Ipod Classic - a real user's review

Guys, I bought my Ipod classic during the last gitex (this is a yearly technology show organised in Dubai). Now it is almost a year and I think i have gained experience to write about my one and only portable music player!

My wife was using a Toshiba portable DVD player and I was so ashamed of my self that i didn't had one of my own. I am not going to compare these two totally different items - portable DVD player and ipod classic.... but to shed some light on the usefulness as well as uselessness of the monster called ipod classic.

Even before buying this product, i knew that ipod dont have a built in radio. May be this is a marketing strategy of apple... as i found separate radio attachment in few shops - that too costing around Dirham 250!!! Thats almost $70!!! Guys, u can get good 2 - 4 GB portable player with that money...

How ever, the real beauty of ipod classic is not in radio... nor in the stupid itunes (i have never seen a software such complicated)... but in the capacity...

I have 120 GB of space.. for my entire music collection...

Do you believe.. my 10 years music collection is around 80 GB (may be too small for some of you) and ipod can fit everything...

Now the real issue - If you have 20,000 songs.. then its not possible to find a particular song that easy.. especially when the artist name is "unknown artist" and album name is "unknown album". I have around 8000 songs in that category...

I believe.. its better to buy a 4 - 16 Gb player and copy only those songs which you frequently hear. Put everything else in your portable harddisk (costs almost 1/5th of ipod classic) and use your laptop to listen to that. When you are travelling, take the 4 Gb and listen to songs (almost all portable players do have a built in radio, except for apple products). Radio is a requirement when you have more than 40 channels to listen. We find it very usefull in Dubai, were people listen more to radio than simply songs.. Hats off to my fav RJs in hit96.7 Fm..

But, if you are having a home theatre system with built in ipod dock then I recommed you buy ipod classic rather than ipod touch. This is just becauase of the extra internal memory classic is offering.

My verdict is that if you need radio dont go for ipod. If you need to store all your music and video and like to listen to all of then while on the move, buy ipod classic (come one guys, who is going to search and find a song from 20000 songs? u will be searching the song all the way while travelling and by the time u find it out.. u may have reached back home).

One more thing is the music quality - I dont care for that. All the portable players in the market now give a decent quality sound.

Anyway, I am happy with my ipod classic. I take it when ever i travel. For radio, I have my cute old Nokia N95...