I bought a second a week after buying the first. The sound was better than my friends iPod and on par with his Shuffle. The New Guys tutorial over at tapland.com showed me how to get better than PSP quality movie playback from my DVDs. My Zodiac uses two 1gig SD cards, though you can use 2gig ones. The Zodiac turns heads with its looks, it feels great in your hand when you reach into your jacket pocket, smooth as a pebble. I use it as a PDA with a Think Outside infra red keyboard, as a laptop replacement. I download all the latest news and stories using Avantgo, ebooks. I play games with it using emulators and with the games made for it. It should have been marketed as a quality PDA and multimedia marvel, but there were too many kids on those already crowded streets, I guess. Had it had a dictation facility, a camera and a built in phone... and maybe a tv tuner and, yes, Linux, it would have been perfect. As it is, it's close enough to for this user. Look for a reliable seller on ebay. It's a design classic.
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I bought a second a week after buying the first. The sound was better than my friends iPod and on par with his Shuffle. The New Guys tutorial over at tapland.com showed me how to get better than PSP quality movie playback from my DVDs. My Zodiac uses two 1gig SD cards, though you can use 2gig ones. The Zodiac turns heads with its looks, it feels great in your hand when you reach into your jacket pocket, smooth as a pebble. I use it as a PDA with a Think Outside infra red keyboard, as a laptop replacement. I download all the latest news and stories using Avantgo, ebooks. I play games with it using emulators and with the games made for it. It should have been marketed as a quality PDA and multimedia marvel, but there were too many kids on those already crowded streets, I guess. Had it had a dictation facility, a camera and a built in phone... and maybe a tv tuner and, yes, Linux, it would have been perfect. As it is, it's close enough to for this user. Look for a reliable seller on ebay. It's a design classic.