Interesting news/reviews/deals from the portable audio market
What could be better than having all of your favorite songs at your fingertips, accessible with the press of a button with sound quality that could blow the room away? Combine your iPod with the new iPod Hi-Fi stereo system, and you’ll have a sound system that will make anyone green with pure envy.
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The versatility of the iPod is ever growing and changing. New add-ons and products are developed every day to make the iPod more versatile and resourceful. In fact, Apple has to fight to keep up with other MP3 technologies that are currently available on the market. Many of the other players available [...]
In our article iPhone Rumors we speculated that Apple might pull the trigger on the iPhone. There has bee so much hype and speculation that we thought it was going to become almost like an urban myth.
Apple did pull the trigger on the iPhone, and the news and reviews on it so far are positive. [...]
The new Zune MP3 player brought excitement to the MP3 player market. But apparently Zune sales are not so good, and the fact that iTunes was clogged with four times as many consumers this Christmas compared to last Christmas tells you something about who is going to be king for a while.
Consumers who [...]
There have been rumors for years about Apple developing an iPod iPhone. It seems that these rumors may be true and the development may finally come to fruition.
The iPod iPhone will probably not be like typical MP3 cellular phones. An MP3 cellular phone adds music to communications, whereas converting an iPod to a cellular phone [...]
Q4 financial results and conference call notes
$230.9M in sales ($305.4M a year ago)
$12.7M net loss ($31.9M a year ago)
Verdict? Betten than last year, but stil… Michael from epiZENter also jotted some notes from the conference call—interesting to see they’re pushing the X-Fi technology, talking about a future product that is connected to the Zen Vision:M [...]
More details on Zune’s interface and features: nice write-up from the iLounge guys:
The big question being asked around these parts right now is whether Zune has any feature so compelling that it can really rival the iPod juggernaut. Right now, the feeling is that Microsoft may have gotten a few things closer to right than [...]
According to a WSJ story (registration req. to read the article—ATRACLife has republished it), Sony admitted to reporters they failed to meet the initial sales target for their new line of models introduced over the past year. Sony president Ryoji Chubachi, who was quoted saying “We miscalculated with the Walkman”, declined to point out a [...]
iPod charger inside a 9V battery: neat hack. [via]
Question: what happens when you rate a song on the iPod, rate it on iTunes differently, and sync the two? Answer: The iTunes rating prevails even if it took place before the iPod rating. (For the record, playcounts are recorded correctly, since both the extra playbacks on the iPod and on iTunes are added, regardless [...]