Apple iPod Classic - 3rd Gen

Usually electronics products break or become obsolete after a few years. The one item I've still got after more than 5 years is my iPod. I use it every day to play videos and the battery is surprisingly good still. It has been dropped and scratched but still works perfectly. It has encouraged me to switch to Apple computers and I will be using the company for other items too in future.

Overall this iPod is the best small or portable mp3 player in the market.

really miss the large wheel on the newer ipod but this just isnt practicle anymore for modern living. Why have one when i can integrate it all on to my new iphone?

scroll pad is awful, library is cumbersome and user unfriendly - Itunes is awful. Too many faults to list and it is the only way of loading music onto the Ipod. Sound quality is iffy

If you are the sort of person who would buy something because it looks nice, the iPod is the very fella for you, because I have nothing else good to say about it.

It has no new features compared with my Archos apart from podcasts and does everything else less well - plus the archos does loads of snazzy stuff with add ons such as remote control and video links to tv, card readers.

my sony ericsson mobile phone is a far superior player.

It has a lot of potential musically.It can be proved best for your time pass when you are bored or can entertain you when you are emotionally said.I think Apple have Created this product just for touching soul.

I am now on my second iPod. The first one lasted 18 months - un repairable - threw it away and bought a 30gb. Had this just over 12 months. There was a connection problem with it - would only work by squeezing the bottom right hand corner. Took it back to the shop in Manchester - had to make an appointment to see one of their "geniuses" I thought he was going to be able to repair it - he looked at it and told me what I already knew, that there was a loose collection. No problem he said I can sort this today for you, Just give me £109 and I will give you a replacement one. I don't want a replacement one I said - just repair it please. He said you giving me £109 and me giving you a new one is a classed as a repair.

Apple sell refurbished iPods -

(guess what - my faulty one would then be sent back to Apple who would probably refurbish it and sell it on again). A lot of money to be made out of faulty goods ehh!!

I purchased an iPod nano in November 2007, sent it in for repair in December and January 5 & 15. This last time it was returned to me with missing parts and when I called to talk with them they stated it was not their fault and refused to correct their mess. I now have over $400 into this useless machine and will never purchase from Apple again.

It just seemed like I spent lots of time looking up the i pod online support pages. Unless you want to pay another 50 or so to have the warrenty extended for a second year, you could end up I pod less in less than 2 years. When I am forking out this much money for something, I want it to last for a few years.

I had said I would never buy an I pod and I got taken in and jumped on the band wagon - I won't again.

Over-rated. Apple has great sales department and advertising. Unstable machine, not good service. Case scratches too easily even when kept protected.

When it was working I could not really complain. The only annoying thing was that I had a lot of hassle with their software and some songs were louder then the other so I have to keep changing the volume, that was very inconvenient when I was on the move. When the battery died and Apple told me on their website that it cost £166 to replace it I was shocked. I bought a battery from the ipodstop.co.uk for £17 but I could not open the iPod. After reading that Apple planned to have short life-span, fragile hard drives, and planned obsolescence for their iPods I decided not to waste a single penny any more on the Apple products and to buy something else.