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Summary: Napster Samsung Player Blows AWAY Ipud
Review: First of all, have you seen the iPud? if you're into the plastic Fisher Price baby look, go ahead.Napster is light years ahead iTunes. For starters, Itunes allows only 30 second clips to be heard instead of the whole song like Napster before buying. The last reviewer suggests that pocket pool is possible with the iPud as "with the apple scroll wheel, you can control the iPod without even looking at it (from inside your pant pocket)." Wow! What a feature. I'll take the Samsung Napster additional recording features (cassettes, FM radio, voice, vinyl etc) and FM radio and transmitter instead The gushing iPud reviewer also asks "plus, tell me what other mp3 player has over 50 after market items for it." Of course there are many aftermarket items for the iPud, they are needed to add functionality to the ipud, features that come pre loaded with the Napster Samsung player. Spending more to enhance an iPud may be a hobby for Apple geeks but I'dprefer to buy the product and use it and not have to worry about the pants pocket navigator or other add on items. There is no comparison. The Mac people are smoking cr@ck!!!! They are willing to make religion out of spending $400 for an mp3 player that requires additional purchase to make the thing work the way they want. You can buy the Napster Samsung player and be better off, the Gateway 20GB player for $100 less too.
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Summary: Samsung's Napster Player Blows, Get An iPod
Review: First of all, have you seen that player? if you're into gaudy looking garbage with a lame cat logo, go ahead. iTunes is light years ahead of the napster music browser. I forgot what it was using....music match or something like that. the person that said the key ring is wrong.. well, if you want 64mb or 128mb, sure. but not 20gb to 40gb. plus, with the apple scroll wheel, you can control the iPod without even looking at it (from inside your pant pocket). try that with any other mp3 player. I dare you. plus, tell me what other mp3 player has over 50 after market items for it. you can put fm wireless, media card reader, voice recorders, infrared, bluetooth is coming soon. yeah. plus, every other mp3 on the market only does USB. who the heck wants to take 20 hours just to upload about 20 CD's. firewire can do that in about 6 minutes. I uploaded 10GB in about 15 minutes. plus, it's compatible with iSync which means the iPod automatically syncs with my palm pilot, my address book, my calendar, my to do list, and it supports audio books, text notes, and pretty soon a limited GPS for maps. There is no comparison. the windoze people are smoking cr@ck!!!! they just finally have something that even remotely resemble the iPod and they're trying to run with it.
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Summary: Do your Homework (research!!)
Review: I was EXTREMLY enthusiastic when I heard about the new Ipods. Touch buttons? Cool. 20 gig storage? Sweet! Of course I ran out and bought one, and was thrilled to play games on my way home. Connecting it to my [PC] computer was a snap, and transferring my music was easier than I would have thought possible. Let me digress here to explain my relationship with Apple computers. I have been a PC user all my life, although I did use AppleII back in grade school. Recently I spent the summer with my best friend in Virginia, and used his top-of-the-line eMac. I was blown away by its sleek look, silence, design, and graphically-advanced OS. I was unimpressed with its sluggish load times for Netscape and Explorer, and game performance (program load times not internet connection speed) The first problems came when I tried to play music. Music is arranged according to playlist, album, artist, genre, or a list of every song. Unfortunately if you have downloaded any music all of the artist, song, album and genres are totally mixed up and backwards and you will NEVER be able to find anything you want EVER. Serves my right for illegally downloading music. Wait... this was all independent stuff that was not on any record labels. Terribly annoying that the software groups this way. (Other MP3 players let you group by directory, makes the process soo much more enjoyable.) Other problems abound. ALL the computer noises from Windows along with every computer game I own were put on my Ipod. I didn't want this. Also Legally bought albums frequently feature songs from multiple artists. The "Buena Vista Social Club" is scattered into 12 different pieces that are impossible to listen to in order. I circumvented this whole mess by creating 137 different playlists on my computer (each playlist was one album) and transferring them onto my Ipod. This was horribly time consuming, but it worked. Until the Ipod Crashed. Playing through a list one day I noticed the pod said track 9 when 8 was clearly playing. I looked through the playlist until I found the song that was skipped. I tried to play it and the pod became unresponsive. I tried everything. Rebooting the pod, letting the battery drain and forcing a power-down, went through every aspect of apple's support on their website. This was not even mentioned as a possible problem. Was my case unique? That is what I thought until I met another guy with an Ipod (30 gig) who experienced the exact same problem. Apple is ignoring this problem and hoping it will disappear. The Pod magically fixed itself after three months. During those three months I would charge it up every Sunday and try and restart it, With no luck. It eventually worked, although now the hold switch magically turns on- functioning independently of the physical switch. Today it froze again, so I felt the need to write this review. Check out the reviews on Amazon. The "editorial" review was written by Apple! They were nonbiased, right? WRONG. Earlier in the Pod's career there were many user reviews that were suspiciously Apple-sounding. Look around the net. I don't know what the best HD MP3 player is, but now there is plenty of competition. Don't make the same mistake I did. For more fake apple praise check out the ...review of Apple.com. What nonsense! It is a nice page design, but the raves are actually funny they are so far away from reality. Also check out how despite the fact that my review is honest and non-judgmental there will be an overwhelming negative response to it from Apple's goons. ;) PS- the "features" such as calendar and note utility are nonexistent. Not a single person in the world will ever have the wealth of time required to use them- they totally clash with apple's ease-of-use mentality- basically they are notepad file viewers. UPDATE: I downloaded the ipod latest software from apple and tried to upgrade the ipod's system. Now it doesnt connect to my computer at all. There are hundreads of ghost songs on the Ipod that dont exist/play. This has been an expensive nightmare.
