“Philips is about to move into the hard-drive-based portable sound arena with its Micro Audio Jukebox, the HDD060. The player stores 1.5GB of MP3 or WMA files on a 1in hard drive, is the size of a (thick) credit card, and weighs 93g. Philips expects to have it on sale here late this month for $449 (US$365),” Ian Cuthbertson reports for Australian IT.
“Rather than competing with established hard drive-based portable sound devices such as Apple’s iPod and Creative’s Nomad Zen Jukebox, the HDD060 will face off against a new generation of smaller devices such as Apple’s iPod mini and Creative’s MuVo2. The HDD060 and the MuVo2 have 1.5GB capacity and will deliver about 350 MP3s on the go, while the iPod Mini has 4GB. All are slim
why make an offering like that? no value whatsoever.
One advantage, of course, that Philips will have over iPod mini is that there will actually be players to buy worldwide as Philips is not a rinky-dink outfit (run by tree-hugger veggie commie hippie butt-pirates) unable to ramp up production like Apple. The iPod mini is vaporware to everyone outside the U.S. People can’t buy what isn’t available for sale. Typical Apple. Typical stupidity. Typical losers.
Ron,
If you paid attention you’d know the bottleneck isn’t Apple being “unable to ramp up production”. Come on, if you are going to be a troll, at least show some awareness of the world around you and give us something with some meat.
Speaking of butt-pirates…
Did anyone see Queer Eye for the Straight Guy last night? They gave the straight guys’ step-daughter who is going off to college at new iBook and iPod. All her friends where so excited about the iPod.
I can’t image them screaming, “Like, oh my God, you, like got a new HDD060, u know.”
Philips who bought B&O…snip!
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tsk. Poor trolling effort – I give it a 2.0.
Philips isn’t run by stupid artsy fags longing for throat sausage, so therefore I’m sure they covered all their bases and made sure they’ll have enough drives. Apple is too stupid to think that far ahead, right, one-button mouse users? Philips is a real company, not a company that habitually cannot deliver product when it is wanted and habitually over-delivers products that are not wanted. Apple is a company made up of liberal, tree-huggin, bleeding heart Algores and H-Mo types. What do you expect? Losers as usual. Losers as always.
Well, regardless of drive supplier, I’m sure Philips will easily be able to provide enough of these players to satisfy the nonexistent demand. What a joke. Why bother?
Sorry ron – Philips is more artsy fag than you think:
From http://www.press.ce.philips.com/lachapelle/
“Philips Electronics has teamed up with award-winning photographer David LaChapelle to present Art Meets Technology, a unique photography show to benefit the Elton John AIDS Foundation. The event, which will take place in New York City on May 29 – 30, will feature a wide selection of LaChapelle�s latest unique and provocative photographs and videos presented on Philips FlatTVs� and Cineos� television products. A private opening-night party attended by LaChapelle and invited members of New York�s media, art world, celebrities and influential members of the gay community, will have the opportunity to view the vivid, avant-garde images displayed on the latest Philips technology. LaChapelle images and more than $70,000 in Philips products will be available for purchase in a silent auction to benefit the Elton John AIDS Foundation.”
i must have missed the memo that equated liberal and tree-hugger with bad and stupid. silly me.
Yawn.
ron,
Your posts are stupid, vulgar and simply reflect your immaturity and longing for attention. If you need a friend try buying a gold fish. I’d recommend a dog or cat but you probably don’t have the ability to take care of anything that requires more then cleaning out a fish tank and adding fish food. GO AWAY!!!!!!
Ron, what’s the saying about those who protest too much.
More evidence that the price of the mini was perfectly reasonable–on the low end in fact. I would have paid even more for my silver one…
Here’s hoping you get the “throat sausage” you subconciously want.
well ron, i am not “liberal tree-huggin hippe dancing free floating idealistic” whatever. i am mac user regardless of my conservative leanings. as for the liberal whatever classification, who cares? yes it is an election year, but just shut up. a mac user is a mac user, which is better than a pc idiot like yourself.
I HATE STUPID PEOPLE!
ahhhhh, i feel so much better now.
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This means nothing to me and my Dell DJ….that’s right I’m a player baby.
Check this link – the device is out already. At current exchange rate, it would cost $240 in the US.
http://194.206.235.236/dev/gui_web/shopping/index.php?fuseaction=voir_fiche_article&srcid=36&oldlangue=uk&oldlangueparle=uk&article=42295
you know what ron? don’t buy an ipod mini.
that was simple wasn’t it?
“but you probably don’t have the ability to take care of anything that requires more then cleaning out a fish tank and adding fish food.”
But pkradd, if he can actually keep his windows system up long enough to keep posting here he deserves some credit!
woah. at least it looks cool.. i mean..that’s gotta count for sth..
and wouldn’t every tech maker love to have the abundance of demand apple have..”not being able to meet demand” is a pretty sweet problem to have.. you know when you’re ‘dissing’ apple by complaining about the supply chain, you’re really scraping the bottom of the barrel.. lmao
ron, how dare you assume that all tree-hugger veggie commie hippie butt-pirates are Mac users? Here at “Trotsky’s Tofu & Marijuana Conservation Gay Men Monthly” we all use Windows XP, and we’re all delighted with it!!! Of course, it is possibly why our first issue still hasn’t hit the shops, as the damn things keep crashing.
Ron, you better hurry back to work. Someone wants to buy a Slurpee.
“woah. at least it looks cool.. i mean..that’s gotta count for sth..”
It does look pretty cool (as do most Philips products) but it has one major flaw other than WMA – USB 1.1 is the interface (per the link from Neil).