The New Nomad Jukebox, And Handheld Oggs

Tha_Zanthrax writes: "The best portable MP3-player has become better! The people from Tbreak.com have recieved a Nomad/Creative Jukebox 3. They have yet to write a review but have put up some detailed pics on their messageboard. It's a bit smaller, but the best improvements are the firewire-port and the 2 (!) internal batteries for 22 hours of operation. Too bad I recieved my Creative JB2 last week ..." If you have a hankering to play Ogg Vorbis audio, though, it looks like the first handheld ogg player has finally arrived in the form of a (payware) app for the Sharp Zaurus called tkc Player, available from theKompany. Where's there's one, there will be more. Woo-hoo!

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more details about tckPlayer

[HeUnique]

You can find more details about the tckPlayer here - it can be bought as a single stand alone app or it can be bought in a package of 9 applications for (for Zaurus) for $74.95 (details are here)

Archos is smaller, cheaper, more GB, USB 2.0

[jbridges]

Archos model 500277
Jukebox MP3 Recorder 20 - 20GB HD (USB 2.0)

PriceWatch lists it for $315

Jukebox MP3 Recorders / USB Hard Drives

Can both record and playback MP3s

USB 2.0 is standard on newer PCs

IGN has a preview of the Jukebox3 too...

[psxndc]

http://gear.ign.com/articles/317/317470p1.html. The site listed here was slashdotted so:

• Firewire port
• USB port
• 2 line outs
• head phone out
• Mic/optical input (sorry iPod fans, your baby doesn't have this one. I wish it did, but it don't)
• 20 Gig Drive

And they've shrunk it. It's still bigger than the iPod by a good amount, but it appears to be less-than-CD-player size (see the site)

psxndc