So its official. My iPod is sold. Ebay is now my best friend. My reserve price on the auction was £150 and thats what I got. I sold my iPod, remote control, 2 pairs of Apple earphones and a protective case.

Now once the payment comes through PayPal, I will be purchasing one of these babies. A Creative Zen Micro (black one of course). I bought one for Sarah for Christmas and I love them. Build in FM tuner, microphone, 5 gig of space and a 12 hour battery life, it kicks the iPod into touch. The menu interface is nice and intuitive and the touch sensitive buttons are great and USB2 in the mix.

I will be a bit sad to see the iPod go because it is a beautiful piece of hardware. No mp3 player can beat it for looks but its battery life and the fact that you can only use iTunes to put music on it pull it down completely. The one other extremely annoying glitch is that if your ID3 tags are missing from the music, the iPod doesn’t categorize them, not even under “UNKNOWN” or anything like that.

With hindsight, I should have but the auction on this site when I first submitted as I could have leveraged my huge readership to publicize my iPod and get the bidding up! :P Yeah, right.