The
iriver S7 is alive, and it's brown, and small... iPod shuffle small as you can see from that pic above. The
display-less S7 measures in at 40 x 32 x 9.6-mm / 15-g compared to the shuffle's 41 x 27 x 10.5-mm / 15.5-g. However, unlike the shuffle's integrated clip, the S7 dangles from a lanyard in choice of five colors. What's more, the chicken-goat (choat... gicken?) and leg-raising-dog come standard issue on
every player -- that's no skin, son. Yeah, c|net was surprised too. For whatever reason, the animals represent volume controls whereas the humans muster up the sense to fast forward or reverse your ASF, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WMA audio. Don't worry, as we mentioned yesterday, there are plenty of skins you can apply to the faceplate. Oddly (as if it could get any stranger), c|net says there isn't a way to pause playback or preset FM radio stations. That's ok, their full report is coming so maybe they'll figure it out. Stay tuned as they say. More pics after the break.
[Thanks, Misticriver Fanboy]
posted Dec 12th 2006 8:08AM
Wait the dog taking a pee is volume down or up? If the dog is LIFTING his leg wouldn't that mean to LIFT the volume up?
I am confused.
Yes but the dog pees down ... trying to pee up just gets messy!
hahaha this thing is great.
Funny and should appeal to a market... they should however have a model without the crazy icons...
I refuse to buy an MP3 player that I can swallow ...
I'm in...
How much and when and where...
Oh...
And looky there...
Someone but a weird brown colour on a dap...
Wow, IRiver hit my nucleus accumbens fairly well with that weird s*it. Too bad I'll probably just make a choat sticker for my OracOm. Yes, I'm that poor.
I just love IRiver's stuff. They get top marks from Consumer Reports, and they actually ship with good headphones. I have no idea what these strange icons mean, but if IRiver is doing it, it must be right.
Well, in Singapore...chicken is pronounced as "Kay", which in the common Hokkien language means "Increase" or "Add". When a dog raises its leg, it is usually termed as "Shhhhh......". Well, hope this sheds some light to the icon mystery.
+1 insightful
wait this isn't slashdot haha
um wow iRiver.. wow. I love it so much. uniqueness is hard to find these days, yes somehow you managed to make a DAP that is pretty much 100% the size of the shuffle and yet.. is 100% unique.
bravo. I hope you CAN'T pause playback, that'll just make the player even more eccentric bwahahahah!
I do believe that is a rooster... you know those dumb ass things that wake you up in the morning, hence the reason it's used for volume up, at least as far as i can guess.
It makes the iPod look bloated.
To be more specific, I think its a rooster, cuz then the cock is either up or down, which corresponds to the volume direction.
Man, now I want one. The $96 choat sticker that comes with a free DAP? Sign me up.
*goes about adding "choat" to spell-checkers*
yeah, the iPod IS bloated with extra buttons, like pause. sheesh.
A little more looking indicates that the dog peeing is actually a mode button, the Choat is play/pause, but the running boys are forward and back. And CNet now has pictures of the other faces which some are text labelled, and there is a disclaimer saying, essentially, "We only had it for two hours!"
Apple's chic modernist styling is getting staler with each iteration. Finally, something humorous and unafraid to be different. i'd buy it
Hmm, where are all the screams of 'where's the screen?'
Guess that only applies to the Shuffle.
So as loud as a rooster or as quiet as a piss? Got it.
phtt... these two players have nothing on my Sandisk Sansa e130; it has a more settings compared to these two, and expandable memory... And just like these two, NO SCREEN! anymore... Now I get a nice abstract looking cracked monochrome LCD :D
That design on the iriver is like crazy Dadaism; any news on pricing?
If iRiver is smart, the Choat will become the icon the s7 is known for. I'd sport a "Long Live the Choat" t-shirt. IN BROWN.
When Microsoft is done stealing Apple's Icons, at least they have another source to go to! The problem is finding exactly WHICH application is most appropriate for the pee-ing dog.
Kidding... Kidding! :)
-Pie
@ EatingPie : "When Microsoft is done stealing Apple's Icons, at least they have another source to go to!"
http://iconfactory.com/design/clients
Try again.
wow ... what a breath of fresh air this crazy thing is ...
lol, read about it, interesting how iriver uses these funny symbols to represent the volume and other functions. how much??
$85@warehouse123.com - not a bad price considering their unique outlook.
iRiver looks tempting enough to bin my 1year old 20gb iPod..
http://oracle.anilpassi.com
IRiver - Fugly is a word that comes to mind!
For me iRiver is more about funtionality over making a fashion statement - which keys with me perfectly. That's why I've owned an H140 for a looooooong time, I've taken it apart when it broke, I've done little tweaks and stuff to it, put on the Rockbox firmware to make the already-great player even better... I don't like being one of the sheep, and now with Apple's ubiquity really making me sicker than ever, there's a little part of me which derives great satisfaction from owning a really good MP3 player which isn't the same as everybody else's.
Ironic that Apple's slogan for the longest time was 'Think Different'...
The older 1Gig and 2Gig nanos can be had refurbished for $89 and $99 right now on Apple store. I'd rather have a screen. I bought two and they look perfect.
It seems that the article on C|Net got the controls wrong. If you look at images for the other skins, several of them replace the choat with a play/pause icon and the peeing dog with an "M" for mute. So these buttons are NOT the volume controls.
So the cock is "play". Ok. That makes sense, since the rooster crowing is the first thing you hear and it has a "make big sound now" quality to it. It's wise they avoided the inevitable "cock up" association, too.
I'm guessing the dog is supposed to be pointing, like a hunting dog. This would make sense for "freeze immediately in the middle of whatever you are doing", aka pause.
I think it's a dog peeing. You know. Taking a break. Perfect for pause.
Or, it could be a play on "Paws" like dog Paws. Pause.
I am an American living in South Korea. I just demoed one of these at the Lotte store in Myongdong. I bought the S10, but listened to this too. The S7 sounds excellent. Pretty much the same as the S7, from what I could tell through the provided earphones. Much better sound than the shuffle. Good bass response with SRS sound option.
choat? i think not. goats have floppy ears, _4_ legs, and (sometimes) horns, but there is nothing goat-like about this rooster button.
Just bought one from South Korea, i'm loving it!
Only comes with one skin, but will get my korean girlfriend to find me more :)
UMM i bought something that looks just like this 2 months ago
from USB Brando HK
http://usb.brando.com.hk/prod_detail.php?prod_id=00359
its 2 gigs and only $39 and it lights up
the only downside is that the plastic is a little cheap and the battery doesn't last all that long. But you can pause playback!