Buying your very first mp3 player means that there are some things that you'll need to decide on before you make you final choice and start loading your new iPod with music.
You'll need to decide how much room you want for your iPod, since there are several different sizes for you to choose from. If you have a lot of music that you want to put onto your iPod you'll probably want to have the large iPod, which is 40 gig. The two smaller choices for an iPod include 10 to 20 gigs. Any of these sizes of iPods will hold more than enough songs for most people.
Keep in mind that you can always delete those songs that you rarely listen to and replace them with those songs that you listen to more often. You'll also need to determine what type of a display window that you want your iPod to have. The Apple iPod, in the 10, 20, and 40 gig sizes has a great screen display that attractive and easy to use.
If you're too concerned about viewing what song is playing then you can choose the iPod Shuffle. The iPod Shuffle is new this year and will play your songs in a random shuffle. The one drawback about the iPod Shuffle is that it doesn't hold as much data as the larger gig iPods.
There are many reviews that you can find online or in magazines to help you decide which iPod is best for you and your music listening tastes. The iPod has become the world's most popular MP3 player of all time. This is due to both its great functionality and its great design.
Apple products continue to be top quality electronics that you can count on. Just look at the reputation of other Apple PC products that are becoming more popular each year.
With its latest iteration of the iPod Touch, Apple has added two highly coveted features -- external volume controls and a speaker -- and lowered prices, too. However, the Touch's physical changes are incremental, and they don't bring the device up to the level of its sibling, the iPhone 3G.
To be sure, the lower prices make the Touch a more attractive purchase than before, coming in at $229 for 8GB (previously $299), $299 for 16GB, and $399 for 32GB (down from $499). The prices are more in line with what Apple and AT&T charge for the iPhone 3G: $199 for 8GB, and $299 for 16GB. (You don't have to pay a monthly fee to use the Touch, though.) While the amount is still more than what you might pay for competing media players, you get more with the Touch.