Credit card sized MP3 player ups your street cred
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted Sep 25th 2007 6:14PM
posted Sep 25th 2007 6:14PM
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Yes, because information about the song is a necessity, any iPod Shuffle owner would totally agree.
Apprently some chinese dude got so frustrated with his shuffle so he dropped an anvil on it .....
Lets place the buttons in a circle and call it the iPod card, it will be so innovative.
This is soo lame. Coming from a Chinese company you know for a fact that it will eventually break down when you're in the middle of listening to your favorite tune. Besides I bet the sound quality is crap.
doesnt everybody else at least do 50% of their players in China ?
i like it .. if it wasnt for the butt ugly print i'd buy one :)
time for some US company to get in on the deal and hire some guest artists to prep this thing up and sell it for double the price :P
mandatory halo3 print alos (yuck)
You know.. China makes some pretty good things. Its when the U.S. starts manufacturing mp3 players I should start to worry about quality =P.
Rudebo it's fricken flat, just put some stickers on it
how about an Apple sticker?
all of a sudden everyone is gonna want one
You do realize that everything Apple is made in China, don't you?
Mr Tech for a name like tech you sure don't know dick. Like the fact that whatever you typed that lame ass comment on? I'd be willing to bet a year's salary that something in it came from China, was assembled in China, or designed in China.
I vote against this racist comment attacking Chinese manufacturers. A lot of things designed by U.S. companies are manufactured in China. That's what keeps costs down Mr. Tech. So get off your high horse and realize the hypocrisy of your statement.
Holy shi-- 2 gigs and that small? They could have done us a favour, made it a bit bigger and had some cheap ass screen on it to show track details... I like that on a MP3 player, but I suppose you can live without...
have you seen how small a 2gb microsd card is?
Looks like apple headphones
Actually my friend has a player he bought from China, it uses the same style headphones as well, it might just be one giant house mass producing them for all this mp3/mp4 companies.
I think he pitched them a while ago, he had trouble getting sound from one of the ears if I remember right. Probably really low grade copper or just a low strand count to cut corners. His player still works though so I don't know about the whole "FEAR CHINA" thing going on. Most of our equipment comes from overseas, unless somehow you found the one company that fabricates and builds all their chips, wire, components, etc all in the US and exclusively use them for everything.
Strange, the 3 pairs of iPod earbuds have *always* broken down in the right ear. An iPod photo, a 5G and an iPod nano 2G.
...mine died in the left ear
lol those POS 'buds came with my "iPod Ghetto", a Chinese player more terrible than you can imagine shaped like a 2G Nano. They're not even 3.5mm jacks, they're the size you used to find on phones for headset jacks, before they all went miniUSB or BT and they sound terrible. Clearly not a player worth reporting
I'm just glad an Apple product wasn't mentioned. (At least on the summary)
the war against china will be lost not on the battlefield, but at walmart.
- shmengie
I agree ssuk 2GB and is as small as a credit card, I think we've just found some bleeding edge technology unless i'm just so behind times that this was available a long time ago but i was too busy under my rock.
to quote deathwombat above, "have you seen how small a 2gb microsd card is?" Or even a regular SD card for that matter? Or how small the current iPod shuffle is?
Also, if any of you would RTFA it's got a shot of the player from the side.
http://usb.brando.com.hk/prod_img/zoom/ULIFE012300_04_L.jpg
..along with dimensions. It's 85.5 x 54 x 4.5 mm, which puts it at nearly 6x the thickness of a credit card (as if any of us REALLY thought it would be cc thin?). And it weighs 20g.
For comparison, the shuffle is 41.2 x 27.3 x 10.5mm, and that's including the clip, which makes up approximately 1/2 the shuffle's thickness. And it only weighs 15.6g. So the shuffle is 1/4 the size, a tad over 2x the thickness including the clip, and it weighs less than this cc-sized player. Hardly seems like this "credit card sized" player is "bleeding edge" tech...
WHAT? Retract that statement. NOW. Most Chinese players are pirated/fakes of popular American ones, and are labelled as "MP4 players". Half-baked ideas, like Aigo's "Watch MP3 player", are... spiffed. And you know the... jerks at Meizu and their CEO, claiming innovation after innovation with the M6 miniONE and M3 Music Card, when they're obvious fakes/inspirations of Apple's products.
You are fricking crazy. Where do you think iPods come from? Or in fact, 90% of our products?
I said manufacturing, not design.
