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Latest "iPod Killer" Takes Aim at the Mini

Posted by samzenpus on from the more-stuff-to-buy dept.

blamanj writes "ReignCom, has just released the iRiver H10, a 5GB MP3 player with 1.5" color screen and FM tuner. Currently available in Korea, the company plans a US release in January. The price is higher than Apple's iPod mini, but it does have extra features. iRiver has generally gotten good reviews for quality, as well." Update by J : We typoed that as "5MB" earlier, sorry.

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  1. Quit your bitching! by mr.henry · · Score: 4, Funny

    5 MB ought to be enough for anybody!

    1. Re:Quit your bitching! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      It was an engineering decision. The user interface can be drastically simplified by having only one song.

      There is one button, 'play'. Compare this to the overly complicated ipod

    2. Re:Quit your bitching! by kevingc · · Score: 1, Funny

      This is the iPod killer because it can hold iPod's 20,000 songs in a proprietry format where each song is re-encoded as a single byte! The DRM and compression on this is incredible! If you try to actually listen to the music, it's inaudible until you purchase the iPod and redownload the song onto its hardrive!

  2. 5MB by Uncle+Jimmy · · Score: 5, Funny

    the iRiver H10, a 5MB MP3 player

    Who needs 1000 songs, when you can have one?

    1. Re:5MB by skreuzer · · Score: 5, Funny

      No wireless. (Alot) Less space than an iPod. Lame.

    2. Re:5MB by jamesbuko · · Score: 2, Funny

      idiot...its for MIDI files

    3. Re:5MB by rzebram · · Score: 4, Funny

      That's nothing! Back in my day, there was only 5MB of music in the entire world, and we liked it that way!

  3. 5MB by TruePaige · · Score: 3, Funny

    Back in my day, I walked uphil bothways, with only 5MB of music to listen to!

  4. 5mb, wow by Bin_jammin · · Score: 2, Funny

    I hope that it's slightly smaller than the size of a stack of 4 floppies

  5. Yeah by Anonymous+Crowhead · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hear that sound? That's the iPod laughing itself to death.

  6. 5 megabytes! by nxs212 · · Score: 2, Funny

    wow, with capacity like that, it will definitely give the mini run for its money.
    (i don't expect nerds to have good "grammer" or use there and their appropriately, but come ON! Gigabytes and Megabytes is something this article's poster should be familiar with)

  7. 5 minutes of pure iPod-killing joy by RaySnake · · Score: 2, Funny

    And before you know it old Koreans will be demanding bigger drives on these things. All kidding aside though the little toy sure looks pretty from the pics. I just wonder how good the user interface will be? Guess I'll have to get myself a late Christmas present.

  8. crap! by Skadet · · Score: 1, Funny

    I just got an Archos AV400 for Xmas...

    Holy crap, are you posting from somewhere that's 4 days ahead of us here in ther good old USA? Mars perhaps? Hmm....

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  9. "Latest"? by Trurl's+Machine · · Score: 3, Funny

    Latest "iPod Killer" Takes Aim...

    I wonder if Steve Jobs has a whole collection of these, somewhere in his mansion - labeled "iPod killer #841, iPod killer #842, iPod killer #843...".

  10. Re:timezone by evilviper · · Score: 3, Funny
    I MAYBE get to open ONE present on Xmas eve only ever after 11 PM.

    What are you, 7 years old?
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