One step towards abandoning my iRiver 140

Despite the slowness and clumsiness and all sort of problem associated with my old iRiver 140 player, I continued using it as my primary Podcast player, and use it extensively while I am driving to work.

That changed in these last several days when I realized that using my iPod Touch is so much better a Podcast because of the following reason:

• It integrates well with iTune, which is my source of downloading Podcast
• It remembers where I left off on each individual Podcast, and marked it as completed after I finished the podcast. That information was used when syncing Podcast between my iPod and iTune. Result: I always have Podcast that I haven't finished, and those that I've finished automatically removed after each sync. Also I no longer have to manually create a bookmark when I need to stop the player.
• Unplugging headphone automatically stopped the Podcast.
• One less device to carry.
• I can to listen to Podcast even when I don't have a headphone around.
• Show notes are sometimes available to view on my iPod Touch.

So once I am done with all the Podcasts in iRiver, I will retire that device. Another problem with iRiver 140 is that it has such a slow hard disk, makes it such a bad candidate even as just a removable hard disk. But boy, so many years .... my faithful servant iRiver 140 ...