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Microsoft's Tips for Buying an MP3 Player
An Anonymous Reader writes "In another extension of Microsoft's 'Plays for Sure' campaign, the company has launched a web page with six tips to help consumers purchase the 'correct' MP3 Player for them. Among the insights of the article hard drive-based players suck and a stopwatch is a useful feature to have on your player. Unsurprisingly, the iPod meets none of Microsoft's criteria. A humorous commentary is available, of course." From the article: "6. Don't get locked into one online store. Have you ever been on the hunt for a particular song? Some obscure indie rock tune or rare jazz performance you heard on the radio? You might have to shop at more than one store before you find the song you're looking for."
Why do people think this is directly targetting the ipod?
Hard-disk based player != ipod
And do MS really believe WMA is CD quality at 64kbps?
According to that page:
* Approximate figures based on CD-quality WMA (64 Kbps)
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
Try the Samsung YP-MT6. It's the pimp. I've had mine for 2 weeks, and still haven't killed the original battery.. I think the 42 hour battery life (claimed) is highly conservative, unless you listen to high bitrate Ogg all the time.
Plus you can record the radio, voice, whatever.. Plus it plays Ogg from Q0 to Q10, which is something that the iRivers (flash-based, iFP-series) can't do yet.