A cou­ple of months ago I got myself an iPod touch because it’s pretty. It sure is pretty and flashy, man­aged to turn heads every­time I pull it out of my pocket. Great gad­get, I must say. It’s like hav­ing a lit­tle mac.

After toy­ing (and get­ting used) with it for two months I switched back to my lovely Sony­Er­ic­s­son w910i. Here’s why:

I can­not skip tracks on the go.

Well I can, but it’s a has­sle and it’s very dan­ger­ous both for me and the iPod. To skip tracks on iPod touch I have to: press the home but­ton > slide on the screen to unlock > press next but­ton > tap the lock button.

Here’s how I skip tracks on my w910i: press and hold the god­damned vol­ume button.

Skip­ping tracks eas­ily is essen­tial. Period.

It is rel­a­tively big, and the screen is some­what feels vulnerable.

That’s why I’m afraid of putting it inside my pocket because I might break it or scratch the screen. It’s too beau­ti­ful. Dif­fer­ent with the w910, it feels tough and I can lit­er­ally shake it.

The ear­phone is not that great.

It’s noth­ing spe­cial, it’s just the reg­u­lar iPod ear­phone, I got the same one when I bought a shuf­fle a few months ago. It’s not that I’ve very sen­si­tive ear, it’s just that the ear­phones don’t reduce any noice from out­side so I still hear the vroom vrooms and honk honks. And it sucks :(

I’m not say­ing that iPod Touch is not a good gad­get, it’s just that I can’t use it opti­mally so it only resides in the pocket of my back­pack now. Sad, yes. But I hope there will come the time when I can use it again. And also I’m not say­ing that w910 is a bet­ter gad­get, it just hap­pen to be the best music player for me now.

And of course, there are some neat fea­tures I miss from the iPod that w910 doesn’t have. Genius playlist. It fuck­ing rocks dude, srsly.

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