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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."
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
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You are way out of date.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.
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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