Monday, July 24, 2006
The sound of silence
Oh boy, am I bamboozled following the lunchtime trip to check MP3 players in my local consumer electronics outlet. There's more choice than I ever imagined, and a surprising number of 256MB MP3 players. Although some of them are tiny, that's still not a lot of storage capacity.
Confirmed my doubts about the iAudio X5 - the joystick is obtrusive, and I couldn't live with that stupid "Color Sound" logo beside the screen.
The 20GB Sony Walkman may be cheap - but it's also plain ugly, and bulkier than an iPod. Now I know why it's heavily discounted. Also it has the most basic of basic functions ... off my list.
The 30GB iPod was looking good ... and its screen was bigger than I realised - videos would almost be watchable. Or would they?? So for under ?300 I could have another style icon, but ...
It was the PDAs that caught my eye. Prices starting at ?200 for a Windows Media system (let's go with the flow here, OK?) and a 4GB SD card now under ?100, it's a serious option.
Evidently, more investigation is required.
Confirmed my doubts about the iAudio X5 - the joystick is obtrusive, and I couldn't live with that stupid "Color Sound" logo beside the screen.
The 20GB Sony Walkman may be cheap - but it's also plain ugly, and bulkier than an iPod. Now I know why it's heavily discounted. Also it has the most basic of basic functions ... off my list.
The 30GB iPod was looking good ... and its screen was bigger than I realised - videos would almost be watchable. Or would they?? So for under ?300 I could have another style icon, but ...
It was the PDAs that caught my eye. Prices starting at ?200 for a Windows Media system (let's go with the flow here, OK?) and a 4GB SD card now under ?100, it's a serious option.
Evidently, more investigation is required.
# posted by Nesjo : 14:38
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