Polaroid readying pocket-friendly budget PMP?

While Polaroid has certainly dabbled in the PMP realm before, the elusive black handheld that you see above could be its next foray. Reportedly, the not-yet-named (or at least we hope, as "Portable Media Player" would be laughable at best) device will boast a 2.2-inch 320 x 240 resolution display, USB 2.0 connectivity, 512MB of internal storage, a microSD expansion slot, built-in FM tuner, voice recorder, and somewhere close to 20-hours of battery life. Additionally, it's mentioned that we could see a stopwatch and a few mini-games thrown in too, and while pricing and availability details aren't confirmed, word on the street suggests that this thing will run users just under £99 ($198) -- if it ever comes out, that is.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 25th 2007 10:15AM]

can it play bioshock?

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 25th 2007 10:30PM]

Sorry, the rootkit prevents that, No refunds.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 25th 2007 10:16AM]

This looks alright, but it looks more like a mobile,, why not check out this Samsung http://www.gadget9.com/2007/08/17/samsung-yp-s5-yp-t10-portable-media-player/ , It looks heaps better

[logic368 Posted Aug 25th 2007 10:16AM]

Person One: hey, bring over your iPod so we can hook it up to the stereo!
Person Two: uhh... I don't have an iPod. But I do have a Polaroid...
Person One: dude, I wasn't talking about cameras, I was talking about music players.
Person Two: yeah... um... I have a Polaroid Portable Media Player. It plays music too.

:D

[pohatu771 Posted Aug 25th 2007 10:22AM]

Say what you like, but I have a Polaroid TV, and it's quite nice.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 25th 2007 10:26AM]

512 MB for $200???

I think Polaroid REALLY thinks it's 2001.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 25th 2007 11:11AM]

yep, i got a 256mb with sd slot for $20 and a 1gb sd card for $10..

this thing is definately not budget-friendly

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 25th 2007 12:47PM]

Yeah, you can buy a Sansa e240 at Futureshop (here in Canada) for $120 with 4gb of storage, a MicroSD slot, FM tuner, and it does all the normal PMP functions (music as well as movies). Also by installing Rockbox (http://www.rockbox.org/) you can play games and make your own plugins :)

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 25th 2007 12:48PM]

Polaroid are supposed to make, well, Polaroids. They stopped making their cameras it seems and the film will be available for the next ten years. too bad.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 25th 2007 12:57PM]

Polaroid is a name only now. It has zero affiliation with the company that once made film, cameras & sunglasses. They are the definition of the term 'sold out'
there is no concern with quality at all - write the check, use their name.
So if you manufacture some cheap ass gizmo, TV, dvd player whatever - and don't want to use the unrecognizable name of your low budget company, use a familiar name like Polaroid.
To me, if I see the name 'Polaroid' on any new products, I immediately write it off as low quality garbage.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 26th 2007 3:05AM]

A truly 'pocket-friendly' music player would be flexible.

http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/13/fujitsus-flexible-low-power-color-screen/1

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 27th 2007 9:27AM]

I have one of these, not sure why you are showing them now. They were selling at Target. Its actually an AWESOME device. It has 512MB memory FM/FM recorder audio/vido/photo 2.2" screen, microSD AWESOME scroll wheel like a blackberry, and they were selling them for 88 dollars. When are all ya'll ipod/phone people gonna notice that the emperor ain't wearing no clothes ??

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 27th 2007 9:27AM]

I forgot to add that it does have a name at least from 6 months ago when I bought it its called the MPA-20011S

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 27th 2007 1:46PM]

THis still looks like the better buy
http://www.pixideal.ca/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=3236&category_id=72&manufacturer_id=0&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=138

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 27th 2007 2:39PM]

not sure how 160 US compares to 88 US ? I've used the MPIO which is nice, but the Polaroid really was a pleasant surprise.

http://www.anythingbutipod.com/archives/2007/01/polaroid-mpa20011-microsd-flash-player-surprisingly-cool.php