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- chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -29/+192looks like a pregnant iPod. Maybe it'll give birth to a shuffle.
- ArnoldTPants, on 10/12/2007, -71/+206Thank god the zune doesn't look like that. That is one ugly mp3 player.
- mightymouse, on 10/12/2007, -39/+153looks like a pregnant woman.
- Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -17/+102It's sleek, but a little weird looking... Points for being able to play OGG and FLAC, but -10 points for having "Hips Don't Lie" by Shakira on it's display.
- TheOAF, on 10/12/2007, -4/+70$280 for just 15G. I don't care how cool it looks.
- interrogate, on 10/12/2007, -30/+87looks fine to me
- Valarauka, on 10/12/2007, -10/+65@mightymouse - that's exactly what I thought when I saw the pictures ... and then I noticed it was playing "Hips don't lie" ...
- j10s, on 10/12/2007, -4/+59"Most authorities regard the wheel as one of the oldest and most important inventions, which originated in ancient Sumer in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) in the 5th millennium BC, originally in the function of potter's wheels. The wheel reached India and Pakistan with the Indus Valley Civilization in the 3rd millennium BC. The earliest depiction of what may be a wheeled vehicle (here a wagon -- four wheels, two axles), is on the Bronocice pot, a ca. 4000 BC clay pot excavated in southern Poland."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel
Apple did not invent the wheel. - jackal42, on 10/12/2007, -43/+93That thing looks really bad.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+53Why, is your mom in the room?
(ohhhhh!) - hiPpymIck, on 10/12/2007, -2/+44...."this battery is capable of offering upwards of 20 hours of enjoyment"....
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(you might have trouble walking afterwards tho) - nonsapiens, on 10/12/2007, -22/+52Heh... it looks like a lady's sanitary pad ...
- dpknc84, on 10/12/2007, -29/+57"You Have Never Seen An MP3 Player Like This"
Yeah until you showed me this monstrosity. Thanks alot. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -37/+59was that meant to look good?
- accesory, on 10/12/2007, -11/+32I kinda like it, though I agree with Jason- the name's gotta go
- JasonInOregon, on 10/12/2007, -13/+34Sort of reminds me of a futuristic Lady Schick razor. A moment goes by and then it looks oddly appealing. Then it looks funny again. If you flip it upside down, it's got a J-Lo shape.
The name, "vibez", is kinda creepy. At least the vibez doesn't come in clunky poo brown.
I would try it out if the opportunity arose. - raabco, on 10/12/2007, -11/+28"If only the Zune looked like this!"
Am I the last consumer that prefers more about how a product performs than how it looks?
The latest offerings seem to suggest this. - Gunsmith, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17ogg and flac support. hmmmmm
- Desolite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14uh.. the first iPod looks like a bar of soap.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -11/+25The screen is too small. Future media players will utilize larger(and bendable) screens.
- De3po, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14I like the look of it but almost 300 bucks for 15 gigs! Wow I would never pay that much for so little.
- csrster, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16People can see my house/trousers/pc. So can I. My mp3 player lives in my coat pocket 99% of the time.
- scottschiller, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Woah! Actually, I HAVE seen an MP3 player like this. ;)
This thing reminds me of the Sonique MP3 player (Win32 program), popular (and honestly, quite cool) before WinAmp got huge in 1997 or so (Sonique was subsequently bought out by Lycos, and has pretty well died since then.)
UI screenshots for reference:
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&p=sonique+mp3+player
They had some really cool UI effects and sliding animations, the player was truly ahead of its time.
I kinda wonder if this article is just a "Shill" for the player here, given it's first bashing MS (easy/popular move), then talking about something else.. well, that's my conspiracy theory. Dugg anyway. - 1021, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14fine skyshock, I'll do it for him:
ohhhhhhhhhh! Good one solar, +3 from me :-) - ElMoselYEE, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14owned + it's not an ipod escape wheel...it's an iPod-esque wheel.
- gameforge, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16You know what? I bought a Creative Zen NX Jukebox like three years ago. It's big, it's heavy... but I love it. It's pewter colored. It is the exact shape of a Sony Walkman. It stores 20GB and cost less years ago than this one does @ 15GB. It has a VERY reasonable battery life (enough to get me through a full day of work). Most wouldn't steal it because it's big enough to be a tape player.
But you know what its best feature is? It's several years old, still holds a respectable battery charge, and it still works perfectly. And it's kept getting better as Creative reworked the UI & whatnot over the years. I haven't heard of too many iPods lasting that long.
Oh, and its other best feature is that it has no clue from DRM.
The only thing I dislike is that, with thousands of songs, it can be cumbersome (not hard, just time consuming) to find what you're looking for. The later Creative players are much better about this.
I would never buy an MP3 player from anyone else (and no I don't work for Creative, and to prove it, I thumb my nose at their attitude on Linux, and will not purchase another Creative sound card for this reason).
