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Apple iPod Armband for shuffle 1st Generation (Gray) Reviews

Customer Rating:
Summary: Style Over Function?
Comment: I only used my Shuffle at the gym, so naturally I also got an armband and used it all the time. It turns out that the piece that connects the Shuffle to the armband is merely glued on to the rest of the armband! Within a week of owning it my headphone cord got caught in something and yanked out that piece with my Shuffle. So I super glued it back and things were well.

I must admit, it worked just fine for the rest of that year. However, one fine day, what I feared would happen happened: it yanked the USB piece out of my Shuffle. I set down a 15 lb weight on the ground and a part of it rested on my headphone cable so that when I stood up it yanked my Shuffle out through the front and so the USB part came out and I could see inside my Shuffle.

Ok, so I guess it was my fault technically, but what's the point of an armband if you can't use it at the gym without being afraid of breaking your mp3 player?! That should be the last thing on my mind! To its credit, my Shuffle kept working, and I ended up using lots of glue to put it back together. I don't see it lasting much longer though. A better design would've been for it to have been sturdier, or for the Shuffle to easily come out with pressure (like the MagSafe power cord) or something of that nature. This is a device that should be built for active sport situations.

Oh, and it gets dirty really easily.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: White? For something I'm gonna sweat on?
Comment: I bought one of these w/ my Shuffle when they first came out. I could not find an alternate style at that time. I run marathons and lift weights, and let me tell you, the formerly white armband is white no longer. The material is not stretchy enough for weight-lifting either. I have to adjust it a couple of times during weight workouts as my muscles get swollen w/ excess blood flow as I lift. When I wear the armband with the device while running, I have noticed that sweat pools in the little USB receptacle. My Shuffle (w/ which I am also disappointed) became rusty at the USB portion and has had to be replaced twice since March 2005. I tried to get my money back the second time, but to no avail. Bottom line: Apple stuff looks cool, but that's about it. I'd prefer something ugly and functional instead.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: A Terrible Product
Comment: The method used to secure the Ipod to the band is horrible. After 20 minutes of activity (jogging), the piece that accepts the usb end came loose, sending my ipod to the ground. A terrible product. Apple is only concerned with "artistic" styling at the expense of actual function.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: If they tried, they could not have made it worse!
Comment: How could Apple design such a perfect portable music player and then put their name on this crap??? Way too small, terrible velcro dots that rarely match up, and made of material that MIGHT last a week before it breaks. And the price? Are you kidding me? I returned this and got the Speck armband - much better!!!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Awful
Comment: This is very disappointing. It's huge, cumbersome, and uncomfortable. The worst part is that it's not elastic at all - just a hard rubberized canvas strap - so if you actually put it around your arm, it's alternately too loose and too tight as your arm muscle flexes just during a normal range of motion.

Plus, locating your Shuffle on your arm for jogging or running is just a bad idea. The cord ends up dangling and flapping around too much, getting in the way.

I bought this for running after getting new running shorts that didn't have pockets. I ended up switching to a belt clip to hold it to my waistband. Much, much better!

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