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Summary: Mediocre Player/Strorage device
Review: $400 for this thing is outrageous. All it does is play and store music. It does that well enough but there are plenty of players that can do that for far less-the Rio, the iriver etc. If you are going to spend $400 you should get more than a just a player/storage device and it shouldn't look like a fisher price toy! The Samsung Napster 20GB player costs the same as a 20GB ipod but is far more than just a player/storage device. The Napster Samsung player in addition to being player/storage device like the iPod it ALSO acts as a recorder for all media. The line in/out feature allows you to digitize your entire audio library including CD, old cassettes and Lp' s. It also plays FM and can transform the player into a car stereo with the FM transmitter. In short, the Napster Samsung player can act as you entire stereo system by just adding speakers. Also the Napter service is great. Many people don't understand the benefits to the Napster premium service. They call it renting music (as if renting was a dirty word-people rent houses, cars videos!). First of all on Napster you can buy individual tunes and albums just as you can on iTunes so you don't have to rent. The Napster premium service allows you to listen to almost all songs in the Napster catalogue-the ENTIRE songs not just 30 second clips. You can make playlists of these songs or even download them for playing them off line. The radio stations are also customizable allowing you to skip, delete or add songs (from you own collection or the Napter library) to the 30 + pre set radio stations. All this for just $9.95 a month and you have access to the vast majority of all great songs available on line. With the Samsung Napster player and the Napster premium service you have all you music needs met!
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Summary: Awesome
Review: This product is very cool and i have enjoyed it much.
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Summary: Junk
Review: The ipod is nothing more than a glorified storage device. $400 for nothing but the ability to be tied to iTunes!
I asked my friends what player to buy and they all said iTunes is "awesome". Well its not. If you use napster this is not the player for you. You'd be better off just buying a Gateway keyring mp3 player for $100.
If you want to shell out $400 the Samsung Napster player is the far better choice with more features and the ability to tie into the Napster online music experience. Also the ipod looks cheap as its made with plastic. Some people like these things, but I for one think its all wet.
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Summary: Overpriced closed system
Review: This piece of garbage is the most overpriced overhyped contraption on the market. I returned my today and got a Samsung Napster player. For starters the Ipud only plays some wacky proprietary Apple format.
My new Napster player has an FM tuner, voice recording and works great in the car and with the Napster service which has a greater catolgue and user interface.
I bought into the Apple hype. But returned it after I learned that there was a player that works with the Napster service-the Samsung Napster player.
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Summary: Incredible
Review: I recently bought the 20GB iPod. It is truly an amazing product. It is extremely easy to use and with iTunes, which is free(www.apple.com), you can load all of your songs on to your iPod effortlessly. The only draw backs are that if you don't already have a firewire card, it is strongly recommended. The other drawback is that iTunes does not work with Windows versions 98SE and earlier. Apart from these minor drawbacks, the iPod is great and I highly recommend it for anyone who thoroughly enjoys music.
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Summary: Beware of the iPod
Review: I purchased this for my wife and have been trying all week to install this on a Windows XP desktop and on a Win 2000 notebook.
The installation was horrendous! It caused my WinXP desktop to reboot itself whenever I tried loading iTunes. When attempting to sync I get the Do Not Disconnect warning. I cannot get it to go off. Just about when I was ready to throw it out the window, I saw on the apple.com website hundreds of posts from people having similar problems. It's impossible to find a number to call for tech support. You'd think that something that cost this much would have a live person to talk to...if I can't get it to work in the next few days, I'm going to return it for a refund.
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Summary: PC users should beware
Review: I've revised my initial rating after a few days with my iPod. Right now, I dislike the device, but haven't given up on it yet. It worked great until I tried to install it on a second computer. The installation was torture, freezing the computer several times. When it finally looked like I was going to get it installed properly, the battery died. I'm suspicious of advertised battery life claims.
Now it doesn't work with the original computer either. When I attempt to sync, it just hangs, flashing the stupid Do Not Disconnect warning for hours.
Maybe it's because I'm running Windows 2000 on one machine and XP on the other. Maybe it's because I've got USB 2.0 rather than Firewire. Whatever. iPod is not as PC-friendly as it ought to be.
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