Bornieo: Fully Zune'd

Well, I do love my iPod, but I also have an iRiver. I don't find the iRivers any less expensive than an iPod. So, as usual, I'm not being helpful to you.

I swear, if you keep this negativity up I might have to bad mojo you for it...though I'm not sure that would serve my purpose. :p

But what features does it have? What are the differences? Pricing is one small aspect.

I have thrown my Zen Nano Plus from the second floor balcony of an apartment complex, and it survived.

The Zen Vision has survived a tumble down the stairs (I was not holding it at the time - I treat my electronics better than that)

Who's being negative? :p

Ah, sorry! The iRiver I own has far fewer features than the 60Gb iPod. It is an older model. The best thing about the iRiver, for me, is that it is more compact than the iPod and is about the size of a small, short maglite flashlight. It holds less data, has fewer bells and whistles. No video on the iRiver. The iRiver did allow me to record audio, which was why I bought it. Small microphone and 72 hours of capacity, makes for easy interviewing!

Anyway, here's a comparison I found online. It may help with some questions about the various toys available.

Call me a lemming, I love the iPod, I've had no trouble with it at all and it has more than serves my needs. I don't regret shelling out the bucks for it.

How is the sound quality on the recording aspect? Say if you wanted to record some sort of "live" event?

this is what I have

I have found the sound quality to be acceptable. I use this more for verbal interviewing and have not tested it out for bootleg use. Of course, I have not recorded anything like a concert with this although due to the small size, I could sneak this in to the opera house easily. Believe me, I've thought about it.

The mic in it seems to pick up very well, and there is an option to make adjustments to the microphone level.

I may still have some basic audio on it from my last interview, if I do, I will post a link to give you an idea of how it sounds. I'll let you know once I get home later on tonight

Three words: Proprietary music format. The inability to replace the battery also factors in.

Features other than disk space? Video isn't a big need at the moment, although that could change. I do like the FM tuner on my mini-disk player.