Archives for April, 2008
These are the top flash-based MP3 players today, but ratings and rankings can change quickly due to pricing and technology changes.
1. Creative ZEN
Built-in Capacity: 32GB
Screen Size (inches): 2.5
Voice Recording: Yes
FM tuner: Yes
Video Support: Yes
Photo Support: Yes
Price: $300
Last year in Orlando, Samsung’s UpStage was one of the biggest announcements of the CTIA show. And this year in Las Vegas, Samsung may have done it again. Today the company announced the Samsung Instinct SPH-M800, which will land at Sprint this summer. The Instinct looks a lot like a certain cell phone from Apple, but Sprint (thankfully) isn’t positioning it as an iPhone killer. Rather, a Sprint spokeswoman called it just an iPhone competitor. We’re not quite sure what to make of that, either.
Following in the steps of the much-hyped (and deservedly so) 20GB H320, the 5GB H10 is the first microdrive player from iRiver to be widely available. Joining the microdrive mania later in the game, the iRiver H10 truly outclasses the competition in the features department, with a built-in FM tuner, a voice recorder, a photo-friendly color screen, and a removable battery. Plus, it’s Janus compatible out of the box. However, its controls aren’t as intuitive as they look, and battery life was disappointing.
There was a gap that needed to be filled in the Sansa product line in between the Clip and the View. This gap was filled by the Fuze with a bigger screen, more capacity, and a memory slot compared to the Clip; but it wasn’t quite the flagship as the View with a lower resolution screen, smaller size, smaller capacities, and weaker video playback abilities.
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