I expect nothing short of harsh criticism from Engadget editors for such a perfect product. I mean clearly, what good is a gadget that isn't encumbered by a crappy VGA camera and the ability to play videos on a 1.2 inch screen, coupled with a proprietary battery that might get you a couple hours between charges?
Whether it's properly marketed as such is subject to debate but this is a DAP made for true music fanatics. I have more music than will currently fit onto a portable player so getting my entire collection onto one device is out of the question. That being the case, I know I'll be changing up the selections pretty often so 2 or 3 gigs at a time is just fine.
Since nearly all of my digital music was either ripped from my own CD collection or downloaded from a DRM-free P2P like Soulseek, MP3 and WMA is all I need. If a proprietary music file ever found it's way onto one of my boxes, my Naked Raygun MP3's would kick the shit out of it.
Finally, a small LCD capable of showing me what's playing is, again, pretty much all I need. More importantly, an oversized battery-sucking color screen is exactly what I *don't* need to keep the tunes rolling for days at a time. You can Ebay yourself a truckload of AA and AAA batteries for a few bucks, effectively giving you months of play time without ever having to plug it in.
And it's not like Panasonic just pulled this out of their ass; they've been making similar, extremely portable DAP's for a while now:
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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I expect nothing short of harsh criticism from Engadget editors for such a perfect product. I mean clearly, what good is a gadget that isn't encumbered by a crappy VGA camera and the ability to play videos on a 1.2 inch screen, coupled with a proprietary battery that might get you a couple hours between charges?
Whether it's properly marketed as such is subject to debate but this is a DAP made for true music fanatics. I have more music than will currently fit onto a portable player so getting my entire collection onto one device is out of the question. That being the case, I know I'll be changing up the selections pretty often so 2 or 3 gigs at a time is just fine.
Since nearly all of my digital music was either ripped from my own CD collection or downloaded from a DRM-free P2P like Soulseek, MP3 and WMA is all I need. If a proprietary music file ever found it's way onto one of my boxes, my Naked Raygun MP3's would kick the shit out of it.
Finally, a small LCD capable of showing me what's playing is, again, pretty much all I need. More importantly, an oversized battery-sucking color screen is exactly what I *don't* need to keep the tunes rolling for days at a time. You can Ebay yourself a truckload of AA and AAA batteries for a few bucks, effectively giving you months of play time without ever having to plug it in.
And it's not like Panasonic just pulled this out of their ass; they've been making similar, extremely portable DAP's for a while now:
http://www.dynamism.com/d-snap/
http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/29/panasonics-256mb-svmp710vw-dap/
... and somebody bought 'em.
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