MP3 players: the best way to get mugged

So I got a new Samsung MP3 Player. I refuse to give in to the iPod fad even though, in a way, I've lost the battle a LONG time ago by getting an MP3 player in the first place.


But what I love about my player is that it plays music (obviously), videos, FM radio, displays pictures and texts, and actually has flash games. I love the features, plus I only got it for 125$ on sale. An iPod sans FM radio with those features cost around 250-350$ USD. And it's at around 30-80gb GB. For the love of Pete, my laptop and desktop are 30 and 80gb, respectively (even though my mother swears that when she bought the laptop, it was supposed to be 80gb: I blame those slackers at Dell).

The only things I don't quite like it that if I connect the player to the computer, it automatically charges by itself (and if I remember correctly, frequent charging is bad for Li-Ion batteries); and it needs a program to transfer files (I won't be able to use it to transfer files from one computer to another because the program is huge); the buttons are, well, buttons (I remember that one of my friends, who also had a Samsung, had laptop touch-screen type buttons which I believe should last longer), and it doesn't have uber-cool concert mode. Bleh.

But those are small prices to pay. I believe that I got a great deal. Now I'm in the process of downloading. Damned Videotron has a 1-gig downloading limit, so I have to be very careful, seeing as how last time I tried to download a film, I paid the price (50$ instead of the usual 20$... I could've just bought the DVD, fer the love of Pete). Some of the songs are of bad quality, and for some reason, there are songs that I was sure I downloaded, just for the life of me, couldn't find it, no matter how long I looked.

Anyways, back to the title, it's true, those white iPod speaker buds are the best way for you to get mugged. 300$ Almost enough for them to ignore the 500$ deisgner sunglasses that you'll never wear again as soon as it's out of fashion. And speaking of those iPhones... Here's one person that's not going to get one when it lands in Canadian retail stores. Heck, I don't even want a cellphone. Why? Cause I probably won't need one anytime soon. But who knows? I can indulge myself every now and then and be hypocritical for a while.