For
Newman, it wasn't enough to knock off an iPod nano from years past. Oh no, it had to replace Apple's iconic click-wheel with a prominent "N" on its MOMO-X2, just so it's absolutely clear what PMP is being aped. In all seriousness, we reckon that letter has more to do with the company's name than anything else, but it's fun to pretend every now and then. On to specs, you'll find a 1.5-inch display (176 x 132 resolution), a still-very-familiar opaque white / chrome motif, support for MP3 / WMA files, Microsoft's
PlayFX capabilities, a FM tuner, text / photo viewer, USB 2.0 connectivity and 2GB of internal storage space. On paper, we'd say that's not too shabby for 399CNY ($57), but the street cred you'd lose from toting this around would be far, far more costly.
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posted Apr 28th 2008 3:17PM
Made for the Zorro in you.
Wouldn't that be "Norro?"
heck, why not made for the "Newman" in you...
well they have another knock off, but of the meizu m6:
http://mp4nation.net/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_35&products_id=117
At least this makes more sense than the big "O" that is on all of the iPods...shouldn't it be a big "i" ??
Pure comedy, man.
Lovin' the aqua wallpaper.
[N]o.
[H]ardOCP called, they want their brackets back.
check out the totally-not-copied-from-apple background on the screen.
lol, these characters can't even think up their own background image...
I want to see a photo of this right next to an iPod, with the iPod on the right
NO.
Boo-urns.
What does "The Simpson" or that quote have to do with this?
What is PlayFX and why is it in all of these cheap mp3 players?
Short explanation: 3D sound, autovolume, automatic sound normalization (when you download music sometimes volumes are different for each file).
http://www.pmptoday.com/2007/10/18/jwd-pmp-6500-upgrades-to-playfx/
That name will forever invoke the image of Seinfeld's arch nemesis, Newman, the super-sized postal worker... guess the sound'll be, er, robust!
Muwhaha...Helloo .. Jerry!
damn! u beat me 2 the 'newman' thing from sienfeld. they should all come together to make one episode about this where newman has taken over the world with his n-pod and it is up to jerry and the gang to stop him! or not.
NEWMAN!
felt good to get that outta my system
Any letter of the alphabet is fair game fr such stupidity.
Nix! Nyet! Nein! No! Nada! Null! Naj! ... the list is eNdless...
Does crap like this actually sell.
any explanation for why there is a big N on the front? this thing deserves an L on it
It belongs to Doctor Neo Cortex! Careful Crash!
Sorry, but I think they rather had the Meizu M3 in mind... Newman is known for knocking off Meizu products.
Was just gonna comment on the M3ness of this. That big N is clearly an attempt to make it not look like the M3, not a "oh..wouldn't it be cool to have a big N on the front??"
Yeah, the first thing that came into mind was Meizu M3. Not the Nano.
Hello, Newman.
...
NEWMAN!
If you put an iPod next to it it will spell "NO"
Now if Toshiba, Hitachi, Akai, Kenwood and Sony all made similar MP3 players my point would really come across because then it would spell,
"NO THANKS"
Actually, it would spell "NO THAKS." You're missing an 'N'
I would just use another Newman for the other N....
@DaCheez - That's what a second MOMO-X2 is for.
Actually that stands for Nebraska :) Go Huskers ! ;)
In the advertisements for the Zen Touch, creative claimed that their linear touch pad was better than Apple's circular one, because "the shortest distance between two points is a line".
So it's obvious what's happened here. Newman has discovered some non-Euclidian geometry in which the shortest distance between two points is an N.
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Wow... the Netscape Throbber of yore becomes REAL!
That's what she said.
I have got to get one of these. Ultra-personalized gagdetry made easy! Plus, saying "Newman Momo" aloud makes me giggle like a wee giggly-girl.
Your avatar makes me giggle like a wee giggly-girl.
You make fun of devices like this one that look a lot like the iPod or iPhone, yet the similarities between new UMPC designs like the MSI Wind to the shockingly successful and well-established Asus Eee go unpunished on Engadget. What's the deal...when you're talking American market no-names, is MSI really any higher quality than Newman?
If you're going to poke fun at the companies that are "keepin' it fake," at least show some journalistic consistency by noting what the companies you respect more have done to earn that consideration. Oh, and if your answer is that I can look back at your archived posts...my follow-up is that your in-line text links rely on tags instead of actually linking to a useful article or article index. Look at www.dcist.com for a better example of linking using both tags (at the bottom of each post near the permalink row) and direct article links (in the text body of the articles).
Sorry to pile on the rants, but I've had them building up for a while...you mentioned "Engadget Style" in a post a while back announcing openings to work with Engadget, so I just wanted to put in my suggestions to keep your writing snazzy and street-credible:P