2006-10-30 05:05:56 · 6 answers · asked by momma6 1 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Music & Music Players
First of all ipod would be your best choice
There are the most options and the easiest to use
an mp3 player is a thing that plays music. The least expensive ipod is the ipod shuffle which is around 99$. I suggest you get your child the ipod nano which now comes in multiple colors and has a screen for your child to view the songs it has on it. This ipod can also view pictures. There is also the ipod video which obviously can play videos which is around $249 and the nano is $149 if you do get your child an mp3 player i suggest you get an ipod
2006-10-30 05:43:41 · answer #1 · answered by Earl Bkins 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they're the viral walkmans of the new millennium..and the ipod is the most expensive overmarketed device you can buy your 11-year old. she will probably drop it and break it in no time...they're built to withstand a LITTLE abuse, but, they're not rock solid.
these little devices have small hard drives in them that you load mp3's on to. mp3's if you don't know are digital music files with sound close enough to CD for deaf teenagers to enjoy. they're rather small compared to the amount of space an audio cd takes up, so, the illegal trading of them has become quite popular.
they are nice, they don't skip like cd players and they hold a LOT of music for a small device..but..the ipod is just a result of overaggresive marketing. it's the "in" thing, which is why most kids want them.
they make other mp3 players on the market that are much cheaper, they might not hold as much music as an ipod...and your 11-year old will be embaressed to carry it in public because it's not an ipod..i just saw my 13 year old cousin throw the same fit because her mp3 player wasn't an ipod...or maybe she doesn't want an actual ipod..she just wants an mp3 player and is interchanging the term ipod for usange in the wrong way.
2006-10-30 13:30:38 · answer #2 · answered by Jay Moore 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An mp3 player is a device that lets you listen to music. Unlike a cdplayer, though, it has no moving parts. They are really portable (small) and very useful to pre-teens and the rest of the world. You can pull all of the songs off of a cd and move them to the mp3 player. You can also move the songs from the mp3 player to cds if you have a computer that has such a capability (most do).
I'm going to go out on a limb here. Get him a NICE iRiver instead. After that, subscribe him or her to yahoo! music to go for an extra $60. You kind of "rent" over a million songs, and each purchase (for moving to a cd) is 79 cents instead of 99 cents. I have both and iRiver and an iPod, and I really don't use my iPod that much anymore.
2006-10-30 13:23:35 · answer #3 · answered by muedprof 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
check out apple.com because you can look at all of the different types of iPods on there. My recommendation for a kid that young would be the iPod nano. It still has a lot of memory, but it isn't one of the SUPER expensive ones. The shuffle is nice but it doesn't have a screen so I would stick with a nano!!! An MP3 player is a object that holds and can play music files. An MP3 is a type of music file.
2006-10-30 13:15:09 · answer #4 · answered by betterlife_travel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Buy him a laptop and tell him it has a i Pod & MP3 in it and ask him to use his head to get it.
2006-10-30 13:09:58 · answer #5 · answered by SKG R 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ask your 11 year old they will know everything about them. Trust me on that one.
2006-10-30 13:08:41 · answer #6 · answered by Fabio 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