rcosby

My 13 year old loves her ipod nano. We have had no problems with the screen. There have been some problems but they appear to be a fairly small percentage. There is definantly a name thing here. You can buy a cheaper mp3 player, but you tend to get what you pay for. A Lexus costs more that a comparable Kia but people who want a Lexus don't care. For kids the ipod name is like any other name brand. Like wearing Wal-Mart jeans to school when the other kids are wearing #####.

Speed varies depending on your connection, and of course song length varies as well. In addition, songs are encoded into mp3s. The higher the compression used the smaller the file size. However, the smaller file sizes sound worse than the larger files. Generally speaking an average song encoded at 128K would be around 3-4 Megs. You can expect to download at the rate of 5 min per meg. That would mean about 15-20 minutes per song.