http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/ Engadget Comments for iriver's touchscreen Spinn gets priced for pre-order http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/Jul 29th 2008 2:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/Jul 29th 2008 2:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/Jul 29th 2008 3:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/Jul 29th 2008 5:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/Jul 29th 2008 7:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/
Oh and no more triple posting this time, sorry about that.]]>Jul 29th 2008 2:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/Jul 29th 2008 2:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/Jul 29th 2008 4:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/
shame about the storage though.]]>Jul 29th 2008 2:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/Jul 29th 2008 3:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/Jul 29th 2008 8:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/Jul 29th 2008 3:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/
I just don't see an upside here... Same approx. battery life, memory, and other essentials, but the Touch has better resolution, the new App Store apps, and Wi-Fi!

This thing has bluetooth... that's about the only thing it has going for it.

FAIL]]>Jul 29th 2008 3:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/your FAIL]]>Jul 29th 2008 3:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/
Look, if you're buying an MP3/PMP for video and music, then this seems like a decent device (as the device is INTENDED to be used for this). Your problem seems to be that you believe that lack of features in an MP3/PMP - that have nothing to do with video or audio playback - is a totally bad thing. The iPod Touch is undeniably not amazing at either really. Perhaps this is.

Of course, you're jumping on a product and calling it horrible when it hasn't even been released yet for public consumption.]]>Jul 29th 2008 3:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/Jul 29th 2008 4:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/- Much better sound quality
- Support for many more file types
- Brighter, more vibrant screen
- Bluetooth
- DMB
- FM radio

The only reason reason the screen on this is lower res is because it's narrower. 480x272 vs 480x320 on the ipod. This player is actually good at playing music and video, unlike the ipod that tries to hide its crappy sound and video quality by throwing in a bunch of completely irrelevant features.]]>Jul 29th 2008 4:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/
"Why buy condoms when pulling out is free?"




You get what you pay for and this may very well be worth the price given what others have already mentioned.]]>Jul 29th 2008 5:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/
Oh, and I bought them cause of Ogg support, sound quality, screen (it really is that good), and overall build quality. I have yet to break one, and I use it from running to everyday at work. So, it's at least getting 8 hours a day.]]>Jul 29th 2008 8:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/Jul 29th 2008 9:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/Jul 29th 2008 11:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/
You see, when it comes to sound quality, there is absolutely no way to prove which is better. There are only people's personal opinions on the matter. I salute you all for sticking to the argument that has no factual proof going for it. Bravo!

P.S. Have you ever accidentally glanced upon an article about the App Store? Or that new thing called Wi-Fi? T-DMB is cool, but it just can't compete with full-blown internet in my opinion (which I reiterate, is all your argument is boils down to!).

An argument based upon personal opinion is pointless.]]>Jul 29th 2008 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/
I see no use for Wi-fi really. I have a computer for that, and in most places, it's not like there's free Wi-fi everywhere.

The sound quality is not my friend.

There are no physical buttons.

I got a P2 for this reason. It was $50 less, with physical volume buttons, and a play/pause/power button, plus the nice touch screen, better sound quality, FM radio, a text reader, a few games (though not the greatest), a wonderful screen, and bluetooth, with a microphone.

Honestly, the ability to pair it with my cell phone has been amazing. I can dial from it, answer and end calls, and listen to music wirelessly (Not really a word but oh well).

Plus the dictionary is probably the most convenient thing ever.

I love the look of this iriver, and if it wasn't so expensive, I'd probably consider it. I wish it came in a larger size, I really miss having 30GB of storage. Then again, 32GB of flash storage is not common yet =\ and the harddrive players are slowly going out of date.

My friend has a clix, it's a lovely player.]]>Jul 29th 2008 1:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/
iPod Touch has the ability to run 3rd party apps, that leaves Spinn a mile away.]]>Jul 29th 2008 3:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/Jul 29th 2008 3:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/Jul 29th 2008 4:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/Jul 29th 2008 3:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/It used 65000 color AMOLED! lol!]]>Jul 29th 2008 3:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/
Shame such great devices always lose out in one way or another.

Looks like ill be keeping my ipod classic for awhile yet.

]]>Jul 29th 2008 4:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/Jul 29th 2008 5:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/

Hey i-sheep go shrivel up in a corner nobody needs/ wants your approval go give your approval to some other tech site link to C-net here www.cnet.com

]]>Jul 29th 2008 5:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/Jul 29th 2008 5:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/Jul 29th 2008 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/But hey, thats just me!]]>Jul 29th 2008 5:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/Jul 30th 2008 7:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/Jul 29th 2008 7:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/
Very nice looking device & interface. I like the knob idea too, especially for radio tuning and volume control. ;)
]]>Jul 29th 2008 8:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/Jul 29th 2008 9:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/Jul 29th 2008 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/And you get top notch audio and video playback. The screen is OLED. Expensive to make since its not mass produced like LCDs.
I have the clix2 and it's an insanely high quality product. Fabulous audio playback. I don't buy an mp3 player to look at the pictures animated across the screen, i but it for, well, audio. This isn't meant as a portable hard drive. If you will never use a computer again, and have 60GB worth of music on your portable device, then I'd see the point in complaining about the size.
As other have mentioned before, you get what you pay for.
- OLED (vastly superior to any PMP/mp3 player LCD)
- FM Radio
- Voice Recording
- High Quality Audio Processing.
- File Support (OGG and FLAC being biggies for me)
- MSC support (hopefully, another real biggie)
- Not tied to itune

CONS
- Price, yeah, but you are paying a premium for a high quality product.
- 8GB, still enough for me, but 16GB would have been nice.

Your mentality that you can get a touch for the same price, buy you are missing the point. Sure I can go down to Chinatown and pick up an 8GB PMP for $50....]]>Jul 29th 2008 10:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/
If all you care about is excellent audio quality I would go with Cowon. If you want to watch movies i'd go with Archos (or *gulp* Creative..). If you want an easay to use, above average player that does both, try Sandisk. ]]>Jul 29th 2008 10:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/Jul 29th 2008 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/
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Actually, the player does make a huge difference in sound quality. Obviously you'd have to buy a better pair of headphones than the pack-ins, but you don't need to get an external amp to hear the difference.

I own a Touch and an iRiver, and the difference is very noticeable, especially when you use the EQ. iPods + EQ = distortion central. The sound of iRivers are crisp, full and rich, regardless.

But then again, Rio Karma > *]]>Jul 29th 2008 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/Jul 29th 2008 11:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/Jul 29th 2008 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/
I think its really ridiculous how people complain about music players not being able to surf the internetz through wifi. One device per application will always be superior to all in one devices. I carry my mp3 player, my (sub) laptop, and my cell phone almost everywhere I go because no single device can do what I want to accomplish with those three devices. ]]>Jul 29th 2008 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/
I love iRiver, but the storage limits just kill me.

ALSO, as far as people complaining out having/not having WiFi...well, I have just one bit to say -> I like streaming my libraries on my media players if they can't store all my music.]]>Jul 29th 2008 3:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/
The headphone jack on my 5G iPod broke, and my previous D2 got stolen on a bus, so I was wondering if this could be the replacement for those.]]>Jul 30th 2008 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/irivers-touchscreen-spinn-gets-priced-for-pre-order/
More companies need to learn that simple ethos: good design SELLS. Pump some money into your design team rather than chunks of crappy plastic and you'll sell bucketloads.]]>Aug 1st 2008 5:11AM