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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."

5 of 321 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I personally only care about sub $100 market by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Who gives a frat's fucking ass what you think? Please, exercise some restraint, and don't waste my bandwidth with content-free posts like these.

  2. shut the fuck up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    before i smash your stupid fucking glasses right into your eyes.
    dick.

  3. Re:Ogg Vorbis support? by mosch · · Score: 0, Troll
    Also, ogg vorbis zealots ignore the fact that there's no single-chip ogg decoder chip, that it's floating point intensive, and there's not even a set of specifications for the format.

    Ogg's a joke, and it's not even a good one.

  4. Re:MMC ? No Ogg ? No way! by Raven42rac · · Score: 0, Troll

    the only portable ogg player there is is the sharp zaurus. otherwise it cant be done on non floating-point processors, yet that is. read this article here for the nitty gritty.

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    I hate sigs.
  5. Re:all junk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    screw you, screw you up your stupid ass.


    Also, which is better - and ipod or sex with a mare?