Why is it whenever they make some fancy new 'credit card sized' device, they never show the thickness? I dunno about you, but I hardly consider 'bar of soap sized' to be the same thing.
its pretty clear from the pic. actually .. its not credit card thick - maybe 2 or 3 times but its still very very slim - wonder how flexible it is
They show the thickness on their site u berk...
Okay so it's a good product to, dare I say, compete, with the Shuffle. However, Shuffle has that handy-dandy clip and I'm not sure I'd trust that my MP3 player in my wallet (in my posterior pants pocket) would survive the awesome crushing power of my glutes.
In other words, he has a fat ass. :p
I wonder what the APR is on that thing.
It starts out pretty damned good, but after a few months... UFIA.
What's the point of making a credit card sized mp3 player, if the earphones aren't credit-card sized?
It's one thing to have a small mp3 player, but you still have to find room for the headphones.
What they really need is an mp3 player with built-in earbud storage, to keep the cables from tangling with stuff in your pocket.
...and I know there are many bluetooth headsets out there, but it's just not the same.
"It's one thing to have a small mp3 player, but you still have to find room for the headphones"
It's called a pocket.
If it can survive someone sitting on it while inside the wallet and playing, then I'm intrigued. If not, then a credit card sized player is just...annoying.
K-Canuck - There's always the http://www.marware.com/PRODUCTS/Cases-for-iPod-Classic/Sidewinder-for-iPod-Classic
Sure it fits in your wallet, but it gives thieves two reasons to pick you, wallet and the mp3.
Heck i don't trust chinese products either, and I'm CHINESE. what can i say...there are just too many counterfeiters out there.
I highly doubt this would actually fit in the credit card slots in most people's wallets. Maybe if it were half as thick, but even then it'd be a tight squeeze.
You don't trust chinese products? then how do you eat / drive / walk / browse the net / watch tv. Think, think before you hit submit.
liked the first part and the second part... pick up your keyboard that you're typing on and find out where it was made, the chair youre sitting on, etc.
kax02 and eric,
you misunderstood me. if you read my entire comment (and not just scanning it and make a quick judgment), you will see that i said there are too many counterfeiters. China does have a bootlegging problem and many products sold in China are counterfeit products. Since i'm in the US and most products in US are made by US factories in China, the products here are not counterfeits. I've lived in China for nine years so i know what i'm talking about.
Ultra thin, 2gb, and $42? What's not to like? Add an OLED slim form screen and you're spoiled.
And yeah, last time I checked most consumer electronics are made in China and Asia at least.
Actually you can change the art on the face of the "card". There's a bit of text under the description that says contact them to add your own logo and word.
"We can make your own logo and word on the card. Contact us"
I'm surprised no one saw that. The text is in red too.
Does the liquid print come in yellow? eewwwww
lmao, motorola style charger
Great MP3 Players with new and exciting Lead Paint! Even Apple can't beat that.
How do you transfer music onto it?
probably the same way as the newer shuffles...through the headphones jack.
I don't know why everyone's complaining about it not having a screen. I can name all of my songs by heart, and be able to guess the track time within 10 seconds or so.
Then again, I only have 2GB of music.
Made in China. Ok. Most stuff is, but the quality standards for each manufacturing location vary dramatically. That is the key. I'm not particularly an Apple fan, but I trust their quality standards will be upheld no matter where their products are made. So, bottom line. It doesn't matter that your chair, keyboard, etc are made in china. It does matter who puts their name on it and takes responsibility for the quality long-term.
There's a difference between "made in China" and "designed in China"
Now i need a wallet
Add some bluetooth to it, get rid of the regular headphones jack, and cover it with e-ink so it can display song names and time and you got yourself a winner.
Creative has release a new ZEN flash player, that is credit card size and gives the iPod Nano a run for the money. Unlike the iPod, the ZEN is not made in China, but in Malaysia, so it's better quality
So now when a thief grabs my earphones hoping to land an iPod he will not only get my MP3 player but my wallet too.
I'll pass.
4.5mm... 0.17 inches...
People, we have a new record-breaker for "Slimmest DAP That Is So Much More Tedious To Use Than Its Sexy Statistic"!!! Previously held by the Creative MuVo Slim (0.27 in./7mm), Apple iPod nano 2G (0.26 in./6.5mm), and now this one!
Interesting products, looks really Slim and stylish, does this product support SD card or CF card, I checked out a mp3 store with some similar MP3 players support SD flash memory card, http://mp3-players.lightinthebox.com/509/index.html