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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.
Interesting. Did you happen to make your post on a computer? Any piece of electronics? Where do you think that was built? Take of your watch, don't drive your car, the commies could have sabatoged those too. The cold war is over Tex.
Sorry kid, we passed that stop almost 4 years ago with the RIO players (except that OGG part.. but if you're seriously using OGG, well, I'm sorry. It might offer superior compression, I dunno, but nothing supports it and nothing ever will. MP3 (and too soon, MP4) is too ubiquitous to ever seriously be challenged).
The fact is, rechargeable batteries are better all around. Better for the environment, better for battery life, even though it might be more inconvienent to recharge. And if that's your problem there are plenty of add-on devices that supply external power to portable media players, cell phones, laptops, etc, while being extremely portable themselves.
As for flash cards, I'd love that too, but it just seems inpractical to carry around all of those flash cards when your player has an integrated thumbnail harddrive, and you've got a cable to attach it to your digital (video) camera. Even higher end digital cameras are starting to move towards including harddrives simply because the storage density is hard to beat.
Lastly, a request of my own (other than for people to stop trolling about Ogg, the superior format that failed just like Betamax): a waterproof player. I've found a few water-tight cases for my iPod, but they all make it feel more clunky than it should be. I'd love to hack my iPod and seal it up for water-tight uses, but it's still under warranty and will be for a long, long time, so I'm stuck with my shitty iCondom.
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I'd prefer a 12cm x 12cm x 1cm device (with 5% more volume). I'd really prefer if this OLED/Flash device were flexible, so I could roll it up into a stylus for my smartphone, and unroll it for a QVGA display.
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