I did put it on the charger today and it charged for about 45 mins. The battery life is very good though, even with all of the hard drive starts.I ran it for about 5 hours so far and the battery meter is still full. Save the cover art scroll for when you show it to someone else.It's really only for flash!It takes many hdd starts to go through 900+cds.Even browsing by artist starts the hdd. Not Thrilled! I didn't like that at all, but I usually look through genres to find what I want to hear and that doesn't start the hdd, unt il you pick the artist. The more advanced munues are ok if you like flash, but they make the hard drive run while just scrolling through menues.This will of course put more wear on the hdd. I've seen some reviews that say the sound quality isn't the same.I personally do not notice any difference.Think about where you listen to music and on what speakers, earbuds.I think these people are just being picky.There is always backround noise no matter where you are. Read full reviewįirst off let me say that I do not believe there is any portable mp3 device with this much storage.This is one of the main reasons I purchased this one, my 5.5 gen 80 gb ipod was almost full. I would recommend this iPod if you have a large music collection that you want to take with you all the time. The menus still take some time to move between. Apple just recently updated the firmware to 1.0.3? The scroll wheel moves much smoothly now, but not like the iPod photo or the Nano 2G. Sometimes the scroll wheel would not even move and cycling through the menus took a while because of the hard drive. I was slightly disappointed when I first received the iPod classic. I ended up selling it because it was so hard to choose 16gb of music out of my 115gb iTunes Library. The Touch was great at first, but was bulky and was most often mistaken for an iPhone. I purchased a iPod Touch when they first came out to replace my iPod Nano.

It got the job done very well and very fast due to the flash memory instead of a hard drive. The nano was absolutely great! I still love and recommend it to this day. My second iPod was a 2nd Generation iPod Nano. This was an amazing iPod, but scratched very easily. My first iPod was a 4th Generation iPod photo.

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