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When pressed with the issue of whether or not spending an obscene amount of money on electronic gadgets, often times most people don’t think of the environment they’ll be using it in - or what type of activity they’ll be doing. They just walk directly into an apple store, and buy the shiniest thing they can find. In today’s world that would be either the Ipod touch or of course the Iphone. What if I said I just purchased the shuffle? (about 10 days before the 3rd generation came out, thank gosh!) Most would look at me with 3 heads and say I’m crazy. Well here I am defending a purchase that most say is in vain, I completetely disagree.

The reality of this situation is that while an iPhone would make my life incredibly easy, it would also sink me well over 1300.00 into debt just to be able to receive a call on the device. At this point you’re probably like “what, that’s absurd! you can’t be right”. Well I am, because I not only have one, but two accounts with sprint. That poses problems in several sectors, the first being that I have a Motorola Q and a LG Rumor and while I wont get into details, I do like the rumor very much.

The second part is, who has the 400.00 some odd dollars to give sprint so they’ll cancel my contracts, let alone another 400.00 or so for the actual iPhone, plus the ridiculous data plan I know I would want and probably purchase out of value. Right, that’s only 800.00, but I’m including the first few months of service, plus apps, warranty’s, and of course accessories.

So you would think Im in the market for a phone and as I said, I already have a phone. What I need out of the deal is music.

I throw stock overnight 5 times a week, during which time I want to listen to my own tracks, which is mostly streams from nonstopplay.com. I don’t need a fart machine, pocket level, nor do I need to keep track of my friends at 4:00 in the morning. My job is labor intensive, and very dangerous to expensive equipment that would end up in my pocket. I also do not wish to have to pull it out of my pocket each time to change the track, volume or anyting along those lines. Additionally, I don’t want, nor do I need to carry some ungodly amount of songs with me. I’m obviously not going to watch videos or movies while throwing stock, so.. what are my options?

Awesome! Everyone asks me, “why the shuffle?” and I proceed to lecture them with the preceding nonsense. By the end of my tangent they still stand there with a blank look on their face and say “You still should of bought the ipod touch”. Yes let me spend the 200.00 on the ipod touch, only to break the screen, drop it, or smash it somehow in my pocket during work. Eventually when I move to the greater Boston area the ipod touch or maybe even the iPhone will become something of use to me, but as for now the ipod shuffle is doing a fantastic job.

I picked up the ipod shuffle, the last one on the shelf at radio shack actually. This was after stopping at several locations only to find that “We don’t sell anything but the ipod touch”… What?

The unit worked perfect out of the box, I love the included dock as well as the updated apple headphones. I know this is rather old news however I just bought my toy so this is the first time I am ever using this device. Sure the controls are archaic, FF and RW speeds are slow, and you can lose it in your pocket lint (but that shouldn’t be a reason because it clips on where ever you want) but it plays music, loud and clear and performs its function perfectly for my applications.

I want an iPhone, but there are some things in this world that people want but they really don’t need, in this case I’m going with what I need, and that is everything that the iPod Shuffle is.