Sep
18
Briefly: Nano flawed screen, Fuel cell market to go up, Digital music market shares, Nano speaker alarm clock, iPod announcement rumor
- iPod nano flawed screen? (prone to cracking, even if you don’t abuse it; there are reports about this in Apple’s forums too, and someone’s already made up a website about it)
- Mobile Fuel Cells Market to Reach $1.6 Billion by 2010, Says New Report (and apparently 2006 is the take-off year; also see our report on Toshiba’s smallest DMFC unit) [via]
- Napster, Yahoo! Fighting For Second In Online Music (iTMS: 82% of the digital music market; Napster, Yahoo, fight for the rest with both Napster and Yahoo going well) [via
- iPod nano speaker alarm clock (you can use the nano just fine with the Griffin TuneBox, a small set of speakers mean to pair with the iPod shuffle; these go for $39) [via]
- Rumor: Major iPod announcement in November? (“We have confirmed with several inside industry sources that Apple plans on making another major iPod announcement in November”; that’s it, no other details—as with all rumors, please take with a big grain of salt)
Before leaving the site, have a look at our most popular entries:
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[...] Problems surfacing with iPod Nano screen (we’ve reported on this last week; iPodNN noted that iPodResQ raised its iPod nano screen replacement by a wooping 50 bucks to $145 “due to LCD availability and overwhelming demand”; the Register thinks Apple, who has “no comment” for the time being, will improve the polycarbonate formula for the Nano’s screen silently soon, leaving first adopters in cold water; also read the respective thread on Apple’s discussion boards) [...]
...added by HiFi Blog -- Briefly: Nano screen problems, Baxter CD/DVD Duplicator, iTunes 5.01, Nokia 3250, i-Bead 700, Nano review /// November 14th, 2005 at 02:25 AM