Originally posted by: Icepick
Originally posted by: pikachu656
Go with the Nano. It's smaller than the Samsung plus it uses flash memory, which means no moving parts for the drive. less chance of failure. My friend has one and loves it. I would like one too but I bought my color ipod less than a year ago, and if I was to upgrade it would be the 60g ipod video.
I've got a Nano and am happy with it. It has plenty of features. The part I like best is that it uses solid state flash memory instead of a hard drive. I can take it running and even put it in my pocket and forget about it and not worry about a hard drive getting damaged or malfunctioning.
If you do get the Nano the very next purchase should be a case. It really does attract scratches very easily.
The ipod nano looks pretty good. I mentioned the Samsung YP-5Z, and it is a flash memory player too. HxW is the same as the nano, but it is twice as thick. Battery life on the Samsung is 35 hours vs 14 hours on the Ipod Nano.
So it looks like the trade off between the two is size vs battery life. If I do get the Nano, a case is definitely in order since I've read that scratches are one of the biggist gripes.
BTW, yeah, I test drove a Toyota RAV4 the other day and figured out that MP3 stereo means it will play them on CD's. It does have an aux plug-in for MP3 players or even cassette I suppose.
I"m not really considering microdrive at this time. One of a number of reasons I am finally looking for an MP3 is size and NO SKIPPING. People say the microdrives can skip. I dont' need tons of space, so I'm thinking 2-4 GB will do me. Ultimately I may opt for two players - one for rollerblading etc (small and portable) and something a little bigger and longer batterylife.
I definitely don't like the Ipod Shuffle with no screen. I predict Apple with replace it someday with a basic screen.