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World's Smallest MP3 Player
Chris_Yates writes "mobiBlu is claiming to produce the world's smallest mp3 player, the DAH-1500 cube. The player is 24x24x24 millimeters (about the size of the tip of your finger or various small items), weighs 18 grams, uses OLED technology, and comes in a variety of colors. The 1GB version is currently selling for $130 at Wal-Mart. Buy one today, so you can lose it within a week!" Update: 07/25 22:56 GMT by T : An anonymous reader points out this review of the device.
With a player that small, maybe they could just make one the shape of a hear piece and we could just change the musics with a bluetooth remote.
I think that this may so small as to be impractical... I had a cell phone that was too small in that the buttons were impossible for me to press with my (sausage like) fingers without messing up. I had to get a bigger one.
I don't mind something that is small enough to be hidden by a sock, but not a match book...
It does seem like this could create some interesting possibilities for integrated earphones. Perhaps an ear phone that hooks over your ear>
Anyhow, Like my wife says, anyone who says that size doesn't matter has a small , er, MP3 player
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It is small, but I wouldn't describe as being "fingertip" in size. Sure, it balances on your finger, but I've yet to see a fingertip of those proportions, The Thing's notwithstanding!
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I dont know why you'd want a mp3 player that small, interface would be a bitch compared to the slightly larger say, ipod mini. You are obviously not a grrrl. Glue a chain and post on it and you got a music earring. In fact, I think it was at WalMart that I saw something just like it.
Hmmm... Nice idea. A d20-shaped mp3+ogg (of course!) player with good weight distribution... And preferably wireless headphones... Press a button, then throw - fun way to pick a random song. ;-) Only works for 128MB versions though - larger would store too many songs.
It seems perfectly reasonable to me...The main problem these days is fitting a functionally sized UI onto the smallest possible player, but if you made a UI-less player, built into some headphones, say, with a bluetooth UI hooked into a watch or something, that would kick ass.
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They should fit the whole contraption in a hearing aid size form factor. Then have a wireless control either on a ring or wristwatch form factor.
Highspeed (400+Mbit) or Fullspeed (11Mbit). I gather the last, which is practically completely compatible to USB 1.1 - same slow speed.
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1. Does this play the podcasts? 2. Does it have the internet in it?
Yup, the shuffle is easier to pocket, but a display screen, nested folders, WMA playback and an FM tuner kick in features Apple is to elitist to include.
Oh, I do think it's a nice little unit, though I'd rather have it do MP4 than WMA since WMA is kind of tied in to Windows. The functionality and price are all good, but I'd rather they have made it a less clumsy shape even if it was in a slightly larger box.
Incidentally, the thing that I miss the most about my shuffle is the clock. Since it doesn't have a clock, it can't update the "last play" time in iTunes when it syncs, so my clever set of chained smart playlists for Party Shuffle can't account for and avoid dups for the music that I listen to on my shuffle.
I suppose I could write a script that I could run before and after syncing the shuffle to put the songs whose play counts have changed into a "recent shuffled" playlist, but I think I've already spent way too much time on fine-tuning my iTunes settings.
Funny thing, for those of us working in "secure" facilities where the security idiots^H^H^H^H^H^Hstaff think that USB is the mark of the beast, being able to leave the USB connection at home can be a big advantage.
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Not scripts, just smart folders. Unfortunately I can't just dump the XML because the important stuff is binary gibberish.
Basically, what I did was set up a series of smart folders:
2star - Rating is 2 stars and last played is not in the last 2 months
0star - Rating is 0 stars and last played is not in the last 6 weeks
3star - Rating is 3 stars and last played is not in the last 3 weeks
4star - Rating is 4 stars and last played is not in the last 4 days
5star - rating is 5 stars and last played is not in the last 25 hours
Weighted - playlist is 0star or 2star or 3star or 4star or 5star
Ambient - Genre is not Hip-Hop and playlist is not Unambient and genre is not Opera and playlist is not Flakey and kind does not contain quicktime
This works a lot better than just "play higher rated songs more often", because I know how often "more often" is. And I can tune things around, cut 5star down to 3 days or raise 3 stars up to 1 week when I'm feeling like more variety... that's how I ended up giving 0 star a frequency that's between 2 and 3 stars.
Unambient is just a regular playlist where I put stuff that I don't want to listen to while I'm working. Flakey is another set of chained playlists. I don't play quicktime in ambient because the volume equalizing algorithm iTunes uses doesn't work for quicktime.
"And hey, since Wal-mart is selling this, I think it might just give the iPod a run for its money."
That's modded funny? That's pretty insightful to me. I think if the price comes down a bit, it'll sure give the iPod Shuffle a run for its money. On price, if Walmart wants to be it, it will.
Besides, with a built in FM tuner, even the technologically inept can use it until they figure out what an MP3 is. That's a definate Walmart winner. That feature alone makes is a definate Rio killer. It also has 5 hours more play time than the iPod Shuffle, weighs less than iPS, and actually comes in color (white is so 2004, unless you like being mugged).
The jury is out on iPod killer status, but I have to say one thing. It is pretty sexy, and a definate conversation starter (for geeks at least). If it goes hits $110 or less, I'd probably get it.
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