SAFA intros "Casiopea" portable media player
By Donald Melanson 
posted August 20th 2007 4:16PM
posted August 20th 2007 4:16PM
Korea's SAFA sure seems to be keeping up a steady pace with its PMPs as of late, with the company now following up its recently introduced DIA and 3one players with its new "Casiopea" model. Of course, it's a bit easier to churn these out when you don't offer that many distinguishing features between 'em, a tradition that the Casiopea looks to continue. As with those earlier players, this one boasts a 2.4-inch display, along with an FM radio, a voice recorder, a miniSD slot for expansion, and four pre-loaded games (including Tetris). From the looks of it, however, your choices of capacities are a bit more limited, with only 1GB and 2GB versions available for 139,000 and 159,000 won, respectively (or roughly $150 and $170).
I bought a clone of the older "ipod" look version for $50 in new zealand!!! sounds like a rip-off!
I'm pretty sure Casio owns the Casiopia name, may be spelled different.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassiopeia_(constellation)
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Cassiopeia is a northern constellation which Greek mythology considered to represent a vain queen who boasted about her unrivaled beauty. It is one of the 88 modern constellations, and was also one of the 48 listed by Ptolemy.
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Casio sure does own Cassiopea. I owned there EM500 model PocketPC back in the day. It was the first PDA to ever use MMC & SD when everyone else one using CompactFlash.
And yes Casio's version is with two letter 's'.
How the heck can they claim the copyright to something they didn't create? No one owns the Casiopea name, which can be a "northern constellation", "queen of Aethiopia", "genus of the 'upside-down' jellyfish", "series of pocket PC/PMPs", "jazz fusion group", "TV character from Battlestar Galactica", "tortoise featured in Michael Ende's fantasy book 'Momo'", and so on...
Man that thing sucks. And it rips off Casio's name (with the wrong spelling). Why doesn't this get a "fake" tag? Oh RIGHT, it's Korean.
Looks like a Rockchip kind of PMP. Which means the 2GB model won't cost more than $85 in China. SAFA definitely knows how to market.