much ado about music and phones
It's time to break the piggy bank again. :(
My 18 months old mp3 player went kaput completely today. It couldn't start at all, with a message saying "Formatting: Disk Check. Wait...". While it's nice to know that the player has built-in disk error checking, the problem is it stays that way! Now all of a sudden I'm faced with a dilemma.
You see, I've been toying with the idea of getting a new phone. So I could either choose to:
Speaking of fruity gadgets, you've probably heard about this high profile court case. While I understand that that is a not-happy-will-sue nation, we all know what happen to fools and their money. If you don't do your bloody research before buying, don't blame others if you get a crappy product!
Anyway I prefer everything together, so I would rather choose b). As I've mentioned previously, Nokia's coming up with the N91, a.k.a. Steve Jobs' wet dream (some weird fetish if you ask me!). But then that won't arrive till mid next year, and it'll probably cost a bomb or two even after trading in the kitchen sink. And Oh's neither filthy nor rich.
So I could get something like the Sony Ericsson K750i or W800i. Then I'd add a 2GB Memory Stick Pro Duo. But that stick'll cost like 300 bucks, and I could get a standalone 1GB mp3 player for less than that amount! What a dilemma!
And I'm not finished yet. Recently I've started listening to my player while running (Is that why it went kaput in the first place?), so if I'm going to buy such a phone I'll probably still get a really cheap 256MB flash player just for the running.
WTF, I hear you say. Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated?
My 18 months old mp3 player went kaput completely today. It couldn't start at all, with a message saying "Formatting: Disk Check. Wait...". While it's nice to know that the player has built-in disk error checking, the problem is it stays that way! Now all of a sudden I'm faced with a dilemma.
You see, I've been toying with the idea of getting a new phone. So I could either choose to:
a) get a separate phone and an mp3 player, orThe problem with a) is that there's currently no player out there that I really like. If I do buy one, I'll probably get one with gigabytes of memory. I could do with a Zen Neeon, but then I'm not crazy about it. And I'm not going to buy those expensive, fruity gadgets because I'm not falling for their marketing shenanigans. At least not until they decide to put in the FM radio anyway!
b) buy a phone with FM radio and huge memory to double as an mp3 player.
Speaking of fruity gadgets, you've probably heard about this high profile court case. While I understand that that is a not-happy-will-sue nation, we all know what happen to fools and their money. If you don't do your bloody research before buying, don't blame others if you get a crappy product!
Anyway I prefer everything together, so I would rather choose b). As I've mentioned previously, Nokia's coming up with the N91, a.k.a. Steve Jobs' wet dream (some weird fetish if you ask me!). But then that won't arrive till mid next year, and it'll probably cost a bomb or two even after trading in the kitchen sink. And Oh's neither filthy nor rich.
So I could get something like the Sony Ericsson K750i or W800i. Then I'd add a 2GB Memory Stick Pro Duo. But that stick'll cost like 300 bucks, and I could get a standalone 1GB mp3 player for less than that amount! What a dilemma!
And I'm not finished yet. Recently I've started listening to my player while running (Is that why it went kaput in the first place?), so if I'm going to buy such a phone I'll probably still get a really cheap 256MB flash player just for the running.
WTF, I hear you say. Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated?
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1 Comments:
disk-based are supposedly more vulnerable, but they don't necessarily crash more.. am i contradicting myself?
anyway mine that went kaput was flash.
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