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Jens Of Sweden MP3 Player With OLED, Ogg

Posted by timothy on from the hand-candy dept.

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."

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  1. Looks like... by ejdmoo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It looks like a rebranded iRiver to me...

  2. USB 1.1? by jonman_d · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They're still making devices with USB 1.1? Especially for something like an MP3 player, where you're moving large amounts of data, USB 2 is a must. For low-end devices with only 512M of storage, you're going to be doing a lot of adding/removing of files, which makes having to constantly wait during every session a hastle; for the larger devices, it's insane to have to wait forever for your collection to transfer over the outdated 1.1 spec.

    In a world where modern machines come with USB 2, and it's also backwards compatible with USB 1, there's no excuse to make an mp3 player that only supports USB 1.1.

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  3. nice unit by bwy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Personally, this form factor (similar to Creative Labs) has some appeal to me. I know everyone says that the HD's in iPods are shock proof and this and that, but for using at the gym or while running, you can't beat this super-mini form factor and solid state construction. Great to see they're offering some value-adds such as ogg support.

  4. Re:I would like FLAC or Module support. by croddy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    and with 512mb you could store ... 2 albums!

  5. 256mb of good looks by amichalo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Okay, that's just cool looking and I give them huge props on the look and feel. Even the USB-port-slide-out-feature is very cool. Not as certain about the "joystick" feature.

    But what is with the 256MB capacity? I am not trying to be an Apple zelot here, but with the iPod Mini, hasn't Apple really drawn a line in the sand where Style and 4GB capacity intersect at a sub $250 price point?

    The way I see it, no one who ever uses a high capacity digital music player (remember back when we called them MP3 players?) will ever go BACK to a low capacity sub 100 song player. Just won't happen. You get hooked on the ability BROWSE.

    But anyway, nice looking toy

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    1. Re:256mb of good looks by 1lus10n · · Score: 3, Insightful

      actually there is a reason to use one of these: no moving parts.

      Most of the sub 2G mp3 players availible are solid state flash storage, where the ipods are actual hard drives.

      Hard drives (dont give a damn about how they are mounted) fail when exposed to vibration, such as running or even riding a subway.

      Of course this being slashdot i dont expect many people to be runners ...

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    2. Re:256mb of good looks by aussersterne · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I take the subway all the time with my 4GB microdrive-based player (Creative Muvo) and I keep it in my front trousers pocket as I walk about the city. The damn thing has been dropped a few times (because it's so light and small it's easy to lose track of it physically). I've had no trouble, the filesystem is intact, there's no trace of unwanted head noise (i.e. click-clickety-click) or worn bearings whine. At some point I wonder if the platters and heads are so tiny and light that the physics are more forgiving to motion of all but the most extreme kinds... of course the hard drives in the iPod and iPod mini are of different sizes, so I'd expect the full-size iPods to suffer more stress.

      There was a smattering of trouble with earlier CF microdrives, but considering the fact that most of the 1GB microdrives were used by pro digital photographers in intense environments (warzones, sports venues, etc.) and are still in use today, I'd say that microdrives aren't nearly as susceptible to trouble as some would think.

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  6. Two Left Hands by Goldenhawk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    >Isn't that a man's hand holding the mirror to allow
    >lipstick to be applied to a woman's face??

    It had BETTER be a different person, or they have two left hands...

    *grin*

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  7. iPods can double as mirrors as well by gotr00t · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Though they don't use OLED technology, the Apple iPod can also double as a "mirror." Its chorme caseback is reflective, with only minimal distortion.

    That is, if you can keep it clean and free of scratches. I know some people who have their caseback so badly scratched up that its pretty much lost its reflective properties.

  8. anti-iPod bashing = bad by amichalo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I agree that bashing a product or post the lifts up a product, simply because it is not made by Apple is bad. However, i would not go as far as to say we shouldn't be allowed to automatically hold the product to the standard Apple has set.

    After all, Apple has created a 'reference standard' for the digital media player industry by which all other digital media players are, in my opinion, rightly judged. The same holds true for Windows. Apple Linux and before it Unix were and remain compared to Windows, the reference standard for desktop OS.

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  9. Re:That is one of the sweetest things I've ever se by inflex · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Is it just me - or does it look like this woman has two left arms? If I'm right, her thumb in the reflection should be on the /other/ side.