http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/17/the-engadget-interview-iriver-america-president-jonathan-sasse/ Engadget Comments for The Engadget Interview: iriver America President Jonathan Sasse http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/17/the-engadget-interview-iriver-america-president-jonathan-sasse/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/17/the-engadget-interview-iriver-america-president-jonathan-sasse/
That being said the subscription/purchase model URGE offers is nice and the Clix is a great little device to use with it. I just DL what I want for the day/week and toss it on there. It's UI is nice, it's screen good, battery life excellent. Overall I have no complaints.

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http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/23/irivers-future-wibro-gaming-or-bust/

... two months ago.
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http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/23/irivers-future-wibro-gaming-or-bust/

... two months ago.
]]>Jul 17th 2006 5:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/17/the-engadget-interview-iriver-america-president-jonathan-sasse/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/17/the-engadget-interview-iriver-america-president-jonathan-sasse/
This doesn't mean that iriver America isn't going full-steam ahead with the clix and other portable media players. iriver isn't quitting the portable media player market, at least not as far as we know, it's just looks like they were going to be making a big bet on WiBro-capable devices that can handle both gaming and media. ]]>Jul 17th 2006 5:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/17/the-engadget-interview-iriver-america-president-jonathan-sasse/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/17/the-engadget-interview-iriver-america-president-jonathan-sasse/
Sorry for the double post.]]>Jul 17th 2006 5:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/17/the-engadget-interview-iriver-america-president-jonathan-sasse/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/17/the-engadget-interview-iriver-america-president-jonathan-sasse/Jul 17th 2006 6:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/17/the-engadget-interview-iriver-america-president-jonathan-sasse/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/17/the-engadget-interview-iriver-america-president-jonathan-sasse/TIA
Molly]]>Jul 17th 2006 9:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/17/the-engadget-interview-iriver-america-president-jonathan-sasse/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/17/the-engadget-interview-iriver-america-president-jonathan-sasse/
Trusting in the intelligence of your customers must not be a very good business model. Sad. iRiver might never improve on the H100 series, which just might be the best mp3 player ever made (the Rio Karma's pretty nice too, and equally discontinued).

Does that mean that the Cowon/iAudio folks are the only no-nonsense technology guys left in the mp3-player biz?]]>Jul 18th 2006 1:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/17/the-engadget-interview-iriver-america-president-jonathan-sasse/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/17/the-engadget-interview-iriver-america-president-jonathan-sasse/Great interview though.]]>Jul 18th 2006 3:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/17/the-engadget-interview-iriver-america-president-jonathan-sasse/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/17/the-engadget-interview-iriver-america-president-jonathan-sasse/I definitely agree with that statement but at the same time, what good does it do to promote all-you-can eat video services and compatible devices when your battery craps out after only an hour or so?
Also, it would be nice if these devices had a stupid switch so manufacturers wouldn't have to sacrifice geek-essential features for mass consumer appeal.]]>Jul 18th 2006 3:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/17/the-engadget-interview-iriver-america-president-jonathan-sasse/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/17/the-engadget-interview-iriver-america-president-jonathan-sasse/
How about Sasse gets out a Thesaurus and learns some synonyms for 'cool'...]]>Jul 18th 2006 6:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/17/the-engadget-interview-iriver-america-president-jonathan-sasse/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/17/the-engadget-interview-iriver-america-president-jonathan-sasse/
I have a iRiver H320 and have recently put Rockbox on it!

Molly
http://afl.mollyzine.com
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At this point (clix firmware version 1.11), clix can only be charged by connecting to a PC (no Mac) w/ WMP10+, or else it will not recharge itself at all (not even w/ an USB power supply). So to those of you who go on a long trip w/o PC, clix WILL die on you (and some forums said it will only recharge if the battery drops to near death condition, who knows?).

By the way, I DO own a Clix and love it (except the above). The hardware is nearly perfect, but the integration w/ MS's MWP10+ might need a patch or two (as always w/ MS ;), right?)]]>Jul 27th 2006 9:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/17/the-engadget-interview-iriver-america-president-jonathan-sasse/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/17/the-engadget-interview-iriver-america-president-jonathan-sasse/
]]>Oct 24th 2006 11:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/17/the-engadget-interview-iriver-america-president-jonathan-sasse/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/17/the-engadget-interview-iriver-america-president-jonathan-sasse/May 7th 2007 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/17/the-engadget-interview-iriver-america-president-jonathan-sasse/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/17/the-engadget-interview-iriver-america-president-jonathan-sasse/ I can move music to/from the Clix using gnomad2 on Linux, but I have to plug it into a Windows machine to charge the battery.
I'll give gnomad a try, I've also heard some people are now having success using libmtp in Linux, I've been charging the battery using either Linux or Windows, pretty sure it doesn't matter which, as long as the Clix thinks the battery is flat it will charge from USB, there must be something different about what machine you plug into, maybe you're using a hub on the non charging machine and it doesn't pass power through (very wild guess).]]>May 9th 2007 9:59AM