Zing-based DAPs to offer Sirius, downloading over WiFi

by Evan Blass, posted Jun 1st 2006 at 8:33PM

There's a new player in town looking to expose the Music Gremlin to some harsh sunlight, and with Sirius and VoIP capabilities along with the Gremlin-like WiFi and Bluetooth for sharing and downloading, the Zing reference device may prove to be a formidable nemesis for the player we first caught at CES. Cnet was hanging out at the D4 conference today and got to check out the Zing in action, and report that the device will enable third-party content providers to offer convenient PC-less download services, although unfortunately the Sirius-branded version will get its radio content not from satellites or terrestrial repeaters but solely through relatively short-range WLAN connections. Still, the built-in mic means that Zing-based products could potentially incorporate VoIP services as well, which would make them serious contenders for some of the musicphones on the market if not for their limited utility outside the range of a hotspot.

[Via Orbitcast, thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Filed under: Portable Audio, Wireless

Tags: bluetooth, dap, digital audio player, DigitalAudioPlayer, hotspots, music gremlin, music sharing, MusicGremlin, MusicSharing, reference devices, ReferenceDevices, satellite radio, SatelliteRadio, sirius, wifi, wlan, zing

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