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There are numerous extremely well-written and thorough reviews of this device on here, so I'll keep this brief. I'm basing this on my iPod 2nd Generation 16GB model that I purchased.
The Good: Although I purchased this device to use solely for music, its online capabilities, and a couple of games, I've ended up having a freakin' blast with this thing! It's intuitive and extremely easy to navigate. Being a musician, I had no idea how many cool apps were out there for this thing! Virtual guitar, keyboard, drum, etc. applications that - while you can't use them like their full-blown relatives - allow you to expand on an idea or just see how one works out when you're out and about, sans instrument! This - in and of itself - is worth its weight in gold. I won't go into all the applications there are, because I'd be here all day. Case and point, the appliations make this device worth so much more than I could've imagined. Although I could certainly have leveraged 32GB (I'm one of those guys with about 4TB of data between movies, games, music, etc.), I've found 16GB to suffice quite nicely! Oh, and jailbreaking the device is really simple, so long as you make sure you know what you're doing. Although I work in tech. support and am a very tech-savvy individual, I read up on it for an hour or two prior to doing it (on Vista x64, no less, which is the least optimal environment at the moment for jailbreaking, lol).
The Bad: As far as the device itself goes, the only, "bad" thing I can think of is an issue I've noticed others have had: applications randomly quit working. You'll go to load a purchased application and just before it starts loading its data, it'll kick you back to the home screen. Solution: After you've synced your applications in iTunes, delete the applications you've downloaded (on the home-screen, press and hold on any icon until they all start wiggling, then click the X's with circles around them to delete) that are effected, then re-sync your iPod with iTunes and they should reinstall and work just fine!
You can't create playlists within the device; you have to do it from iTunes. I don't really leverage playlists, though, so I have no isssues with this. My problems from here on out have nothing to do with the device itself, but rather, iTunes. First of all, it can take FOR-EVER to transfer MP3's to your iPod, due to iTunes', "feature" where it makes it so that songs have gapless playback. It pisses me off that Apple doesn't allow that functionality to be disabled, but I'm just one in a long line of people on that bandwagon. Also, I've noticed iTunes hangs a LOT for no apparent reason. I've even given ALL Apple processes running the highest priority below, "realtime" and it STILL hangs! This is on a powerhouse dual-core x64 machine with 4GB RAM, so I have the resources.
Anyway, my main gripe is with iTunes and its interaction with the iPod.
The Beautiful: The device itself. The interface, its usability, its exterior... Apple tries hard to focus on the UI and UX of its products and this device is exemplary of how they succeed.
Overall: 5 Stars! I'm a technophile, so I'm used to the notion that not all devices coming off the same production line will act exactly the same in any and every scenario. Though I've had the application issue once and iTunes is a fairly horrid application most of the time, I don't deem either to be a reason to rate this any less than 5 stars. Why? Because the good WAY outweighs the bad... for me, at least.
This rating has been brought to you by an avid Microsoft fan. I don't partake in the OS Wars (I think they're stupid; use what works for you and I'll use what works for me and we're all happy), so I'm giving Apple credit where credit is certainly due. I absolutely love my Zune, but I think I'll start calling it, "Woody" and my iPod touch, "Buzz Lightyear". lol. (Toy Story reference, if you have no idea what I'm referencing)
-Stephen
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