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Review: I've never owned any kind of MP3 player before, and thought long and hard before shelling out my hard-earned readies. Initially I was attracted to the slimmer and IMHO more attractive i-pod minis. However, after some soul-searching I decided that I really needed a bigger hard-drive as my music collection is pretty expansive. I'm very happy with my i-pod photo; it's easy to use, sounds great to me and the photos look pretty good on the screen. I've only got USB 1.1, but it actually works OK. I imagine USB 2.0 or firewire must work like a dream. Pros: As already said, it's very intuitive to use and it reproduces music well. The colour screen is fantastic and you can fit literally hundreds and hundreds of cd's onto the hard-drive. When viewing pictures you flick through them incredibly quickly with the click wheel. Cons: cost -- the extras really start to add up. Once you've outlayed for your iskin, your docking station, av cables etc you can quite comfortably add £100 to the already inflated asking price. The battery life doesn't appear to be anywhere near the 15 hours that Apple claims. With only limited use of backlight, and playing no games or other battery-unfriendly operations, I've found it to last around 8 hours. When first viewing a photo it takes a good few seconds for the photo to appear on the screen, almost as if the ipod is freezing. Once that appears it's fast to scroll on to the next ones, but the initial delay is annoying. Overall: haven't regretted spending my money on this for a second. | 
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