My iPod Died Last Night

took my ipod into the apple store today

guy looked at it and confirmed it was completely f*cked up.

went in the back room and got me a brand new one

so i got my ipod back now

Nice one mate! Same happened to me a while back, but my iPod was 18 months old so the warranty didnt cover it Luckily i just had my student loan through so the financial damage wasn't too shocking. I was lost for the week or so i didnt have mine.

Speaking of i-Pods, on average, how many years or months is it before everyone's battery is dead? I got an i-Pod mini (I know, it's a bit old) last July, and the batteries are weak. I hook it up to the computer for a few hours, and yet it still says that the batteries are low or whatever. From what I hear, if you attempt to send it in to Apple for a "new" battery, they won't actually change the battery, but send you a refurbished one that's not yours! In other words, you won't get your actual i-Pod back. Do they think people are just going to buy new i-Pods every single year? Sure, ideally, I would like to, but as a student, it's financially hard to do so, and is Apple really that greedy? I want to keep my i-Pod at least until next year (my mum will sigh and shake her head if I say I want a new one now), and I'm trying not to use it as much, and I'm trying not to fumble around with the buttons so much, but still...

Bit irked that the mp3 player I'd actually want _still_ doesn't seem to exist.

Personally I _hate_ those devices that insist on using built-in rechargables. Firstly you can't carry spares and have to take the whole thing 'out of service' while you recharge it, and inevitably you forget and it runs out while you are out and you end up carrying a useless hunk of plastic around with you all day. And secondly they apparently die entirely after a while (quite a short while in the case of some ipods, I'm told).

But even those that are properly designed and take standard AA/AAA batts mostly have such rubbish battery life as to make them more trouble than they are worth (8 hours??? That's barely 2 days listening).

Power and fragility issues seem, in my opinion, to mean HD players aren't worth bothering with, but even most flash based ones have crap batt life - if Sony can do it with their NWE models why can't anyone else? Even Sony themselves now seem to have forgotten how they did it, reverting to rubbish built in batteries for the newer models.

Currently I'm reasonably happy with my Sony network thingy with its 50-70 hour AAA batt life, but 1Gb is looking a bit small and the 2G models don't take standard batts. Also there are no SD card (£25 for 2G) using players with decent battery life.

Wake me up when there's a 4Gb+ solid state or SD-card using player that takes AAAs and gives 50 hours or so batt life!

If it included a radio permanently tuned to Radio Four that'd be nice also (especially if it automatically switched itself off when the Archers came on).

My second iPod (20GB, think it was 3rd generation? Not too sure..) lasted quite a while, over 18 months. never seemed to have a problem with the battery life, it was the the harddrive that fucked up. My current iPod is one of the video ones, the battery always seems to go down faster, but it'll just stay on red for aggges before it runs out, specially if i have the backlight off

I have a Gen 4 (an older, black and white non photo one) iPod, 20 gb, that I got christmas '04 and it still runs pretty well. Battery life is a shorter, but nothing that bad.

I'm really satisfied with my iPod.

Anyway, glad to see your got a new one up and running dude.