MobiBlu Cube2 makes it stateside
With its compact form factor and eye-catching design, the original Cube MP3 player has developed something of a following in the US, so it's no surprise that Korean manufacturer MobiBlu has decided to bring its successor stateside as well. Even though the Cube2 definitely has its share of drawbacks -- weak battery life, cumbersome navigation, and more-gimmicky-than-useful video / photo functionality -- there's still a small amount of cachet in sporting the "world's smallest multimedia player," which should probably be enough to help this device convert a few potential Shuffle purchasers. Amazon claims that the Cube2 will be "in stock soon," but if you just can't wait to shell out your $100 / $120 (for 1GB or 2GB of storage, respectively), MobiBlu's Yahoo-powered online store apparently has the C2 available immediately.[Via Anything But iPod]
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
juggler @ Oct 16th 2006 9:28AM
There's a reason they're calling it the "world's smallest multimedia player," instead of music or mp3 player. While this may be technically true, since it does photo and video (even though they are useless on a screen that size), the Shuffle is smaller, even taking the clip into account. The Shuffle, however, only plays music.
Keaton @ Oct 16th 2006 2:45PM
OMG!!! MobiBlu ditched the pink model... The main reason I got the first cube music player was,
A. It was pink.
and
B. It was much more sexy that the shuffle at the time.
UGH!!! I might have purchased the Cube2 if it came in pink... Oh well... The Nano now comes in pink and red now so I might be buying one of those soon... Apple is going to win this music player war if other digital music players manufactures don't get some common sense!
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