Sansa makes decent mp3 players.Really good storage for cheap.

can ur psp play music while surfing the web while playing a game all at the same time plus more? no i didin't think so