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The best I can guess is that iAmoled is a play on amole, which apparently is a soap substitute made from parts of a yucca or agave plant.

Marketing discussion:
"What's a universal demographic we can tap into?"
"Well, everyone uses soap"
"I like where you're going, Stan, but our product is more alternative, you know, fucking edgy."
"How about amole!"
"Dammit Stan, I don't know how you do it! Genius!"
...and SCENE.

And dicple? Is this the first in a series of 12 players designed to follow the innovations of the 'Jesusphone'?

Hell, I don't even know how to pronounce that, unless there's an assumed 'o' four letters in.. but I'm above that..

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Yeah, I just call it "my dictionary thing" now.]]>Jan 7th 2008 7:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/hands-on-with-irivers-new-toys/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/hands-on-with-irivers-new-toys/
Also, its not even called the iAMOLED, the device is simply part of Samsungs (developers of the amoled displays used by iriver) "iAMOLED campaign". The device is really called the iriver p20 (from memory).. Get it right, Nilay Patel... ]]>Jan 7th 2008 8:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/hands-on-with-irivers-new-toys/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/hands-on-with-irivers-new-toys/
It's not the iAMOLED, that's the technology of the screen. It says P20 all over the webpage. It's called Disciple and it's a dictionary for Koreans.]]>Jan 7th 2008 7:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/hands-on-with-irivers-new-toys/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/hands-on-with-irivers-new-toys/
Maybe the genius is lost in translation.

I guess I prefer mocking bad names to further research. Thanks for enlightening me!

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Is there already a way to do this and I just don't know how?]]>Jan 7th 2008 7:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/hands-on-with-irivers-new-toys/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/hands-on-with-irivers-new-toys/
This is what wows me about iRiver - their designs are so cool and build qaulity is solid.
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And you're right, iriver build quality is incredible..

Also, I know i've said it a million times now, but there's no capital r in iriver... just a bit of a pet peeve of mine... ]]>Jan 8th 2008 1:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/hands-on-with-irivers-new-toys/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/hands-on-with-irivers-new-toys/Jan 7th 2008 8:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/hands-on-with-irivers-new-toys/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/hands-on-with-irivers-new-toys/Jan 7th 2008 9:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/hands-on-with-irivers-new-toys/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/hands-on-with-irivers-new-toys/
I guess Sony has sort of gotten their heads out of their a$$ too. The new Walkman line certainly looks better than it used to. I think iRiver is the only company other than Apple though that truly understands hardware and software design. Their stuff looks like it's very innovative without a lot of extra crap tacked on to give the "bigger-is-better" crowd a woody.]]>Jan 7th 2008 10:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/hands-on-with-irivers-new-toys/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/hands-on-with-irivers-new-toys/Jan 8th 2008 1:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/hands-on-with-irivers-new-toys/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/hands-on-with-irivers-new-toys/
the spinn looks excellent, good successor to the clix...]]>Jan 7th 2008 10:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/hands-on-with-irivers-new-toys/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/hands-on-with-irivers-new-toys/
The third-generation iriver clix (it's inevitable!) is curiously absent, though. I suspect Bluetooth, bigger screen, and perhaps, equal D*click sides. Oh, and 16/32GB to finally compete with hard drive players.]]>Jan 7th 2008 11:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/hands-on-with-irivers-new-toys/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/hands-on-with-irivers-new-toys/
But if you really love the d*click system, check out the iriver LPlayer, it features d*click, but the features are otherwise mediocre (when compared to the clix2). It definitly is a top notch nano competitor though and the design kills the clix2 design IMO. ]]>Jan 8th 2008 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/hands-on-with-irivers-new-toys/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/hands-on-with-irivers-new-toys/
I bet you guys have never said Ipod or i-pod, right?]]>Jan 8th 2008 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/hands-on-with-irivers-new-toys/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/hands-on-with-irivers-new-toys/Jan 8th 2008 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/hands-on-with-irivers-new-toys/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/hands-on-with-irivers-new-toys/iRiver.
iRiver.
iRiver.
iRiver.]]>Jan 8th 2008 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/hands-on-with-irivers-new-toys/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/hands-on-with-irivers-new-toys/Jan 8th 2008 5:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/hands-on-with-irivers-new-toys/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/hands-on-with-irivers-new-toys/
I know, back in the day it was iRiver, but it's not now. Back in the day it was Apple Computers, but no ones been calling it that around here have they?]]>Jan 8th 2008 8:20PM