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Jens Of Sweden MP3 Player With OLED, Ogg
rune-bare-rune writes "Gadget manufacturer Jens of Sweden launches a nice-looking MP3 player with an unusual OLED display that doubles as a mirror. Supports MP3, WMA and OGG Vorbis. And as a few other really small players it handles the USB connection nicely."
Surely most people will want to see pictures of the product, not some silly Flash animation
I hate waiting for flash animations to load, but in this case, the flash animations *are* the pictures you're looking for.
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Hammacher Schlemmer, the listed reseller of Jens of Sweden's product in the US, has one of the older models - the MP110 - for $249.95 with 256MB of storage.
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http://www.hammacher.com/publish/70549.asp?prom
I would think this model, the MP130, would be at least as expensive, but likely more.
-B
No, they could have called it USB 2.0 FULL SPEED. Not high speed. High speed IS 480mbps, full speed is 12mbps or something
Only if the person was actually lookin' at theyself in the mirror. If the person looking into the mirror is seeing a reflection of the camera, it'd look like the picture. They do it in movies all the time.
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There's hardly any reason for them to use USB 2.0 because most compact flash cards can't transfer above USB 1.1 speeds. A 12x compact flash card transfers at 14.4 mbps which is just barely over USB 1.1's limit.
Would be good if the player is actually made and designed in Sweden. Too bad it's not. Fact is, the flash-based MP3 player market is largely dominated by the koreans.
It probably DOES work, but you need to tell linux that a 'vendor 1234, device 2345' (or whatever it is) needs to be activated with the usb-flash driver.
Dinking around with the ID/Driver database generally solves my 'compatibilty' problems. Even with modern kernels, unless the company, or a fan of the device, decides to submit the mapping to the linux project, it'll remain 'apparently' incompatible.
IOPS players have been on sale in Korea for some time now.
Tell me what you see here: IOPS
It will work with Linux 2.4+, according to the manufacturer.
You are way out of date. I use a Transcend 256MB 30x CF card with my camera and it transfers several times quicker over a USB2 connection than a USB1 connection. I bought it 9 months ago, today Transcend's cards are 45x. Kingston's Elite Pro range transfer at 5.2MB per second, well over 3 times USB1.1's 12Mbps. SanDisk's Ultra II CF cards claim a minimum sustained write speed of 9MBps. That's megabytes not megabits.
OLED implies a thin-film organic LED. If it's an LED, I expect a device that behaves like a P-N junction and operates at low voltages like a standard silicon or other inorganic LED. Organic Electroluminescent is totally different. OEL is a monolithic material that fluoresces under high voltages and low currents. OEL is what is used for backlights for many portable devices and is ultimately not as efficient as OLED (because of the HV stepup) and does not have as easily a tunable color range as OLED.
So who told you that they were the same thing, huh?
If you were actually using a PCMCIA 16 bit adaptor then it's likely that you couldn't reach near 9MB/s anyway. PIO 16 bit with no buffering (there probably isn't any in your CF PCMCIA adaptor) is going to be slow as heck. The connection you get is akin to pre-UDMA hard drives. The maximum theoretical speed on 16 bit PCMCIA is 33MB/s (the same as ISA) and using PIO (since you don't get DMA using this for IDE) there is only going to be half of that (16.5MB/s) available to transfer data. Without any ram to buffer the IO you are likely going to drop your performance below what the card is even capable of.
Try your benchmark again with an IDECF adaptor plugged directly into a drive controller (or IDE/Firewire bridge if you are limited to the laptop) and see if it makes a difference. It ought to!
The IEC TC 110 WG/4 recently agreed in April 2004 to call them all OLED now. Here's a news report, in Korean. I can't find any links in English though.
The capacity difference between the two cells is not
.53Ah = 6.7kJ for the Li-Ion cell.
as large as the Amp-hour rating would seem to indicate.
Li-ion cells operate at about 3.6 volts, while NiMH cells
operate at about 1.2. Thus, assuming constant voltage
during discharge and zero internal resistance (incorrect,
but it makes this easier), you can calculate capacities of:
1.2V * 2.2Ah = 9.5kJ for the AA cell and
3.6V *
Given the higher energy density per mass of Li-Ion
cells and the form factor flexibility ditching the
AA provides, this seems like a good tradeoff.
note that jenz of sweden does not create any mp3players at all: they just buy mp3players from asia and put the "jenz of sweden" logo on it.
Sorry but the JoS MP-130 is actually a rebranded IOPS MPF-350 (from the MPF-300 series)
Jens of Sweden has never developed any technology of it's own. Their game is to rebrand other manufacturers mp3-players and make the exterior look somewhat better. I don't have the energy to find a link, but this is common knowledge.
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Why is it that the "design labels" of our days have the need for rebranding of far eastern goods? As someone already pointed out in this tread, this is a rebranded Iops player.
I remember Bang & Olufsen when they launched their failed cellphone series. It was just a rebranded Ericsson phone, in three more colors at twice the price. My guess is that todays consumers are too vary of these things and JoS will fail unless they cooperate and innovate like certain other companies.
The absolutely worst case of rebranding ever was the North Korean government: They bought / stole severeal Huyndai cars and rebranded them (illegaly) as their own brand. Everybody outside NK understood what was going on, but this was a publicity stunt for their own people to convince them that NK had an up to date booming car industry.
Yes, I have a JOS, MP100. It just comes up as an USB hard drive, so it is a no brainer to get it to work on Linux. The bad part is that firware upgrade can only be done from MS Windows, not even Mac.
This player is extremley similar to my Muzio (www.muzio.co.kr) player, which also has an OLED display (in fact, Jens one looks like the same one running on slightly updated software). Same button combination too. The Muzio is great - 512MB memory, line-in, direct MP3 encoding, FM radio, voice recording. BUT big drawback - the OLED display is shockingly bad. You can hardly see it at all, when at full brightness, in bright sunlight. Very annoying. Apart from this, I'd recommend the Muzio, but the Jen looks more stylish... and you get a free mirror!!!
Yeah, but most people don't encode their music to OGG. They download MP3s/WMAs/whatever and put them on their players.
You do understand that transcoding from MP3 to OGG means absolutely shitty quality regardless on what bitrate you use? The result is always worse than what you started with.
Specs from the press release (which is only available in nordic languages it seems):
The recommended prices are SEK 1795/2495/3295, which translates to very roughly $240/$330/$430.
The MPIO FL-100 already havea mirrored surface. You can also but the FL-100 at your favorite retail outlet. No USB port though. But it does have some Linux support
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