Creative intros the MuVo T100 music player

Feeling like you don't have enough choices when it comes to small, thin, flash-based music players? Hoping that Creative will turn something around that has a strangely familiar shape and size? Well, you're in luck, because the Singaporean company has just launched the MuVo T100, a tall drink of MP3-playin' water that hopefully won't be confused with its namesake -- the original Terminator. Unlike the robotic killing machine it shares its moniker with, the MuVo comes in 2GB and 4GB capacities, plays MP3, WMA, and Audible files, can be used as a flash drive, and comes in a variety of handsome colors like black, white, green, pink, blue, and red. Try that, you metallic devil. The players will be out (at least in Singapore) by the end of October, selling for 89 and 149 Singapore dollars (or $59 and $99, respectively).

[Via epiZENter, thanks Vizion]

[JJV @ Sep 26th 2007 9:20AM]

hmmmmm where have i seen that before???

[dsfrantz @ Sep 26th 2007 9:20AM]

it's an 1st gen ipod shuffle that ate too many marshmallows

[CT A @ Sep 26th 2007 9:20AM]

Wow.. More brownie points for Engadget not mentioning the shuffle.

[Muu @ Sep 26th 2007 9:22AM]

Is it just me or is this creative's take on the first-gen Ipod Shuffle?

[Craig @ Sep 26th 2007 9:25AM]

yeah, i'll say... especially when creative CEO sim wong hoo completely bashed the original shuffle when it came out

[JJV @ Sep 26th 2007 11:12AM]

haha... karma i tell you

[Constable Odo @ Sep 26th 2007 9:34AM]

Not having a screen is a brand new feature. It's retro and simple. Why didn't Apple pick up on this simplistic design?

[Stan Winstone @ Sep 26th 2007 9:35AM]

Umm what year is this again? Feels like the past...

[Crayola @ Sep 26th 2007 9:35AM]

Enough of MP3 players already... Where's the ZenPhone? Is it really that hard to make a Mobile phone these day? The Chinese are packing mobile phone into cigarettes packs already! Catch up Creative!

[Ondra Soukup @ Sep 26th 2007 9:35AM]

iPod shuffle called...it wanted it's old design back...

[Natedog @ Sep 26th 2007 10:12AM]

Grammar called... You suck.

[lassi @ Sep 26th 2007 11:14AM]

43890 mp3 players before shuffle called too.

[Laurie @ Sep 26th 2007 9:35AM]

Looks familiar...hmmm.
No must just be my imaginations. Good job on the innovation front Creative!

[nih @ Sep 26th 2007 9:48AM]

Someone's decaled a new logo on that iPod Shuffle.

[rodcadneo @ Sep 26th 2007 9:50AM]

i don't like creative mp3, one to trow away is enough :-)

[derek @ Sep 26th 2007 5:45PM]

why are you trowing things away?

[Dae @ Sep 26th 2007 9:56AM]

What was the storage capacity on the first terminator?

[Mrmean @ Sep 26th 2007 9:57AM]

LMAO, nice copy of the old ipod shuffle...a little behind the times I see. LMAO @ Creative.

[Ondra Soukup @ Sep 26th 2007 10:06AM]

you should link back to this...
http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/12/creatives-ceo-disses-the-ipod-shuffle-thems-fightin-words/

[Ian H. @ Sep 26th 2007 10:17AM]

I thought the terminator was the T-800, and then the T1000... am I missing one in there?

[Jason @ Sep 26th 2007 11:21AM]

Yup, you're right. And the T100 is actually a Toyota truck, haha.

[OnZeFly @ Sep 26th 2007 10:22AM]

Nooo, it's surely not as the 1st gen Shuffle: you can't see it on this image but it is 3" thick and, mostly, it is inflatable!

[ryan @ Sep 26th 2007 10:28AM]

For some reason when i saw this it reminded me of the Wii controller

[Gonzalo @ Sep 26th 2007 10:53AM]

Seems familiar...look for yourself
http://www.chaffey.edu/dps/Images/Tech%20Brochure%20Images/ipod_shuffle.jpg

[derek @ Sep 26th 2007 5:50PM]

NO!!! REALLY?

[Gonzalo @ Sep 26th 2007 5:54PM]

ehh... I was being ironic, duh

[tim @ Sep 26th 2007 10:11PM]

where is the irony in anything you have said or shown?

[reno6 @ Sep 26th 2007 10:59AM]

Well, Creative is certainly trying to challenge the knock-off making abilities of the Chinese!

[maarek @ Sep 26th 2007 11:00AM]

Or perhaps it is a continuation of the MuVo design that they've been making since back when Apple was poo pooing flash memory players. Take the original MuVo design and mix it with the more recent designs and you end up with this.

[Steve Jobs @ Sep 26th 2007 11:06AM]

Hey Creative, 2005 called and they want their lame ass Mp3 player back.

[Michael @ Sep 26th 2007 11:37AM]

Not bad, while it is definitely a rip off I always liked the original shuffle design.
Unfortunately this players seems to lack:

1. A shuffle function
2. Wav or any uncompressed audio format support

I'm curious if it keeps it's place when listening to podcasts and jumping tracks, or if it pauses when you pull the headphones. Somehow I doubt it.
I also wonder how compatible it is with 1G iPod Shuffle accessories.

But for $60 it ain't bad. Although I love my 2g shuffle, it's clip and it's aluminum, I dislike that I have to erase and sync it with every computer I hook it up to, or that I have to carry it's little wired dock around.

[Vizion @ Sep 26th 2007 3:33PM]

It does have a Shuffle function.

[frankz00 @ Sep 26th 2007 1:06PM]

It's amazing that a company that calls Apple's products overrated makes so many products that look like Apple's products!

[JoeT @ Sep 26th 2007 1:30PM]

very unCreative!

[Vikram Dhar @ Sep 26th 2007 3:38PM]

I think I will wait for the T-1000 !!

And some more info on terminators:

Okay, Arnold's Terminator is a T-800 Model 101. "Model 101" refers to the metal endoskeleton, but the "800 Series" refers to the actual skin. Remember, Reese says in the first film, "the 600 series had rubber skin". It's the same product, just different packaging so to speak. The T-600's & the T-800's both have similar endoskeletons, but different kind of skin.

Van Ling, former Creative Technical Supervisor of Lightstorm Entertainment, and annotator of the T2 illustrated screenplay states, definitively, that "Arnold is an 800-series Terminator, Model 101. This means that the infamous endoskeleton covered in living tissue is a T-800. The fact that the aforementioned living tissue looks like Arnold makes it Model 101. Therefore, all 800-series Model 101s look like Arnold. An 800-series Model 102 would look like somebody else, but would be essentially the same underneath, since it's a T-800."

from http://www.eeggs.com/items/4979.html

[bradvert @ Sep 26th 2007 5:48PM]

This looks like a home pregnancy test kit. Confused users may try to pee on it to see if it turns pink.

[mini.mac.albertu @ Sep 28th 2007 2:57AM]

They are so looking for a law suit.

[MikeG @ Oct 9th 2007 4:43PM]

Still waiting for CMSS 3d and Crystallizer on a Creative mp3 player -.-