Company Solicits Feedback on Next-Gen Recorder

An anonymous reader writes "According to LinuxDevices.com a multimedia device vendor has asked the open-source community to help define its next product, a Linux-based handheld portable media player/recorder (PMP/R) featuring audiophile-quality sound. The new product is a successor to the popular Neuros 442 PMP/R. Neuros has published the specs for a development board it calls the first prototype, and has asked hackers, open-source software authors, and others to review and weigh in on the design, which is expected to be finalized in the near future."

Comments

Heh

[Bogtha]

...featuring audiophile-quality sound.

You mean it costs five times as much, but sounds exactly the same to everybody who isn't trying to justify their ridiculously expensive hobby? :)

Re:Heh

[jcupitt65]

They should glue some valves to the side, use deep cryogenic treatment on the mains cable for the battery charger, and include an integrated magic chip to automatically fix the CDs you copy on to it.

Re:Heh

[smithmc]

  You mean it costs five times as much, but sounds exactly the same to everybody who isn't trying to justify their ridiculously expensive hobby? :)

You don't actually hear the improvement until you scribble all over the outside of the case in green Magic Marker.

Okay

[iamdrscience]

First of all it needs a nice fin or two on it to make it more aerodynamic, we don't want this thing to be dragging. Second it needs some more LEDs.

It runs on x86

[Anonymous Coward]

You can tell. It's warmer.

Re:audiophile-quality sound

[Anonymous Coward]

Is it just me or two the terms "Audiophile-quality" and "handheld" mutually exclusive?

Although I guess if they can market it with wank words like 'oxygen impregnated battery interconnects to reduce the harmonics of the batteries natural resonance" and then charge $4000 for it, then I guess audiophiles might buy it ;)

But on a serious note, I guess to get close to that sort of sound quality I would expect the latest and greated chip like the new creative xfi chip? I dunno. Audiophile I am not.

Let's see...

[No Salvation]

I would like it to have a 6.8GHz processor with 1TB non-volatile Quantum-Optical RAM and a 2TB solid state AtomChip® optoelectronics drive. Oh and it should cost less than $149.99 and include a cool leather case.

Re:Let's see...

[maxwell demon]

You forgot the free audio codec which can compress 1 hour of music to 16 bytes while maintaining a sound quality which is indistinguishable from the original. Ah, and please add a Star Trek quality universal translator!

Please oh please oh please!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Put a volume knob that goes all the way to 11...!

Essential

[Frantactical Fruke]

Must run on an ethanol converter cell - so I can drink the battery when things get desperate. A side pocket for a lemon slice and an olive would be good, too.

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[1nhuman]

"Neuros has published the specs for a development board it calls the first prototype, and has asked hackers, open-source software authors, and others to review and weigh in on the design, which is expected to be finalized in the near future."

This is the brilliant design philopshy that will make it a wannahave for every trend consious teenager or non-geek!

Jobs, eat yer hart out!