Sony’s new MP3 players to compete with Apple iPod
Hardware News October 26th, 2004
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Sony’s new MP3 players to compete with Apple iPod
Sony finally gave into the public demand and came out with digital music players which support the popular music format MP3. This would make many Sony fans out there very happy who still swear by the Walkman brand name. Sony until now was using proprietary technology for their music players, which caused format compatibility problems for the owners.
The move of course is targeted to go mainstream in selling digital music players. A market which is currently dominated by Apple’s iPod. With iTunes to support it, iPod has done to the Digital Music Player market what Sony did with their Walkman. However, some bad decisions (made to keep piracy at bay) fired back and they are now ready to take on iPod with these new players.
The new players are smaller than credit card in size and weigh around 40 grams. Result is lesser storage capacities of 1GB and 512Megs, not exactly good enough to hold entire music collection of an average teen. I personally have 12 Gigs of music stored on this system. But would be good enough to last for days if not weeks.
The players at the moment are only available for sale in Europe. Sony has yet not decided on when to move to other markets like Asia and USA.
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yeah, I’ll stick with my iPod.
i’m not a mac user by any means,,,, but you just can’t beat the pod
Sony’s ‘Ipod killer’ still can not play AAC (MP4).
Until sony’s players can… they really are not competing with Apple.
iPod rocks, iTunes sucks.
no one can beat apple ipod!!!
Sony is too late.
If it does not support AAC, it will even further late.
I bought ipod just because it support lossless compression and AAC format.
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i personnaly think are rubbish really, thier battery life is not that amazing and they cant play wma (windows media player) music, they dont have a radio, or a voice recorder.
personnaly i would go for a zen micra which ticks all the boxes and has a gig more space than the mini ipod, and looks so sexy, but anyway soon mp3 players will be in the past and digital media players will be the way forward
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I also personally think that IPOD SUCKS - you are wasting your money if you buiy one - all you are buying is the brand name and nothing else - doesnt even have fm radio - voice recording etc….. DONT BUY AN IPOD - NEVER
Ipod is the best unit i ever have of music download catergory.
its has truckload of quality in any sort of performences.but Radio????? what is that for cybers?well!that doesnt make any sense to a Mp3.dont mind!Ipod was not designed for you.I dont feel a grain of dissatisfaction about it,wich is heplful,and savorily portible.