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Hey everyone! My wife has lost a lot of weight in the past year and she decided a few months ago she wanted to walk in a marathon. She has been out walking and getting ready, but I wanted to get her a nice congratulations present/mother's day present. I was looking around at Best Buy tonight and I would like input...
iPod Nano, 8Gb, 24hr battery, $149.99
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Zune MP3 player, 8Gb, 20hr battery, $139.99
I would love to hear what anyone has to say, good or ill about either of these players, the online services that you can get music from, etc. I would like to pick it up and squirrel it away while she is away this weekend at a Girl Scout function. Thanks in advance for any info you can give me!
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I personally love my Zune. There is so much to do with it, and I also bought the 8gb one. The fact you can also customize the background with your own pictures and add files, and get podcasts make it far above the iPOD in my opinion. There are games, and so many things you can do with it.
As a person who works with car audio, I can tell you from personal experience that the Zune and its stock headphones have a far better sound quality than anything I have seen on my old iPODs.
Hope this helps!
EDIT: here in Canada where I am there is a sale at the Source where you can get the 160gb Zune for the price of the 8gb!!!!
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I've never had an iPod, but I've been very happy with my 30GB Zune so far. I've also never used the webstore related to it, so, sorry I have no reviews for that aspect. I've seen far more sales on Zunes than I have iPods, and you can get ones with tons more storage for a lower cost many times.
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I think she'll appreciate the iPod much more. I bought my wife an iPod Nano for Mother's Day last year, and she's getting a new red one this year.
iPod Nano, 8GB, multiple colors, free laser engraving, free gift wrapping, free shipping.
Do you really want to be there after she's had to show off her clunky, brick-like, dung-brown Zune to all her iPod-loving girlfriends...?
PS:
My take on storage and why I always go with the lower-capacity model when battery life is the same:
Both the iPod nano and Zune 8/16 have the same battery life: 24 hours of audio, and 4 hours of video. If the device is mostly for audio, do you have over 2000 songs you might listen to in a day's time? If it's for video, whether you buy the 8 or 16 models, you still only get 4 hours of video (in battery life), so the 16 GB model lets you store more choices you won't have time to get to before the battery dies.
If you're weighing an iPod, I suggest you look at your audio collection.
I have a 32 GB iPod Touch and an 80 GB iPod classic. Both store about 5,000 songs (with the former holding 2 movies, 1,000 pictures, and multiple applications) and room to spare. The compression technologies must have changed from 2 years ago when I got my Classic.
Save yourself some dough and look at how many songs you have versus what it will hold.
Edit: There's a Nike+ dongle that fits in the shoe, or attaches with separate purchase, that tracks running time and can be used online to "compete" versus other people. http://www.apple.com/ipod/nike/
