DAP Delights for September 23

Today ’s DAP newspaper headline :

Creative comes to terms with itself by sneaking in theZen Sleek Photo — too footling , too late ? Meanwhile , LuxPro has modify its already - updated - before shuffle clones ( the “ EZ Tangent ” & “ Top tangent ” ) and redubbed them“EZ / Top Square ” . Although LuxPro will remain king in shuffle - cloning land , others are assay to jump on the bandwagon as well – RCA and Wolverine include . in person , we like the smell of i - Bead ’s upcoming700 modela sight well because , you know , it ’s square and all . Nice screen on that one too , although not as nice as Archos ’ 4 - inch screen as found on theirAV530 , a portable video recorder that has been put to the test by our Gallic buddies . Finally , Dell realized that their disk jockey Ditty is n’t going to do much equipment casualty unless the ship’s company really startspromoting it . Luckily enough for us , they ’ve decided to do it the insane means .

In a not - so - scandalous turn of effect , Creative is planning on sneaking in theZen Sleek Photo . That ’s right – a Zen Sleek that come with an OLED - character color screen . Not a bad move , given the rather thickset sizing and decent look of the original Zen Sleek … but is n’t this a bit latterly by now ? We ’ve watch the Sleek Photo being offered ( on a pre - order base ) at some 330 Euro here and there , which is n’t exactly cheap for a 20 GB DAP . Apple already had colour silver screen iPods available for purchase months and months ago , only to baffle the audience by coming up with the flash - based nano . Creative will release the Micro Photo ( 8 GB , color covert translation of the veritable Zen Micro ) within reasonable time as well . Question being , will the cosmopolitan customer prefer “ splendid screen caliber ” over Apple ’s design - technical accomplishment ?

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Speaking of Apple ’s design skills – LuxPro never made it a closed book that they “ liked ” the iPod shamble . Some facts : LuxPro ( base in Taiwan ) introduce the so - called “ Super shuffle ” during this year ’s European CeBIT ( Hannover , March 2005 ) . They change the name to “ Super Tangent ” briefly after that , while also redesigning the navigation wheel . Somehow , a few Super Tangents made it to the outside earth before the ware evaporate from LuxPro ’s web site … only to make way for the “ EZ ” and “ Top ” Tangents . These were basically iPod shuffles with OLED screen climb up inside their several casings – said players also got to see the light of day , albeit not for too long . It looks like Apple ’s lawsuits still were n’t satisfied with the whole situation , and so LuxPro went to work and redesigned both tangent * again * . They ’re now equiped with a “ seafaring square toes ” , rather than the said “ iPod wheel ” . And so , theLuxPro “ Ez Quare ” and “ Top Square”were born , with niggling to nothing having vary in terms of specifications . Both thespian offer extra like an FM receiving set and voice recording but a suggest battery life of 8 time of day per charge is far from impressive . The condition “ unimpressive ” would characterise the company ’s “ truly new ” DAP , the Square Mini ( what ’s in a name ) , as well .

Some will direct , and others will follow . Whereas LuxPro used the Apple iPod shambling as its main source of inspiration , it seems as if other manufacturers have take LuxPro to be their own personal stimulator . Take theWolverine Syllable - II , for instance . It ’s an iPod shuffle with a ( round-eyed - profile LCD ) screen – how very original ! It ’s not on the button expensive though , at $ 99 a piece ( 1 GB solid - state flash lamp memory ) . The same can be articulate forRCA ’s M100 series , although this will require you to throw an extra 10 bucks prior to obtaining a 1 GB unit of measurement . There are 256 MB and 512 MB version uncommitted as well ( begin at $ 60 ) , if anyone cares .

Well , we prefer something like thei - Bead 700over all that cheap imitational bogus any day . This cunning , square - shaped black box seat not only looks hot like liquified lava , but also offers quite a few smashing feature article here and there . Despite its minuscule sizing ( 1.2 inch diam ) , the building block ’s TFT LCD is able to exhibit 160 x 128 pixels and 262k colors at any time . interpret to human terminology , this means “ one mighty fine - looking animated stamp perking up your DAP ” . All in all , the i - Bead 700 is n’t exactly vast in term of size either : measuring 45 x 45 x 16.5 mm and weighing some 38 grams , this affair will fit in most pocket without too much of a fuzz . Supported formats let in MP3 , AVI ( movies ! yay ! ) , WMA , ASF , OGG , JPEG and TXT , while the 700 also comes with a establish - in FM tuner and a phonation recording equipment . Capacities are said to be 512 Bachelor of Medicine and 1 GB , with a 2 GB edition total up . The estimated battery life of 20 continuous hour for audio playback ( and 3 hours for video recording playback ) is n’t that bad either . Plus , it comes with an alarm clock clock gash stop watch and some lethal - crisp corners to impress your enemies .

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Just a nimble heads up on theArchos AV530again : our French colleagues over at generationMP3 have taken the effort to review this juicy Video Recording Brick . All in all , they liked it very much … holler it a “ true evolution compared to the AV400 ” ( AV500 ’s successfull predecessor ) .

The initial reception for Dell ’s new disk jockey Ditty was far from “ overwhelming ” , really . This flash - based , screen - equiped 512 MB DAP really bore the crap out of most of us . Dell recognize the situation for what it was and come up with the wonderful mind of blackguard the whole thing quite effectively . The troupe ’s so - calledDitty - O’sare weird videos of some weird guy doing weird stuff while briefly mentioning the ever - so - dull disk jockey Ditty now and then . Hey , whatever works for them , good ? Pretty risible stuff to look at while recovering from the occassional space cake , really .

Alright , that was it for today , boys and girls .

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