Just saw the new iPod 5G which looks great and the size seems pretty good too. Good to see that apple are doing black again, many companies have started doing stuff in black so I guess I’m fashionable again! (Hopefully the nasty cheap silver and fake wooden floors syndrome that people have is over?!) Glad to see that the battery life is getting there at 20-Hours. Now for my complaints:

1. No remote! so that means that all the nasty people can have a butchers at your nice new iPod before stealing it off you. 2. Still got the nasty white earphones (even with the black version), the ear phones aren’t that bad for freebies that come with products but come on if you can afford the £219 then you can afford some good earphones like the Sennheiser MX-500′s. The problem is that like the iPods ear phones the Sennheisers are white and are also nasty bastard attractors! But all you silly fuckers that wear the white ear phones as a fashion thing you deserve to get the shit kicked out of you and your stuff stolen. (Sennheiser still do the black/metalic blue ones.)

The main reason I tell people to get new earphones is mainly because the iPod really is a good sounding piece of kit, it has a huge base of people that buy it for fashion and not sound quality this really isn’t a bad thing as it allows these dickheads to hear something that sounds good and introduces them to the fact that great sound helps you to enjoy music more and will also allow them to listen to new things.

Ok on with the 5G, the 5G can playback video which isn’t really that interesting and I have already heard people moaning on the net about the fact that it will only playback certain formats etc.. the most interesting and good things in 5G are the bigger HD and the improved battery life, oh and the fact it comes in black! Ok some simple advice if you own a 4G/iPod photo with black and white display or the colour version (photo and later 4G’s) I personally wouldn’t upgrade unless you really need that extra bit of battery life. For owners of the 3G which are bored and have too much cash to spend or the battery is on it’s way out you have two choices. 1. Buy a new battery which has increased cappacity for 30 notes. 2. Buy the 5G and have the new looks, have the extra 12-Hours battery life over the 3G and have all the bits of the iPod photo all together for 219 notes for the 30-gig. Now for my plea, please someone out there be it Apple or third party please make a remote for this thing.

(Ira if your reading this stop making excuses and finally go out and buy one, it’s good value really and you will like it!)