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New MP3 Portables

Posted by michael on from the no-ogg-in-sight dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This has been a busy week for the announcement of the latest crop of MP3 portables, probably just the start of many more with the holiday season only a few months away. First Samsung has announced their first jukebox model the Yepp YP-900, a 10GB unit using Toshiba's 1.8-inch drive for storage (same one as in the iPod) and eschewing FireWire (400 mbps) for a USB 2.0 (480 mbps) connection to transfer files. Mambo has also announced a jukebox player called the Digital Media-X PhotoBank Jukebox that is more akin to the Archos Jukebox Multimedia in that it can store and display photo files and possibly video files in the future. The Mambo holds 20GB of memory on a more common 2.5-inch hard drive, making it a heavier unit than the YP-900. Like the Yepp, the Mambo also goes with a USB 2.0 connection, heating up the competition between FireWire in digital music portables. The most interesting feature about the Yepp? It also has a MMC/SD card slot to facilitate trading tunes to and from other digital music players. (Take that SDMI). Finally SonicBlue has started shipping replacements for the Rio 600 and the Nike PSA[play 120 (made by Rio for gym workouts). Both the Rio S30S for the exercise-minded and the Rio S10 come with 64MB of memory and are upgradeable to 192MB through MMC flash cards. The S30S comes with an FM radio, while the base-optioned S10 is claiming 35 hours of running time on a single AA battery. Both players transfer files via USB 1.1's 12mbps port."

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  1. If it played OGG by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    then it wouldn't be an "mp3" portable. So don't ask.

  2. Re:Ogg Vorbis support? by danamania · · Score: 2, Funny

    Imagine a beowulf cluster of .ogg players.

    a grrl & her server

  3. Listen buddy-- by gvonk · · Score: 4, Funny


    I dunno about you, but I will find the player I want independent of bus interface and THEN, and only then, will I decide that I am not too cheap for

    AN EIGHTEEN DOLLAR PART!!!


    Sorry 'bout that.

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  4. Re:Water-proof player by jeffehobbs · · Score: 5, Funny


    But Aquaman, you cannot marry a woman without gills, you're from two different worlds!

    ~jeff

  5. Re:Water-proof player by MaxVlast · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow. Good God, man. I never thought of the idea. Good lord, if I could have my MP3s while I was swimming, I'd swim for hours each day and would be in the shape that I've always wanted. Wow.

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