Philips new HDD093 and HDD095 shuffles with Like Music
We guess now that the iPod shuffle's kind of taken the whole randomized music library thing and made it a desirable feature (we're not even going to touch that), it seems like other MP3 player manufacturers will be looking for what's next; so what's next? Well, it appears Philips—whose line of drive-based portable audio players we'd just assumed were languishing into obscurity—is due to release two more models, the HDD093 and HDD095, which will have 3GB drives, ten hours of battery life, play back MP3s and WMA, and have grayscale and color screens, respectively. But their new gimmick? It's called Like Music, and as the name implies if you engage it while listening to a song it'll pseudo-randomly and intelligently shuffle you up 20 more tracks that it thinks sounds similar to what's on (apparently it uses 40 metrics to grab tracks with a familiar beat, instument lineup, and tempo). Not too shabby if you ask us, especially for a player that looks as miniscule and (surprisingly) well designed as this, which is a bit of a change for Philips and their otherwise clunky players.
