iriver goes slumming with Siren DP350

It actually makes us a wee bit nauseous to see all these low-end Siren devices come from iriver's team of design slayers. Nevertheless, we'll hold down our angst-kebab long enough to tell you about their new DP350 media player. Your ¥17,800 (about $153) takes home 4GB of storage, a 1.8-inch 128 x 160 pixel display, and support for MPEG-4 and WMV video and AAC, OGG, MP3, WMA, and WAV audio. It also features an FM radio which, along with your voice, can be directly recorded to WAV/WMA files. Ironically, the big name players in this category offer devices at the same price with arguably better specs (or at least ecosystems) in DAPs half as thick. So sorry iriver, but you've got us scratching our collective heads over this release.

[Jeff @ Oct 5th 2007 9:23AM]

angst-kebab?

[zac @ Oct 5th 2007 1:32PM]

In preparation of skewering...

[Z @ Oct 5th 2007 11:07AM]

A PMP in China... OMG its an iriver knockoff!!!111one... o wait, its an iriver...

[allaina @ Oct 5th 2007 2:08PM]

ugh, it'd be one thing if this was their first release, or a step UP from an uglier design, but we ALL know that iriver can definitely do better than this.

come onnnnn, guys!! this thing is hideous! the only thing i'd use it for is a weapon, at that size. at least if it's covered in blood or something i couldn't see how UGLY it is.

[Sirocco @ Oct 5th 2007 5:10PM]

These things rely on false advertising: The devices are much smaller than in the ads, and in reality the fonts are unreadable (being so small).

[Webb Traverse @ Nov 19th 2007 1:56PM]

nauseous - causing or able to cause nausea

nauseated - feeling about to vomit