My Click Wheel 60GB iPod is starting to die. I bought this iPod around September 2005, I know this thanks to this post, I knew I had this blog for a reason. So I’ve had it for under 3 years, which is a little disappointing. Although I have thrown the thing around sigificantly. It’s scratched up, I’ve dropped it quite a few times. The more notable drops was once at the gym while running on a treadmill, it dropped out of my pocket, landed on the treadmill and shot back along the wood floor before slamming into the wall, and it didn’t blink an eyelid, still worked fine. Another time I dropped it I was a drunken mess getting out of a taxi, I did the old drop, fumble, inadvertently launched it another metre or so in the air, only to have it land on a very hard bluestone gutter, I woke up in the morning to find the white plastic and all of the insides had popped away from the metal casing, and I had to pop it back into place, again, it didn’t bat an eyelid.

But now it’s starting to cough and splutter, it boots up to the dreaded sad iPod picture with the apple support URL, I put my ear to the iPod and I can here that familiar click n spin sound that faulty hard drives like to do. I don’t quite know how I first found this out but if I give the thing a good whack, it actually works again, sometimes for a good month or so. It goes completely against anything you’re supposed to do with a faulty hard drive but I assure you it works. But I do find myself doing it more and more these days. So if you do have your iPod constantly going to the sad pod, and you have nothing to lose, give it a solid whack on it’s back with the base of your palm and see if it works. Definitely works for me.

So now the question is, what do I upgrade to. The obvious answer is a 80 or 160gb iPod classic. But the iPod touch is mildly enticing, but with only a max of 32gb it’s not quite as practical for me. The other thing I could dois wait for the iPhone to hit Australia, which I’m sincerely hoping is this year sometime, but there is yet to be any announcements about it. I’ll be scratching my chin about it for quite a while I think.