Watch out Apple, because Dell is poised to unveil an MP3 player and music downloads service, according to company insiders. The Wall Street Journal has it on good authority from a mole within Dell that the PC manufacturer has already designed and tested its own MP3 player. The gadget’s thought to feature a small iPod Nano-esque display and allow users to navigate through tracks with a scroll wheel that’s integrated into the player and positioned just below the display.The mole’s also said that Dell intends to launch an “online download service” that sources tracks and video content from several unnamed sources. This could be done directly through the Dell MP3 player, because it’s also thought to feature Wi-Fi connectivity.
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Apple has the best mp3 players? What exactly are you smoking?
Actually, up until the current generation (i.e. iPod Video and previous) the players' hardware was actually very good. The batteries were always slightly flaky, but the same could be said of most players in its class.
Either way, the actual hardware is quite nice; I bought a 30GB iPod Video from eBay and put Rockbox on it, and it sounds brilliant (not using the Apple earphones of course, heh). Shame they switched to a cheaper sound chipset for the current gen, really.
I have SSH on my iPod, what does yours do. Haha!
Apple has the best mp3 players? What exactly are you smoking?
I don't know what both of you are smoking but I'm smoking some good weed
DELL will need a miracle to compete with Apple, this is like comparing David vs Goliath.
Last edited by Lasker on 30 Jul 2008 - 14:42
DELL will need a miracle to compete with Apple, this is like comparing David vs Goliath.
agreed
most likely they'll do an old school iriver thing (like the H300 or H100 series, full of features and big on size!
As far as portable music players, the iPod is great but a Microsoft's Zune is just as good if not even better than the iPod. Of course Apple went to market first and did a bang up job not to mention the tie in to iTunes and you get consumers that are essentially locked in. Of course they can switch to another service but lets be honest; going through the hassel of converting hundredes if not thousands of tracks and videos would not be worth the troulbe for the average user. As such, Apple will likely retain its lead in the this segment for a long time
DELL will need a miracle to compete with Apple, this is like comparing David vs Goliath.
That's a really bad example. You remember what happened to Goliath right?
Every person owns a TV, doesn't mean new entrants won't make tv's.
The idea is to give better products at a competitive price.
I don't Agee. I got an iPhone recently and it's been amazing. The battery lasts all day for me and that's using wifi as well.
Amazon have done it right. Music for all devices. That's the only thing I see taking on the iPod. Microsoft shot themselves in the foot by following the iPod/iTunes model. The device itself is great but really another media player to install and manage, no thanks. They should really get the WMP team back working and tie everything into that properly like the Amazon marketplace.
It's like punching yourself in the face, then 20 minutes later, not remembering if it hurt, so you punch yourself again.
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