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Pocket PCs Masquerade as iPods

Posted by pudge on from the i-smell-a-lawsuit dept.

agwadude writes "Wired News has a story about a British software firm called StarBrite that is selling a virtual iPod that runs on Microsoft's PocketPC operating system. It mimics the iPod interface exactly, including the unique scroll wheel. It's a mere $20 but this seems right considering it's only software, and it only supports MP3. MacDailyNews has a shorter story."

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  2. fr1st p0st by Pxtl · · Score: -1, Troll

    Slashdotted already. ANybody know of plans to do this on a Palm? My Clie's got a scrollwheel.

  3. It's off the spoke? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's off the spoke?
    But is it pink?

  4. Help! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I came home from school early today and caught my brother masturbating over Linux! And I don't mean just looking at porn while running Linux, I mean choking the chicken over the freakin' source code! What should I do?!

  5. too true by Transient0 · · Score: -1, Troll

    The iPod is a slick but over-priced piece of hardware. The software minus the hardware is just another mp3 player, of which there are plenty already available for pocket PCs. And free of charge too.

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    1. Re:too true by jkabbe · · Score: 1, Troll

      LOL
      This is a troll right?

      That thing is 3 times the size and almost twice the weight of a 20GB iPod.

      I didn't even mention Quality - just storage/size/weight. Surely you can do better than that?

    2. Re:too true by jkabbe · · Score: 0, Troll

      No. Do Apple zealots always use ad-hominem attacks like that one right off the bat? Pathetic.

      I don't know, but I can tell you what *I* do. When I post a request and someone responds with something that isn't even vaguely in the ballpark I tend to think either
      1) that person's an idiot
      or
      2) that person's trolling for a fight

      Pardon me for picking the wrong one.

  6. iPod battery emulator by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I used this to get my iPaq to emulate an iPod. To complete the overall effect, I threw my iPaq out in the trash when the battery died..... just to have the complete iPod experience.

    1. Re:iPod battery emulator by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      shut up, fucko

  7. FAR BETTER THAN CRAPPLE GARBAGE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Despite Hp's massive Indian outsourcing binge the iPaq is still far superior to the crapple iPOS. For one you can use it for many more things than the iPOS and for another it's way cheaper.

  8. Wait a minute.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why would a heterosexual PocketPC user want to use a faggy effeminate iPod?

  9. Sorry, buy you mispelled 'lost' by djupedal · · Score: -1, Troll

    MS won.

    Re-writing history, again, I see.

    Apple won, and MS paid handsomely - this was when MS put out press releases saying they had 'invested' in Apple, and people like you believed it :)