IOPS knocks the U1 already?

We already know knocking off the bigger little digital audio players is the new hotness, but damned if IOPS didn't already knock off Samsung's new YP-U1 with this OLED equipped 2GB candybar audio player, complete with unfolding USB plug underneath. Ok, who wants to bet it's based on Samsung flash memory?

[hastings @ Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM]

#1,

Oh god, NOT A TYPO! THE ENTIRE ARTICLE IS RUINED.

Go outside, Engadget is run by humans, they make mistakes.

[Mister Smith @ Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM]

iOPS has made several models in the past that look just like this, complete with swing-out USB. If anything, Samsung is the one copying Iops. And it's iOPS, not iOps.

http://vamp-mp3.com/iops/index.html

http://www6.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=84971

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=IOPS-256&cat=MP3&cpc=USB

[arnold @ Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM]

I think I'm OK with my digital player, what I'm considering now is a digital music system, such as the phillips wacs 700 , http://www.streamium.com/ , or the musica from olive media (
http://www.olive.us/p_bin/?cid=01_06_musica ), do you guys know anything about these?

[arnold @ Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM]

I think I'm OK with my digital player, what I'm considering now is a digital music system, such as the phillips wacs 700 , http://www.streamium.com/ , or the musica from olive media (
http://www.olive.us/p_bin/?cid=01_06_musica ), do you guys know anything about these?

[Max SMoke @ Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM]

These new 2GB and 4GB players sound great, but really, they aren't that useful.

For one thing, it's not enough space for your entire collection, only part of it. And if you're going to carry around part of your collection, that means you are going to want to swap it out, semi-regularly, for new music. So all you are doing is buying time between playlist swaps. If you're music library is constantly growing, you aren't going to want to go to longer then a week between swapping your player's musical inventory. So really, once you get past 512MB, it's kinda pointless. You'll never listen to all of that music (10+ hours worth) before you will want to change the music in the player. Most people listen to their music players less then an hour a day. Unless you are the kind of person that listens to music 24/7, it just get's pointless.

(And if you do listen to music 24/7, you might want to put down that "Life Track" you are using to drown out the real world and try using those ears on your head for something more then just holding up your Raybans)

20GB's is the minimum for a decent collection. Anything less is too small! :p

[Samuel Lago @ Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM]

I just like the look of them