Registered: May 2000
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New sweet looking Ipod competitor

Has anyone else seen this unit, it was in this past week's Parade magazine in my newspaper. Has anyone ever used any of e Digital's other players, what is the quality and reviews on them?

This one has voice recognition, FM tuner, and voie recording capability!

http://www.edigital-store.com/odyssey1000.html

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I smell lawsuit. The form factor is remarkably similar to the iPod and Apple is notorious for litigation against those manufacturing knock-offs of their industrial design.

Nice feature list it has, tho.

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I don't know, it may look similar but it has no dial pad like the Ipod. It looks like it uses a scroll wheel in the middle of the pad and buttons around the edges.

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Voice controls? I'm impressed.

Any word on if it uses some wacky file loading program like the iPod, or if it simply appears as a hard drive like the Archos?

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Originally posted by John Nowak
Voice controls? I'm impressed.

Any word on if it uses some wacky file loading program like the iPod, or if it simply appears as a hard drive like the Archos?

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Originally posted by Hoser_back_home


on that link above...under the 'specifications' list, it states:

"Appears as �Mass Storage Device� on your PC"


so i'm thinking it's drag and drop?

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Originally posted by Hoser_back_home
on that link above...under the 'specifications' list, it states:

"Appears as �Mass Storage Device� on your PC"

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it stores mass?

hey, portable hole!

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Whoa the specs are sweet. If this thing is not vapoware I will consider buying one.

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Originally posted by Yorick

it stores mass?

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Not sure I want to admit this in public, but I really liked that comment.

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If I didn't already have an ipod, I would probaly get this one, just because of the FM ability.

The ipod is still better looking.

Odyssey is bigger but lighter.

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Here is another unit although it sounds more like vaporware.

http://www.neurosaudio.com/

Very cool features though like recording from the FM radio directly to MP3 and the ability to record a 30 second sound byte and then th next time you synch the unit searches the internet for the song title and artist.

Oh, and one last cool thing...wireless play back through your home or car stereo system through an FM preset. Wow!

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