Telling me that an iPod is an inferior product adds nothing to my knowledge. I already know iPods are just a status symbol for those who need an artificial method to get a mate. The screen scratches like a cat trying to find drugs underneath, if your lucky you can play a few games if you are of the very few who can get iPod Linux running, it's fragile as heck, and now the battery explodes.
A Gameboy Micro with Homebrew Cartridge can play un-DRM'd music and most of the tools to make the music ROMs are open-source (I updated the GSM player so it plays in stereo) You can get 90 minutes of stereo music into a 32 megabyte GBA file, as well as play Amiga MOD music without time-consuming conversion (take THAT! ipod!), play NES/GB/GBC games, and of course play GBA games. I've got 22 16 Megabyte GBA roms on my GB Micro with 200+ stereo songs total. If you have Meteo, you can get five to 20 minutes of video into 32 MB (the quality is fine for stuff from Youtube.) Get an EZ-Flash IV with a 1GB or 2GB MiniSD card. And if you use the original Reflective GBA (much bigger) that runs on AA batteries, you avoid the exploding battery problem completely.
Or you could get a Sony PSP and emulate the GBA. The PSP has the advantage of having WiFi (refill legal MP3's in the field), faster systems like Sega Genesis/Amiga/SNES, an infrared remote control, and of course much larger memory cards (4GB as of June 2007). However the PSP uses a Sony battery, whose safety comes into question.
Those last two arguments are irrelavant if you can't get homebrew.
If you want a LOT of songs cheaply, get a portable DVD player that can play DVD+R_DL discs filled with 8.5GB of MP3 files. Using FFMPEG or Mencoder you can play videos on it too. It's not as portable though.
Wal*Mart is selling CD-R MP3 disc players for $20. It plays about 100 songs or so, then you just swap a 30 cent CD-R with new ones when you get bored.
The device is aimed at gamers and TV watchers, generating a 3D image with use of a pair of 0.7-inch OLED panels, which each display separate images, doing away with the ghost imagery that often comes along with 3D displays.
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Telling me that an iPod is an inferior product adds nothing to my knowledge. I already know iPods are just a status symbol for those who need an artificial method to get a mate. The screen scratches like a cat trying to find drugs underneath, if your lucky you can play a few games if you are of the very few who can get iPod Linux running, it's fragile as heck, and now the battery explodes.
A Gameboy Micro with Homebrew Cartridge can play un-DRM'd music and most of the tools to make the music ROMs are open-source (I updated the GSM player so it plays in stereo) You can get 90 minutes of stereo music into a 32 megabyte GBA file, as well as play Amiga MOD music without time-consuming conversion (take THAT! ipod!), play NES/GB/GBC games, and of course play GBA games. I've got 22 16 Megabyte GBA roms on my GB Micro with 200+ stereo songs total. If you have Meteo, you can get five to 20 minutes of video into 32 MB (the quality is fine for stuff from Youtube.) Get an EZ-Flash IV with a 1GB or 2GB MiniSD card. And if you use the original Reflective GBA (much bigger) that runs on AA batteries, you avoid the exploding battery problem completely.
Or you could get a Sony PSP and emulate the GBA. The PSP has the advantage of having WiFi (refill legal MP3's in the field), faster systems like Sega Genesis/Amiga/SNES, an infrared remote control, and of course much larger memory cards (4GB as of June 2007). However the PSP uses a Sony battery, whose safety comes into question.
Those last two arguments are irrelavant if you can't get homebrew.
If you want a LOT of songs cheaply, get a portable DVD player that can play DVD+R_DL discs filled with 8.5GB of MP3 files. Using FFMPEG or Mencoder you can play videos on it too. It's not as portable though.
Wal*Mart is selling CD-R MP3 disc players for $20. It plays about 100 songs or so, then you just swap a 30 cent CD-R with new ones when you get bored.