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32 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Quickly died a death, 21 Aug 2009
This review is from: 2GB MP3 Shuffle Player In Pink - 500 Songs (Electronics)
I've spent years consciously ignoring the explosion in technology. I ooh and aaah at it from afar (and in private) but I clung on to my CD player for dear life. The reasons are three-fold. Firstly, am inherently suspicious of the build quality of modern technology. This bizarre fascination with things being smallersmallersmaller (am I the only person with no desire to feel like Gulliver?), leading me to believe that perhaps size is more important than longevity. Secondly, once you get caught up in needing to keep up, you find yourself hocking your organs in order to be able to pay for the latest shiny thing. (My left kidney has been twitching ever since I bought a wii.) Finally, I should have been born in the 1920s and believe all things technology are from the devil.
And so it is with this MP3 player. I finally plumped for a cheap one a month ago... ease myself in, you know. Decide whether it was this or my boom-box, yo. Ah, I admit it, I got caught up in buying MP3 songs from Amazon. I was drunk on the power! And for a month it was wonderful. Download, drag and drop, drink in the deliciousness of the songs you love.
But a week ago, I started noticing it wasn't holding its charge too well. You charge it by hooking it up to your computer via the USB port, and they provide the little cord thingy. I was initially getting about 3 hours of play and yet, without my using it much, it was suddenly down to around half an hour. Well, this morning, fully charged, I clipped it to me trous, took it with me to go food shopping (if you *must* rummage through root vegetables, do it while Irene Cara hollers about What a Feeling it is) and it died within 5 minutes. It had nothing whatsoever. Having repeated the exercise when I got back, it once again died within 5 minutes. So within the space of a month, with limited use, it's now useless. My suspicions were well-founded.
It seems the other reviewers haven't had the same problem, so there may be something afoot. I'm wondering if perhaps it isn't a sign... or perhaps I just got unlucky. In any event, please allow me to shake my fist and return to my well-lit hole in the ground. Oil-lamp. Much better than yer evil *bulbs*.
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