I wanted something less restrictive than IPods, so yesterday I bought an MP4 player. Don’t get me wrong, I love Apple and what its doing, but not being able to copy my music for X quantity of times once I got it from Itunes Store is making me crazy, and the high cost of the IPods here at Argentina (almost $300 USD for an IPod Shuffle!!!) had a little bit to do with it too.
A regular MP3 player with no screen and with 128MB is about $180.00USD here at Argentina, and this baby is worth only $155.00USD! this are some of the features:
- Incredible small.
- Too light! I had an IPod video in my hands and you can tell the difference.
- 1.5 Inch LCD (65K colors).
- MP3 Player
- Video Player (AMV format - any know format like AVI or MPEG can be converted to AMV and for what I seen until now, a 44MB file ends up into a 4MB AMV file!).
- Voice recorder (excellent mic!)
- Photo slideshow and viewer.
- Video view
- FM Radio!
- Pen Drive! I can go with my files everywhere!
- Ebook reader! (of course, I won’t use this one! I love real books!)
- 1GB just for me!
And it’s worth only $155.00 USD!!! I still can believe it! I didn’t want to expend very much on me, so this baby is what I need! So far, I’m using just 17% of my space:
- 22 MP3
- Two Family Guy episodes
- One Futurama episodes
- Four chapters of Stephen Covey Audio Book
- Two Stanford University Podcasts (seminars) of 1:45 hs minutes each!
That’s incredible! I never loved a gadget so much like this one! Yes, isn’t that cute like an IPod, but is less expensive and it’s a lot more than just an IPod Shuffle (no screen, remember?) or an IPod nano (screen, but without video at least you put some linux into it, which it’s never recommended).
Now, you must be wondering what is the name of this awesome MP3-MP4 player don’t you? Well, to be honest, I will be feeling a lot better if you go to this is an awesome site (everyone should visit this one): anythingbutipod.com and make your choice!
I’m sure you are going to find a lot of other better MP3-MP4 players than mine there! I know I have!
Cheers
Javier Cabrera
P.S: I won’t say what brand it is because last time I did such a thing a lot of people asked me about specifications, drivers, support, etc. Even when I said I won’t be talking about a product again, so, in order to avoid those messages, I won’t say anything this time! But I’m sure you are going able to find better players than mine (I saw one in anythingbutipod.com for less than $170 USD with 60GB!). Enjoy!