- Average user rating: 3.5 stars out of 205 reviews Back to product review
- My rating: 0 stars
Full user review
-
7 out of 8 people found this review helpful
4.5 stars
"Not perfect, but darn close!"
Pros: Excellent sound quality, videos show wonderfully, sleek and thin
Cons: Battery life is poor, scratches very easily
Summary: I have wanted one of these since they day I heard they were available. Wasn't it a great surprise when my husband gave it to me for an early Christmas gift yesterday. (He knew that I would be playing for the entire day!)
It's my first iPod, so I am learning my way around, the click wheel, and how to manage the items on my iPod so that they aren't necessarily in sync with my iTunes.
I transfered over 300 photos onto it and they look wonderful on the screen. I then put 650 songs on it. The sound quality is absolutely amazing! My husband, with the music degree, absolutely could not get over the sound. We were hearing parts of symphonies and underlying parts of music that we have never heard before! Absolutely incredible.
I then went and downloaded the first three episodes of Knight Rider. As a child of the 80s, this was my favorite show. To be able to watch it on my black iPod was incredible. Again, excellent sound quality, and the video is wonderful! Very personal experience, as the reviewer stated, and I laid in bed watching without bothering him. I will be downloading many more videos to watch!
Now, unfortunately, the flaws that I have found...
After watching one 48 minute show, my battery life was already 1/2 down. This is definitely not a travel iPod or one that you could watch lots of shows on an airplane trip. Once I was done with the video, and went back to music, the battery life evened out and seemed to hold steady.
Secondly, I was very dismayed at how easily the entire front scratched. I have owned it less than 24 hours and have fine scratches all over it. (Luckily, none on the screen.) However, the black shows the fingerprints and scratches much more easily than the white. I have already gotten online and ordered the three set of the skintight iPod covers from Speck.
http://www.speckproducts.com/vid-skintight.htm
I then ordered maintanence cleaner from icleaner. It says that it's for new iPods with find scratches, so that's what I need.
http://www.ipodcleaner.com/products.html
As much as I love the glossy finish, as gingerly as I was handling it, it obviously doesn't stay that way. I was even using the soft cloth that I got at my eye doctor's that I use to clean my glasses. I will be leaving it here on the desk and not carrying it around until the above products arrive.
So, if you're looking to upgrade, or have never owned an iPod, I highly recommend this one. Music, photos, and videos all in one at excellent quality. Have fun playing!
Updated
I almost forgot...
As a teacher, my husband purchased it for me on the Apple Education Store.
http://store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/routingpage.html
With the discount, it was $269 plus free shipping. Every family is allowed one iPod a year as long as you are a student or an educator. Excellent program that Apple offers and I greatly appreciate it!
- 1 reply to this review
-
What good is a 30gb mp3 player with no battery and no battery charger
the available capacity in 30GB iPOD is only 27.8 GB. 2.2 GB i salready taken by apple for its applications.
If you kept changing the songs with the backlight on - then the battery life would only be 6 hrs - dont be surprised.
the headphones are big and hurt my ears they are loud too.
Itunes makes life more miserable. If you had folders and subfolders and you are used to sortig your mp3 collections that way then you got to change yourself a big way.
Pros:
great mucic clarity
sleek
good user interface
Where to buy
Apple iPod (30GB, video, black):
$399.99
| store | price | in stock? | rating |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Amazon.com Marketplace
|
$399.99 | Yes |
|
%20user%20review%20and%20rating%20-%20CNET%20Reviews&srcUrl=http://reviews.cnet.com/mp3-players/apple-ipod-30gb-video/4864-6490_7-31556112-3.html){kind=small}