Interesting news/reviews/deals from the portable audio market
Deal: Woot’s got the iRiver U10 (512MB) on sale today for $99 (add $5 for shipping). It’s the 512MB version; you can read our review here. As is the case Woot, the offer is valid for today only. If we may offer our humble recommendation… go for it.
Another positive review for the iRiver U10: but the small capacity (comes in 1GB and 2GB versions—remember that it can play videos) is quite a limiting factor. Read our previous coverage on the device. Oh, and if you’re in the US, you can win one if you sign up for iRiver’s newsletter before November 30. [...]
Avid readers of the site should already know by now that iRiver’s U10 is a highly-coveted device here at HiFi Blog HQ. We were let-down a bit when we found out that it reproduces videos at a not-so-great 15FPS rate (human eyes interpret 30FPS+ sequences as a continuous, fluid movement), but when we watched that [...]