Oct
12
Briefly: HP iPods discounted, Archos Gmini 402 review, Yahoo! Podcasts, Creative Zen Sleek Photo video, Legal downloads vs piracy, Nano-scratching
- Deal: HP discounts leftover iPods (there’s a 15% off instant rebate on the 512MB and 1GB Shuffle, the 4GB Mini and the 20GB iPod; if you want cheap shipping costs though, prepare for a wait of 1-2 weeks)
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- Yahoo! Podcasts launches (search, listen, review/tag/rate podcasts—Odeo is probably not too happy about this [via]
- Video: Creative Zen Sleek Photo (the 1.75-inch color OLED screen sucks, plus you can’t view pictures and listen to music at the same time—considering the reports that the device suffers from a lag when handling pictures, I assume this is because of memory/processing power issues; here’s a bunch of pictures of the device) [via]
- iTunes shuffles pirates aside (“He explained that while most digital tracks once came from P2P services, today’s music collections show fewer pirated tracks and a “rising incidence” of legal downloads. 17 per cent of music buyers acquired tracks from legal services in the first half of the year, NPD said – up 11 per cent on 2004.”)
- Scratches Mar New iPod’s Beauty (Mossberg: “If I were reviewing the nano today, I would still call it “the best combination of beauty and functionality of any music player I’ve tested,” as I did in my review. But I would include a strong, prominent, warning that it scratches too easily in normal usage. This is a real downside to an otherwise excellent product.”—well, guess it’s official now; by the way, here are some pics of how a Nano looks like after three weeks of normal use) [via]
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