Anyway, you are most definitely not alone in the function over form preference... I own an IBM ThinkPad which is essentially a black square box (and a truly fantastic laptop), my desktop pc is in a black tower with three white 5-1/4" drives, and my office (at my home) has puke colored carpet, white wallpaper with red and brown stripes, a harvest gold couch, grey garage cabinets, fake varnish paneled bookshelves, an antique desk, a folding computer table, a chair with mismatching seat and back, florescent lighting (which adds a touch of ugliness to everything), etc.
Nothing matches anything else in my life. I love it, it's my unintentional, unique style. :-) - ZeroNeo, on 10/12/2007, -6/+17yes,
Performance is an important factor, but so are looks. That's why you decorate your house, match your shirt with your trousers or mod your pc. - Berkana, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14Good point. However, aesthetics are definitely more important for establishing brand identity, and on that front, the Zune is a follower, not an innovator. I don't like the look of this player as much as the iPod, but I do give them credit for striking out a new path for design.
My biggest point of contention about this design is the rectangle-inside-a-circle look with the display in the top circle. The rectangular display just shows that they didn't have the guts to go all out and make a non-rectangular display. They could have at least rounded the corners; the sharp corners look terrible in that top circle and ruin the consistency of their aesthetics. - imjustsayin, on 10/12/2007, -6/+16If MS had made the Zune look like this, the same people would have been criticizing them for not learning about simplicity from the iPod.
MS could have given away gold bars with each Zune sold and they would still have been panned. Business as usual.
Not that I have any current interest in owning a Zune. - oddball, on 10/12/2007, -7/+17Do you ever feel like Digg has just become the worlds headquarters for ***** viral marketing? Who really dugg this? It is ugly, has a tiny screen, ***** capacity. There are people who get paid to sit around and talk up stuff on forums, and I am sure they are getting paid to digg things up the front page
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -11/+20That does not look appealing to me
- kolop1, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12I have never seen an mp3 player, that looks like a bar of soap before.
- raabco, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11"Performance is an important factor, but so are looks. That's why you decorate your house, match your shirt with your trousers or mod your pc."
Only 2 people know what my MP3 player looks like, and neither of them would be able to guess the maker just from seeing it. While I listen to it quite often, it spends the majority of it's active social life in my pocket, out of view from everyone, including it's most important fan; me. No, I'm not ashamed of it, and if someone asked, I'd show them. I just don't feel the need to flaunt my trendiness in order to boost my sagging ego. Nor do I feel the need to follow the herd in interests of making friends. If you do, that's fine, and way to go champ, or whatever. I'm just one of the remaining few that hold on to the ideal that things should work for function before impressing for style. - Flankk, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13What kids see a gadget called Vibez and think, "this must be cool, it's pluralized with a 'Z'." A bunch of old marketing execs must sit in these focus groups researching what will sell to a young demographic with research papers a decade old.
- spoozer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11I like it. Looks pretty neat to me.
- iskatebad914, on 10/12/2007, -16/+24my eyes are bleeding
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Sennheiser earbuds. Right on. I only use Sennheiser headphones/earbuds. Nice specs on this one, cool design. Might tempt me.
- kungfumaniac, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11Very feminine.
Strange: suddenly I have the urge to purchase footwear. - sariduvar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Given its name, I was expecting something that looked like the tricoders in TNG.
- EzarKun, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Looks like a mutated cow.
What is that huge bulge anyways, the youch pad, why so huge. The screen should be huge not that.
Or maybe its feels like boobs, favourable by many men. - Stingr, on 10/12/2007, -9/+15And it has bad taste in music too.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Like i said in another post, this was spammed... they're trying to sell their product through affiliates. It was obvious when all of the negative comments were getting dugg down. They don't have enough people working for them to beat the digg users.
- plingboot, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8The guy that designed the iPod is also European. urgh gross!
- ElMoselYEE, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9thumbs down for lack of a SE friendly URL
- ayeroxor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"You Have Never Seen An MP3 Player Like This"
I Hope I Stop Seeing Headlines Like This Too. - IHaveIssues, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Why is that wheel so damned big?
- neko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5ogg and flac support are very nice.
but the killer feature for me is (proper) usb mass storage support - i.e. if I drop a mp3 file on the device, can it play it?
Had a look at the toshiba gigabeat, but sadly it's not an ~actual~ mp3 player. It can only play .sac files (the encrypted .mp3 or .wmv files created by the media transfer protocol - what a piece of *****) - Cojawfee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6A carbon nanotube antenna would cut your head in half when people yanked the earbuds out of your ears.
- ummagummas08, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I like it, it looks like a sleek MP3 player to me. Why does everyone have such a beef with something new? They're not FORCING you to buy it, it's just a nice alternative to the uniformity of iPods. Jeez. At least it has a cool scroll wheel, unlike the creative one.
- Berkana, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9They say that "sex sells". Maybe the two circles (one of which must be fondled to control the interface) and the "Vibez" name are supposed to be evocative.
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