Author's product rating: 
| Advantages: |
Easy to use, decent speed |
| Disadvantages: |
Not particularly reliable |
| Recommend to potential buyers: |
no |
This cable comes with your iPod. It's the only way provided free with the iPod for you to recharge it. You plug it into a desktop or laptop computer and your iPod will charge via the power provided to the computer.
It seemed adequate enough when I was first using it, as long as the cable works and it's not too slow there aren't many complaints you can have unless it breaks. Clearly my luck isn't too good. The cable broke after 2-3yrs, it didn't snap so initially I wasn't sure why my iPod wouldn't recharge but which is cheaper, replacing the iPod battery or buying a new cable?
I wasn't too pleased to find out the price of a new cable so I decided to go with a cheap import from Hong Kong (not an iPod brand cable) which cost me only £2-3 and I've had no problems with it as of yet. I certainly wouldn't pay the £13-16 the iPod cable costs.
Overall I'd say the cable is easy to use, fairly speedy but not reliable. I'd have many different types of cables over the years and this is the first one I've had to replace due to some kind of internal fault. I'll give it a 3/5 because you get one free.
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