Japanese manufacturer Logitec -- who, as we found out the hard way, is in no way related to the
American Swiss firm Logitech -- has just announced a colorful set of in-car DAPs that plug directly into your vehicle's lighter socket. What's more, the MP3- and WMA-capable LAT-FM300U includes both a built-in FM transmitter and line-in jack, so you can broadcast directly to your head unit from either the device itself or from an external player like an iPod. And judging by the $68 price tag and lack of storage information, it sounds like you'll probably
need to bring along a more capacious device on trips lasting longer than an hour or so, as we doubt you'll be getting more than 512MB of flash memory when these drop in early August.
[Via
Digital World Tokyo]
posted Jun 29th 2006 4:11PM
Japanese / American !?
Well, the "American firm Logitech" is actually a Swiss company with a large American subsidiary...
^^^ Thank you I was just about to say. Everything is not American.
BTW, he was saying that Logitec is Japanese note the spelling difference. Logitech is in fact Swiss.
looks like a USB host port on it, probably doens't have any on board storage at all.
There's a company (VR3) that makes the same thing.
I bought one of their units at Target for $30.
No onboard storage, you use usb flash drives, It supports
mp3, wma, has a line in jack with custom cable that
fits most devices with the 1/8" mini stereo plug.
Also built in FM transmitter.
see old engadget article about it - LOL
http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/23/vr3-fm-modulator-turns-flash-drives-into-car-audio-players/
FM transmitter units SUCK. WTF are people doing still buying that crap? honestly, FM radio is bad it's hard to believe people put up with that. Either use a line-in aux port or install one in your car.
FM transmitters...blech.
More pics here:
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/av/docs/20060628/logitec.htm
You can get this at RM40 (approx USD10) from Malaysia. China made.
No onboard storage, you can plug in your thumbdrive.
A quick google will find you a VR3, VR7, VR8 and VR9, all with USB and line in, the latter with shuffle, memory, SD slot and ID3-tag display.
Just got a VR9 for 30 quid, which is about 50USD.
Check on ebay.
I'm surprised that they got away with the name. The first time I read this I thought it was Logitech.