MP4 is here, yay!

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!

March 10 , 2006 by Javier

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7 comments on “MP4 is here, yay!”

I saw an iPod Nano yesterday, they are so incredible small. But I agree with you, they are overpriced, you have to pay for the brand too much.

anty
11 of March 2006 at 6:11 am

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.

So, you replaced it with something that won’t even play music from the iTunes store? It is possible to play music that you haven’t bought from the iTunes store on an iPod, you know ;).
Aaanyway, cool gizmo though. When I work for you in your London office, can I have one?

Tim
11 of March 2006 at 7:48 am

Anty, I agree!

Tim: damn you, Vaughan! ;) yes, I knew already about the Itunes store, but I wasn’t well informed until I read your post. It lead me to find more info about it; I thought I was only able to copy any MP3 from the IPod “X” several times, but I was wrong.
But that wasn’t much of the deal for me. The worst thing was to pay almost $300 for just an IPod Shuffle, without even an LCD Screen. I wanted the whole package, movies and mp3; so this little fellow is handy on that way.

London Office? You expect that after we take over London and I set an office there people will still call it London? nah, we will choose another name for it, you and me; so start thinking on a cool one mate!

Javier
11 of March 2006 at 11:40 am

i saw that player the other day at “argie ebay”
i think was the ‘best’ and the more accesible (to the regular argentinean pocket) player.
i mean, a player with the half of storage, costs a $100 less than this…
and i still can’t believe why people keeps buying that horrible mini-mp3-player-with-blue-display, its awful. it has no space for anything, looks horrible, its expensive (comparing to other mp3 players)
everybody has it (although it doesn’t nothing to do with the mp3 player itself, is not nice to have the same *thing* that everybody else has…)

its good to know this player its a good choice.
(because i was planning to buy one of these)

…DONT GET SCARED I WONT ASK YOU ABOUT SPECS OR DRIVERS ;D

mauro
16 of March 2006 at 12:50 pm

Hey Javier, or anybody, what software you are using to convert the video files for .amv? where I can download it???

tks

dennys
23 of April 2006 at 11:54 pm

Ohhh I told everyone I won’t be taken more “tech” questions. I love to help people, but they tend to ask the same questions over and over. In most of the cases, I will answer USE GOOGLE FOR YOURSELF; but in this case, I must give you an answer because it’s very hard to find out the software… it’s in chinnese.

It came with the product, inside a CD. I don’t really know where you can find it, I hope you can. Best luck! ;)

Javier
24 of April 2006 at 12:03 pm

I want these player to install in my computer to play songs in these.

ankush
14 of June 2006 at 10:34 am

clear.your.mind

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