I have an iPod nano 3rd generation, and in the almost 3 years I've had it, there have been so many problems. I have never had as many problems with any other piece of technology as my iPod. iTunes crashes, cuts off the first half of only some of my songs, messes with the metadata, refuses to go to my iPod settings tab, won't sync videos, pictures, or podcasts, and finally stopped working completely, simply bringing up an error message with a random code, and of course I know what it means. My iPod itself stopped being able to display .txt notes and made it so my Klondike game settings are reset and my stats are lost every time I exit the game or turn off the iPod.
I tried reinstalling iTunes, Quicktime, trying to find an iTunes replacement for Windows that would sync to my iPod, and everything else in the world.
Then I went through the interwebz trying to find a new mp3 player that would be drag-and-drop compatible, have good audio playback, have 8 or 16 GB, support lots of audio file types, support lots of video file types, and I guess by saying that I am also saying I want the ability to play videos. I found the Sony ones, which met my criteria. I found some Archos ones, which more than met my criteria, but I still wasn't satisfied.
See, I had found the Archos 3 vision. It's unbelievably cheap ($90 for a 3" touch-screen media player). And when I went to look at reviews, they were ok, but it seemed as if the OS it runs is not so great. Now, what if they had very similar hardware, a 3" touch-screen media player, essentially an iPod touch-type thing, but running a very, very, very good OS that is (I think) now the #1 smartphone OS?
What if there was one of these touch-screen media players that ran Android? I'll tell you what if. If there was one, I would save up and buy it, given it was under $200. I'm sure torrential amounts of other people would, too. Really, I want an iPod touch that runs Android, with access to the Android app store, media playback capabilities, hopefully Android 2.2 with flash, and wifi connectivity to browse the web (because I would love having a ultra-portable wifi-enabled device that I could take anywhere).
Why don't you just get an iPod touch, you may ask? Well, because that forces me to deal with iTunes again, and because I don't like the OS very much. And why don't you just get an Android phone, you also may ask? Because the service costs way too much and there's no reason NOT to have a touch-screen media player running Android.
