fjdouse
UNIX - Live Free or Die
This is a rant, it's probably covered in other posts but I have to vent this poison lest I take this lovely iPod and smash it with a hammer...
I've finally shelled out the dosh for an iPod, looks great, a 30GB video iPod all in black, I was so pleased when I got it last week.... but since then...
I am finding using it an uphill struggle, this wheel thing I guess if you've been using iPods a while it may be quite good, I find it unpleasant to use, it's inaccurate, I've nearly deafened myself by trying to turn the volume up a bit only to have it fly up to the max. It takes some bloody co-ordination and practice to hit a menu item and not go flying to the wrong one. User error? Probably.
On many occasions I cannot turn the frakkin thing off, the backlight dims then comes back on. Resetting makes no difference. Certainly a hardware/software fault, NOT GOOD ENOUGH. At this present moment it is just sitting there, draining power because IT WILL NOT TURN OFF!
The battery life is crap, pure crap, just playing with it for 15mins after a FULL charge leaves the battery at 50%, oh someone has told me the iPod battery guage is notoriously innacurrate, is that so? WTF? Why hasn't Apple fixed it then?? Even so, watching a 25min cartoon, kills the battery leaving it in the red and wanting a charge. Music is to be tested properly since I've not taken it outside yet.
The device LOOKS fantastic, but the looks are deceiving, even with the flimsy pouch and my near-obsessive-compulsion for keeping things immaculate, the pouch is filthy already and the unit is already scratched because the plastic used is USELESS. They could have done much better than this, and for the price it is CRIMINAL that they haven't.
I should have learned this from my time buying Sony crap, bling does not equal quality.
"iCal syncing, ooh..." I thought, yeah right, even after enabling timezone guff in iCal, the appointment times on the iPod are all wrong, out by an hour each time, another USELESS function.
No dock, no charger, basically it's USB charging or go to hell. Of course, this can be fixed buy spending EVEN MORE money.
In short, I'm beginning to hate this thing, if I had bought it from a shop rather than online, I'd take it back, shout and scream and get my money back. As it is, I bought it off eBay, the seller won't re-imburse me as it's not faulty, it's just a bit crummy, actually crap is more descriptive.
If you're thinking about buying one, do a LOT of research first, I thought I had, only to find niggling problems which I've SINCE discovered other users have too..
I've finally shelled out the dosh for an iPod, looks great, a 30GB video iPod all in black, I was so pleased when I got it last week.... but since then...
I am finding using it an uphill struggle, this wheel thing I guess if you've been using iPods a while it may be quite good, I find it unpleasant to use, it's inaccurate, I've nearly deafened myself by trying to turn the volume up a bit only to have it fly up to the max. It takes some bloody co-ordination and practice to hit a menu item and not go flying to the wrong one. User error? Probably.
On many occasions I cannot turn the frakkin thing off, the backlight dims then comes back on. Resetting makes no difference. Certainly a hardware/software fault, NOT GOOD ENOUGH. At this present moment it is just sitting there, draining power because IT WILL NOT TURN OFF!
The battery life is crap, pure crap, just playing with it for 15mins after a FULL charge leaves the battery at 50%, oh someone has told me the iPod battery guage is notoriously innacurrate, is that so? WTF? Why hasn't Apple fixed it then?? Even so, watching a 25min cartoon, kills the battery leaving it in the red and wanting a charge. Music is to be tested properly since I've not taken it outside yet.
The device LOOKS fantastic, but the looks are deceiving, even with the flimsy pouch and my near-obsessive-compulsion for keeping things immaculate, the pouch is filthy already and the unit is already scratched because the plastic used is USELESS. They could have done much better than this, and for the price it is CRIMINAL that they haven't.
I should have learned this from my time buying Sony crap, bling does not equal quality.
"iCal syncing, ooh..." I thought, yeah right, even after enabling timezone guff in iCal, the appointment times on the iPod are all wrong, out by an hour each time, another USELESS function.
No dock, no charger, basically it's USB charging or go to hell. Of course, this can be fixed buy spending EVEN MORE money.
In short, I'm beginning to hate this thing, if I had bought it from a shop rather than online, I'd take it back, shout and scream and get my money back. As it is, I bought it off eBay, the seller won't re-imburse me as it's not faulty, it's just a bit crummy, actually crap is more descriptive.
If you're thinking about buying one, do a LOT of research first, I thought I had, only to find niggling problems which I've SINCE discovered other users have too..