Sanyo's HDR-B5GM 5GB digital voice recorder
Might not ever make it outside of Japan, but Sanyo just introduced the HDR-B5GM, a new portable digital voice recorder with a 5GB hard drive that will retail for over $500 when it comes out next month. Not as much of a milestone as they'd like you to think, since there are already plenty of hard drive-based MP3 players out there that can double as voice recorders (you could add Griffin's iTalk or Belkin's Universal Microphone Adapter to a 20GB iPod and still come out way ahead). No doubt the audio quality of the HDR-B5GM's recordings are better than what you'd get with your standard MP3 player's voice recording function, but if you're just recording interviews or class lectures, is it worth the extra few hundred bucks?
