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Cowon introduces 0.85" HDD based "micro" media player
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Wow, sounds nice.. but I wont get excited until I see what sort of input mechanism it incorporates. Size is important, so is capacity. but just as important is how you access your media and with what level of ease.Thats why the iPod took off in my opinion. The control interface was simple, syleish and just made sense. All other mp3/media players at the time were complex and had a lumbering feel to them.
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[b]Originally posted by asphix:[/b][quote]Wow, sounds nice.. but I wont get excited until I see what sort of input mechanism it incorporates. Size is important, so is capacity. but just as important is how you access your media and with what level of ease.Thats why the iPod took off in my opinion. The control interface was simple, syleish and just made sense. All other mp3/media players at the time were complex and had a lumbering feel to them.[/quote]Yes, and that's why the nano didn't. ITs extreamly difficult to access your songs if you have big fingers. (Is the disgner a girl or something?) It SOUNDS nice, but it need to be tested by the consumers to be accepted by me.
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THe breakage and scratching issue won't go away for a while yet. Better investment in terms of plastics are need if the trend is going to take off properly. 20 hours of battery life is definately a winner.
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"[CES South Korea's Cowon this week demo'd at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas what it claims is the world's first micro media player based on a 0.85in hard disk drive.]"Go Korea!!! yeah...ok, mabye that is a little eccentric. But hey,i would buy one...if i had the money, nothing better to spend it on, and needed for gigs of room for my music. But look at it! that is tiny, and it's not Apple! heheh
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nice!
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.85 inch hard drive? Hmm. Might also be a potential for other portable devices like PDAs and tablet PCs. How fast is it?
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Sometimes smaller isn't better. In a race where every company wants the best product in the smallest size, I don't think media players should be in there from the beginning. There is a cutoff point somewhere that the physical design of the media player outweighs the advantages of the size of the media player. If it's too small, like the one the article describes, I believe it limits the type of consumers it will attract. The underlying purpose of making media players smaller is to make it flexible for end-users. It seems kind of ironic to me that all it does is make it inflexible instead.
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I don't like devices that have no heft at all to them. In other words, they feel like a small hollow plastic shell that I could snap in half easily. I don't like small as it pertains to weight, but I don't mind small as it pertains to functionaly size without loosing something else.And hopefully it has funtion to prevent accidental pressing of those little buttons!
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i think this could turn out to be a good thing or a bad thing depending on the cost. if it is cheap everyone will be able to have a mp3 with a good amount of storage for a low amount of money. but if it cost alot say as much as a video ipod nobody would want to buy one cause they could just get the ipod w/ a bigger screen & hard drive.
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I think it's still not small enough. It's still not as small as a flash disk, and with a hard drive in it, it must be pretty heavy. And 4GB is not that big, flash memory based MP3 player is getting bigger and bigger space, I think it's the future of MP3 players, not hard drive based.And consumers will want it to be as small as possible, not only for its practicality and functionality, but also for the brag right.
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I think MP3 players today are small enough. With my luck, I will probably lose anything as small as that micro one in less than a day probably. I mean, maybe other people would like it to be smaller, but if it fits in your pocket then I think the companies should stop there and focus on more important things. You know, things like battery life (although 20 hours is a substantial amount of time), and the capacity. Besides that though, MP3 players seem to be doing pretty well. Almost everyone I know at my school has an one, including me.
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That's an amazing Audio Player. And Cowon are also considered a pretty good Audio Players Manufacturer.Have a look here, I've found a nice preview on this iAudio 6 Player: [url]http://www.dapreview.net/news.php[/url]
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Everything gets smaller and smaller everyday. First there was the iPod, then came the iPod Mini and then the iPod Nano. Next thing you'll see we'll be having pants with smaller pockets in them to hold these things "properly", although I wouldn't mind if it were skirts that got smaller
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[b]Originally posted by fury:[/b][quote].85 inch hard drive? Hmm. Might also be a potential for other portable devices like PDAs and tablet PCs. How fast is it?[/quote]Slower than flash memory, I'm sure.I can't think of any good reason why they're using a hdd instead of flash memory there.
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I fully agree with Mict, with flash memory getting bigger all the time, who wants a gadget with a harddisk, no matter how sturdy?They should concentrate more on bio-chips with micro-organisms, rather than develop forever smaller harddisks with moving parts!
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An addition such as this, is always welcome in my book. It seems like more and more companies are moving toward Micro devices, and are trying to improve them. If you think about it, it is smart for a company to do this, because micro devices in the market, has been long overdue for upgrades. Great job Cowon.
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It'll be cool for computer hard drives to be that small and hold a few hundred gigs. I prefer Discmen over mp3 players because size don't bother me. The only problem I have is cds getting ruined. Anyway, I'd end up losing something that small. I have enough trouble not losing things 500x that size. Discmen are small enough, they tend to fit in my jeans pockets most times os thats good enough for me.
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Imagine all the times that thing will probably turn up in the lint removal compartment in my drying machine.
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