iriver's B20 gets hands-on treatment
By Darren Murph 
posted Oct 26th 2007 11:07AM
posted Oct 26th 2007 11:07AM
[Thanks, Andy H.]
posted Oct 26th 2007 11:07AM
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Nice size on that thing...I dont like the antenna though its f-ugly...
show me a beautiful antenna
one you cant see...
but how will i watch my stories
A beautiful antenna? (Probably an unsurprising joke... no offence!) It's in your pants!
so they made the device twice as thick and gave it a nasty looking antenna?...just for digital radio?
who's gonna explain to me why anyone wants this over the clix 2?
DAB is radio, DMB is TV. I think the antenna looks nice
Sigh... Japanese people have this privilege where TV streams through DMB. So... yay for them. Not radio, though I'd even have an antenna that size to have AM radio to catch my Vancouver Canucks.
And great job iriver, using the 2nd generation clix's OS for the B20. Great job. I can't think of anything else better. But why did you guys have to imprint your friggin' logo on one side? What about the other side? I'm a man of symmetry, okay? When I have a zit on my left cheek, I put enough oil on my right in order to gain another so the world is in balance! XD
I dunno ... I like the form factor and the UI simply can't be beat. Look upon the antenna as a "form follows function" detail. My guess is the whipcord form is far more efficient at pulling a signal in than the ubiquitous cellphone stubs.
Do you guys even know what DMB is? It's streaming TV.
"oh! thats why! drrrrrrrrr"
I guess it looks good for what it is meant to do...
but I still like my original clix2, antenna be damned!
What comrades?
Without an antenna you cant watch DMB/DVB.
and that's pretty ENOUGH, at least it fits the player design...
i'm sure you can find plenty of other crappy antennas out there...
did you know the antenna also works as a stand!
...like bend it down and you can put the player on the table =)
Mac compatible?
No?
OK then. Nevermind. It's useless to me and another few million people.
You can't take over the DMP industry if you don't support everyone... Why doesn't anyone but Apple get that?
you're not serious, right? saying Apple "supports everyone" when it comes to media players is pretty comical. so I'm guessing this was sarcasm.
Wrong. Despite their high publicity Apple still only have a very small percentage of the computer market. It's a fairly trivial cost/benefit problem to see that it was more important for Apple to support the other ~95% of the market than it is for any other manufacturer to support Apple's ~5%. Apple had no choice but to support PCs otherwise the iPod would have just been another overpriced Mac accessory with only a tiny potential userbase. For anyone else, the additional cost involved in supporting Macs usually just isn't worth the return.
Yes it is mac compatible because it is a UMS device.
Dumbass.
iriver's players are MTPUMS. Microsoft nor Apple don't do that. Also, like half the people here you have no fucking idea what DMB is.
The iPhone is trying to take over that industry, but it sure as hell doesn't support everyone.
Al, I'm sorry, but let me teach you some Tech 101.
When a device is "UMS" (Universal Mass Storage), it is independent of any software whatsoever. When you plug it in, it appears as a USB mass storage device, and you can just drag and drop, or Ctrl/AppleKey+C and Ctrl/AppleKey+V. The iPod does support Windows and Mac, but only through a "oh-so-seamless" software called iTunes. And... the iPod doesn't even support Linux, unless you have third-party software. So... you get it?
The D2 has been able to do this for a while.
The D2 has been able to do this for a while.
What, repeat posts?! Cool! I'll def. get the D2 over this now!
I have this B20 with 4 GB i got it from SOuth KOrea where they sell it bought it for around 340 buks good price and it also has a memory card slot SD its very nice i luv it