So my old 5.5 G iPod was having some audio issues the other day so I tried to troubleshoot the problem through a number of different methods. One of these methods was to repeatedly move the audio connector up and down the audio jack. Well, while I was doing this my hands slipped and the iPod fell through my hand, but in fell in such an unexpected and precarious way that the audio connector snapped it two leaving part of it still inside the audio jack. I tried everything to get it out, tweezers, magnets, shaking, everything. The part that broke off and wound up lodged inside my iPod isn't budging. I'm going to take it up with Sony now since it was their faulty headphones that pretty much broke my trusty iPod.
In any event, I found myself iPod-less, and sadly enough, it made me realize that my iPod was almost like my BFF. I carry it around everywhere and it constantly keeps me company on the train, the bus, the gym, etc etc. So I decided to buy a new iPod after much deliberation (okay, maybe more like a day of deliberation). I didn't want to get one of the new 6G iPod classics because I'm not a fan of the whole split screen UI. I didn't want to wait until the iPhone came out because even at 16GB capacities, it wasn't large enough to comfortably house my entire music collection, and I didn't feel like playing favourites and only carrying around a certain number of songs. I didn't want to go to eBay and buy a used 5G iPod because doing it that way would have been a crapshoot with unknown consequences. So... what did I do? I decided to go for the 6G iPod classic (in silver), but I chose to get a refurbished one from the online Apple store. I've heard nothing but good things about Apple's stringent refurbished product process. They replace the entire casing on the iPod so you don't get someone's finger prints all over it, they test each and every single unit for hard drive quality, audio quality and battery quality, and then they include all new accessories for the pack-ins. So I figured I'd bite the bullet on the new UI as long as I got it at a heavily discounted price.
Regardless of my opinion on how the interface looks, getting a new iPod is always exciting and I pretty much tore through the packaging this morning after the FedEx guy left.
