One foot dipped into the iPod pond…

I’m cheep. I winced when I gave daughter Katie a $74 shuffle iPod for her birthday. No way would I buy one for myself, however. (Even assuming the rakkity Family Financial Manager, herself, would allow me to). So on Father’s day, when I saw the Office Depot ad for a $9.99 deal on the TrekStor mp3 player, I remarked on it at the breakfast table, never realizing that my sweet one-and-only, mother-to-my-children, FFM, would sneak out immediately and buy it for me.

Now that I’ve played with the TrekStor, I know that it’s far from being an iPod, and it will certainly not work with iTunes, Nevertheless, I’ve loaded 250 MB of free MP3 music onto it already, and have listened to it’s crystal-clear playing of Bach’s Art of Fugue. (Next, I” add some Beatles music.) I’ll definitely use it when I’m at the gym (on the treadmill, but probably not on the racquetball court) and maybe on miscellaneous bike rides, or solo car rides. It plays music through the FM radio without any attachments– it’s better than the Shuffle in that respect. You can save photos on it, and it records voice. I think there’s even a way to extract tunes from iTunes to it.

Maybe I can even send sound files to the Blog from it. Great fun!

–rakkity