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Mix Wi-Fi and Portable Digital Audio, Get Aireo
Midwestern gadget freak writes "What do you get when you mix Wi-Fi and digital tunes? The Aireo, which syncs with a PC over a high-speed wireless link instead of a cable or dock. It packs in other features not found in an iPod, but has a measly 1.5 gigabyte drive and won't work with any of the top music-download services. Its maker isn't a household name, but Best Buy will sell the things in a few weeks."
Let's give a warm welcome to the iPod killer, Slashdotters. SoniqCast was just selected as a finalist in the TechTV "Best of CES" award. This thing is cool as shit -- it's the world's first-ever portable wireless WiFi MP3 player. It won the "Best of CES Portable Audio" award at the 2004 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.
I got to play with one of these, and I can assure you that this thing is totally badass. It automatically and wirelessly moves music from your PC to the player. With iPods, which some feel are overpriced and suffer from poor battery quality, getting music onto your MP3 player involves the following steps:
Get iPod from the car or wherever it's at
Start up iTunes software
Pick your playlists
Dock the iPod
Stand around by your PC for a while
Undock the iPod
Put the iPod back in the car or wherever you want it
With this Aireo gadget, you don't have to do any long process like that. It automatically does content refreshes via wireless. You don't need wires, you can use the built-in FM transmitter in your car to listen to music on your car stereo, and it's all at a very reasonable price for such a cutting-edge piece of technology. My friends at Best Buy say that it will retail for $299.99 and include some great discounts inside the package (free iTunes/Napster downloads, perhaps).
You Linux hackers will be happy, too. Aireo includes an internal hard disk drive. I'm sure it'll only be a couple months before this thing's completely hacked and works flawlessly with Linux, BSD, OS X, and perhaps even Solaris machines.
The model I tried out came with a carrying case, headphones, an AC power cord/charger, USB cable, installation guide, SoniqSync personal preferences play list manager, and owners manual.
I don't work for this company or Best Buy, but I love music and computers, and as such I think this thing is really neat. Imagine the sexual possibilities of playing some Marvin Gaye off my Aireo on my car stereo while I tongue down some chic in the backseat!
Background: 28/M/Bi-Sexual; Owner of a Linux company; MBA Harvard 2003; B.S. Comp Sci MIT 2000
Or do I have to press alt+print-screen+b and choose Windoze XP?
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tell that to the BBC who streams in ogg, or quite a few of the large conglomerates of indy bands who release music in ogg
GROSS!
Perhaps you are a fag.
what did you expect?