My new 80GB iPod Video (Black) arrived yesterday! I had a chance to try it out a little bit. I’m coming from a 60GB iPod Photo thing and the size of this new one just amazes me. It’s like .2 inches thinner than the last one and has a bigger hard drive, a brighter screen and more battery life…I have no idea how they cram that much in such a small space.

I really do like it so far. The screen is awesome and the extra size above that of the iPod Photo makes album art and long song names easier to read. I tried some video on it and it worked pretty well…but I bought it primarily for audio since I’m not a big video guy.

The new search feature works pretty well. It lets you start typing in the name of an album/song/artist and the iPod will find everything that has that phrase in it’s name. I’ve found that after you type in enough to find what you’re looking for, you can hold down the center button for a few seconds and it’ll drop you into the results list.

My only thing (which I should have considered going in) is that the black iPod, while looking extremely cool, picks up fingerprints very visibily. Oh well. I just have to keep whiping it off. No big deal…

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