24 hours of battery life. My friend has one and it sounds great!
Warning: Any player with a hard drive must be treated with care no matter how shockproof it seems. If you really lead an active lifestyle, you should get a flash-based player, CD player with MP3 playback, or a Minidisc player.
Aside from that, the Touch is good.
I bought a iRiver H-120 but after 3 months it has crashed and i am to get a full refund. As such,i am looking for a new player with the refund money. I am currently living in Chile and often leave civilization for 3 days at a time with my work. Therefore my requirements are a player that :
-Has 20 Gb storage
-Has decent battery life
-Is reliable (i dont fancy going through this again)
-Is fairly robust as it will spend a lot of time in
a rucksack
-Is relatively simple to load, as my girlfriend back
in the UK will be doing that for me
-I dont think i could afford a iPod with the refund
monies
Is there anything that meets those requirements?
Steve

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