“If you can’t beat ’em, copy ’em. Creative Technology today began selling an updated version of its MuVo2 hard drive-based music player in five alternative colours reminiscent of Apple’s iPod Mini,” Tony Smith reports for The Register. “The MuVo2 FM contains a 5GB hard drive, up from the current MuVo2’s 4GB unit. With a removeable, rechargeable battery that Creative claims can provide up to 14 hours’ playback, the device can output WMA, MP3 and WAV audio through a four-band equaliser with four pre-sets and a custom EQ option.”
The MuVo will not play songs purchased from Apple’s market-dominating iTunes Music Store which are encoded in AAC-protected format.
Smith reports, “Creative isn’t alone in attempting to take on the iPod Mini. Fellow MP3 player maker Rio Audio this week began shipping its 5GB Rio Carbon, and European PC provider Packard Bell is preparing a 5GB model of its own. The last two are one-colour models – so far Creative appears to be the first music player company to follow Apple’s lead down the multi-colour route.”
Full article here.
What a piece of garbage. They should mov it to the trash because I wouldn’t pay $245.00 for it. Are those little tiny buttons supposed to be controls? I can’t believe how Real is trying everything in its power to copy or steal from Apple. And yet doing such a BAD job of it. It’s not going to help you Real so just get over it and admit to defeat already.
If you read the whole article it mentions that this model comes with a built in FM receiver. WTF were they thinking? I don’t go and buy a 300 dollar mp3 player so that I can listen to the radio instead of my 1000 songs…nice thinking.
The custom EQ option is nice, but the design is poor… It looks like you have a CD player…
Whatever.
Cool! This’ll definitly kill the iPod, not that it needed any help.
And then my beloved Dell DJ will be King of the Hill.
LOL, what a crap.
Seems history repeating. Big success iMac 1st series 5 colors and what idiots around started to do? Sell the same crap in colors as the iMac. As if one was buying the iMac because it was in color.
Idiots: it’s not the color.
PS
What’s more, if the picture is color-correct those are… YUCK!
Did I say crap?
UGLY !
These Creative clowns obviously have no idea about design. Even the ancient Greeks knew more.
Want to know why the iPod is so wildly successful ? In part it’s the interface, but in part it’s the external dimensions. It just looks attractive. Why is that ? Because of the height to width ratio.
The iPod’s external dimensions are 4.1 by 2.4, a ratio of 1.71. That’s close to the Golden Ratio of 1.618. Think that’s just an accident ?
What? Plays WMA, no AAC, no iTMS? Then fuggeddaboutit.
“Creative appears to be the first music player company to follow Apple’s lead down the multi-colour route”
ROFLMAO, and that should entice me to buy it HOW?
“Honey, I really really want a digital music player. You know, one of those, but PINK please”
“Sure will, sugar, only Apple and Creative offer them in color. Which one you had in mind”
“Ohh, I do not care, you know, as long as it is PINK. One or the other will be the same”
ROFLMAO
What a bunch of friggin idiots. Creative, the color-BLINDED digital player manufacturer.
YUK!
THEY LOOK BLOODY AWFUL!
Just goes to show – you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear!
It’s a bloody ugly player anyway without those colours!
NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOO STYLE!
they picked the SAME colors thats so LAME lolol
those are so not sexy like my mini.
they look like somebody dropped a radio and picked up a broken piece from inside.
and im supposed to go to songs without a wheel now?
Is it only Apple that can think for themselves nowadays? Why don’t these guys innovate or fcuk off. At least HP were honest enough to admit they couldn’t ‘invent’.
this company is my b*tch.. I have been reading hilarious articles about this company for a few years now.. ever since the CE push…
I have read some HILARIOUS stuff from their CEO.. Sim Jong Kip or whatever.. who is basically kicking and screaming that they only get respect as a sound card company.
boo hoo.. boring brand name, crappy products, just-good-enough mentality, no innovation..
and now this..
hey, here’s something funny.. what would be the news story were it not for the colours..
try to imagine what those things would look like.. without any colours.. they’d look like 1997 no-name MiniDisc ripoffs.
BUTT UGLY with a PINK BACKGROUND IS STILL BUTT UGLY
Some wise person painfully said words to the effect that ” No one has ever gone broke UNDER estimating the taste of the majority of the population. So fear away, this ugly duckling could become a problem for Apple
i think we all know what the population’s taste is. ipods. no estimating needed its old news :p
Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery. They know the iPod is #1 and they don’t stand a chance against it.
Another toy that claims 14 hours and 2500 songs based on a bitrate that’s slightly better than tin cans and strings.
Can’t say I’m overly worried about what it looks like when it’s in my pocket most of the time, but since the sound quality is apparently better than the ipod mini and the battery lasts twice as long AND it’s cheaper…
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