Oh Dog, iPods are so coooooool. Sooo, sooo cooooool. Do you have an iPod? Of course you do, 'cos they're soooo super cool! They're also total shit - the sound quality is horrendous compared to rival Sony/Creative products. Why the hell do we all still use iPods? Once my iPhone contract runs out I won't be any more.

Despite all of it's "I do this, this AND this" attitude, I only use it for three things: music, phone, games. It does the latter two well, but the sound quality, just like all the iPods is bollocks - I can't believe 6 or so generations in, and this problem still hasn't been fixed - where is the bass? With each iteration of the iPod comes a superficial hardware upgrade with little/no focus on improving the software, which coughs out minimal bass, masked by the heavy usage of mid-tones. Even expensive in-ear earphones that deliver fantastic sound from a Sony Walkman cannot hide the deficiency of the iPod.

Seriously, find a mate with a Sony-Ericson W995 or any other Sony Walkman/Sony-Ericson Walkman phone and take a listen; I swear you'll struggle to enjoy your music the next time you listen to it through an iPod. The iPhone, as I said above, I find superb as an all-in-one device, but the iPod, solely as a music player (excluding the touch) is so much fail as a product. Even the streamlined, easy-to-use nature of the all-in-one iPhone isn't enough to justify it's use as a primary source of portable music for me anymore as I listen to music daily and like to really appreciate all the different aspects of it, which I find a lot of the time are lost when listening through an iDevice.

On the other hand... iPods... they are sooo coooool, with their funky-fresh silhouette advert, and the fact that they're from Apple - seriously, if you think like this, you're a dick. Get a music player that actually manages to play music well and leave your iPod on the table with your lense-less Topman glasses and pointy shoes. Twat.