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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Brando's 2GB SOAP MP4 Player reeks of iPod]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/24/brandos-2gb-soap-mp4-player-reeks-of-ipod/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/24/brandos-2gb-soap-mp4-player-reeks-of-ipod/</guid><description><![CDATA[So... every mp3 player with a scroll wheel that comes in white and black is a ripoff of the ipod? Give me a break...<br><br>And even so... they say that imitation is the greatest form of flattery....]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 24th 2007 7:19AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Brando's 2GB SOAP MP4 Player reeks of iPod]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/24/brandos-2gb-soap-mp4-player-reeks-of-ipod/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/24/brandos-2gb-soap-mp4-player-reeks-of-ipod/</guid><description><![CDATA[The same people that say every white mp3 player looks like an iPod are also the same people that say the iPhone looks nothing like the LG touchscreen phone. You've got to understand that the world is full of hypocrites and move on.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[LegendZ28]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 24th 2007 1:10PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Brando's 2GB SOAP MP4 Player reeks of iPod]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/24/brandos-2gb-soap-mp4-player-reeks-of-ipod/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/24/brandos-2gb-soap-mp4-player-reeks-of-ipod/</guid><description><![CDATA[Apart from being white and having its (though different) controls arranged in a circle this really doesn't have much in common with any model of iPod. If anything it has far more "out of common" with them. Also hundreds of generic players have "MP4" in their name, it's hardly a "rip".]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[treetrunk]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 24th 2007 7:31AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Brando's 2GB SOAP MP4 Player reeks of iPod]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/24/brandos-2gb-soap-mp4-player-reeks-of-ipod/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/24/brandos-2gb-soap-mp4-player-reeks-of-ipod/</guid><description><![CDATA[Brando has been studying everyone's concept for the iPhone...<br><br><a href="http://www.apple-style.com/laboratory/img/pict05_iphone_r03a.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.apple-style.com/laboratory/img/pict05_iphone_r03a.jpg</a>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[wWw]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 24th 2007 7:46AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Brando's 2GB SOAP MP4 Player reeks of iPod]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/24/brandos-2gb-soap-mp4-player-reeks-of-ipod/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/24/brandos-2gb-soap-mp4-player-reeks-of-ipod/</guid><description><![CDATA[don't they mean disguise, not disclose?  and there's an "and" missing from the last sentence.  didn't someone  re-read that at least once before they posted it?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Tjaden]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 24th 2007 8:22AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Brando's 2GB SOAP MP4 Player reeks of iPod]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/24/brandos-2gb-soap-mp4-player-reeks-of-ipod/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/24/brandos-2gb-soap-mp4-player-reeks-of-ipod/</guid><description><![CDATA[I'm pretty sure the author of this blog used the word "disclose" incorrectly. It was intended to suggest that the rounded edges of the player "concealed" it's true inspiration - but the word disclose means to  uncover or reveal. The blog says the rounded corners reveal its true inspiration.  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 24th 2007 8:30AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Brando's 2GB SOAP MP4 Player reeks of iPod]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/24/brandos-2gb-soap-mp4-player-reeks-of-ipod/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/24/brandos-2gb-soap-mp4-player-reeks-of-ipod/</guid><description><![CDATA[I'm getting a little tired of everyone attributing the scroll wheel to Apple's iPod, when it was clearly being used by mini-disk players years before the first iPod came out, in 2001. Apple chose the scroll wheel design because it offered (in their eyes) the best design in a simplistic UI control. They only later added the 4-way directional controls (play/pause, FF/rewind, etc.) in a later generation iPod, when that feature was already in use years before. By no means did Apple invent the scroll wheel design for the iPod, they borrowed it from others (see, I didn't say "ripped off").<br><br>The white colour is the only thing that reminds me of the iPod.....the design of the SOAP reminds me more of the Trekstor Vibez than of a iPod....]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[CLE]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 24th 2007 8:31AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Brando's 2GB SOAP MP4 Player reeks of iPod]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/24/brandos-2gb-soap-mp4-player-reeks-of-ipod/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/24/brandos-2gb-soap-mp4-player-reeks-of-ipod/</guid><description><![CDATA[Ack... will the fanboys PLEASE stop acting like Apple are the only players in teh game and that they've done anything innovative. I find it ridiculous that they actually came up with every visual aspect of their iPod without "stealing" ideas from someone. Get over yourselves. If you are happy with your iPod, then STFU about it and keep listening. There are millions of people who have no interest in Apple products and are more than happy to see other options. <br><br>Frankly I find nothing appealing to Apple's love for "white(C)(TM)(R)", especially since so many fanboys out there automatically think that because another player comes out in a white version, they are tryin to fake the iPod look. <br><br>With Apple's marketing $$$ power, they'd just be plain stupid if they couldn't succeed. Put that same kind of marketing power in any of these "clones" (you're a tool) and they too could have developed into a market smashing success, though I believe with let insulting behavior toward the customers (you had to wait how long for Video, when you know quite well they could have had it in there early on).<br><br>Get over it.<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[chris]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 24th 2007 8:43AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Brando's 2GB SOAP MP4 Player reeks of iPod]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/24/brandos-2gb-soap-mp4-player-reeks-of-ipod/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/24/brandos-2gb-soap-mp4-player-reeks-of-ipod/</guid><description><![CDATA[Hate to tell you all, but brando arent by any reach of the imagination the first people to compe up with this design. i live in singapore and i have one of these things, and $99 US for one of these is outrageous. there is no scroll wheel, the only way to navigate is to use one of 5 buttons. this thing has nothing on a Nano, mostly cause of the crappy screen but it has the ability to play videos, albeit at the crappy resolution you get of something like 128X128. theres also a mini-jack headphone port which just makes things a pain in the ass. overall keep away.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 24th 2007 9:07AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Brando's 2GB SOAP MP4 Player reeks of iPod]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/24/brandos-2gb-soap-mp4-player-reeks-of-ipod/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/24/brandos-2gb-soap-mp4-player-reeks-of-ipod/</guid><description><![CDATA[T3 has a photo of the SOAP player without this hateful watermark by Brando.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Ellis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 24th 2007 9:59AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Brando's 2GB SOAP MP4 Player reeks of iPod]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/24/brandos-2gb-soap-mp4-player-reeks-of-ipod/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/24/brandos-2gb-soap-mp4-player-reeks-of-ipod/</guid><description><![CDATA[Ummm It looks like much more like a rio carbon to me albeit with a bigger screen  <a href="http://www.digitalnetworksna.com/shop/_templates/item_main_Rio.asp?model=267" rel="nofollow">http://www.digitalnetworksna.com/shop/_templates/item_main_Rio.asp?model=267</a><br><br>There is a player to rip off. <br><br>Really though, it doesn't even look all that close to a carbon, but one million times closer then this is to an ipod. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Scott]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 24th 2007 4:25PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Brando's 2GB SOAP MP4 Player reeks of iPod]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/24/brandos-2gb-soap-mp4-player-reeks-of-ipod/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/24/brandos-2gb-soap-mp4-player-reeks-of-ipod/</guid><description><![CDATA[I have this and it is ok. The MP3 is ok but the video is awful. The quality is so bad.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[buzzzbuzz312]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 24th 2007 4:28PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
