I recently bought a Video iPod 80GB. Here are my opinions about it.

THE GOOD:

• Plenty of storage (80GB, 60GB, 30GB)
• Bright screen at least for latest 5TH generation of video iPod.
• Nice wheel-touch controls.
• Nice additional features like games, additional times, etc.

THE BAD:

• You don’t see videos when you browse the device without the ‘great’ iTunes.
• You don’t see photos when you browse the device files without iTunes, images are stored in 512MB files called like: F1019_2.ithmb
• You don’t see music folders or mp3 files while you browse the device from computer without the iTunes.
• Doesn’t have a speaker, the click made by the wheel is the only sound you can hear without earphones.
• iTunes stops responding rather than showing a “please wait…” or “working…” message.
• Doesn’t have a radio, you can only access a radio if you buy additional external device (buy a radio), then you can see radio controls on iPod.
• You cannot delete files directly from iPod (without computer) ?
• While browsing images from device and you switch fast through images there ARE delays (seconds). You will notice that some images ware skipped after delay was over.
• Battery is charging each time I want to copy something (general USB MP3 player problem). Battery life is considerable longer if you charge it completely each time and only if was empty each time; if iPod charges each time I want to copy one song then the battery will go bad. would be nice to have an option or switch “charging on/of”.
• In addition the ones above sometimes the player resets when it is hit just a bit, it seems very sensitive to movements, I think this can also damage the hard drive surface.

Here are some Videos of the iPod, iPod menu interface, ipod games (zuma tetris). Please excuse the low quality

Video, ipod menu and Zuma game:

Video, Zuma Game:

Video, Tetris Game:

Other Images:

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