http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/ Engadget Comments for iriver SPINN review http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/Oct 16th 2008 6:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/Oct 16th 2008 10:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/Oct 16th 2008 7:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/
*sigh... I'm so tired of this guy... I bet he's part of Engadget Apple fanboys. ]]>Oct 16th 2008 7:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/
yeah it sucks having to hear how great apple is, but this time he is right. think first, then write.]]>Oct 16th 2008 7:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/I think this is a great player. It's a pity that it has so little storage. If this had a hard drive and I was in the market for an MP3 player, it would probably be between this and an Archos 5 or 605.]]>Oct 16th 2008 8:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/
I guess Steve Jobs chose the wrong career.

Shame on you, Steve Jobs, for not following "who?"s authoritative and groundbreaking marketing analysis.

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Exactly! I mean, compared with all of those other laptops with multitouch trackpads, backlit keyboards, environmentally friendly aluminum casings/glass screens, four contact headset compatibility, 5hrs of battery life, and a totally wicked graphics card, the new MacBook can't compete! Err, that is, if there was some competition out there... I guess the only reason I won't get one is because they dropped the firewire port (@$$holes), don't have high enough resolution, and need Blu-ray drives.]]>Oct 16th 2008 9:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/Oct 16th 2008 9:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/
@zoopthegame -- I agree with your analogy of the 2GB RAM, 2.0 Cores, Integrated...... comments above. According to the fanbois, just cuz it is Apple, it is ok for them to charge that much for the presumable aesthetically looking Macbooks "just cuz it's Steve" ...it is also ok because:

(1). Because anything Apple is gost-darned looking astonishing and thius
(2). It is ok to pay more for it because of fanbois loyalty,
(3). In the mind of the fanbois, Apple et al never goes wrong and never do no evil
(4). It is also ok for Apple et al to charge its users (customers) for service packs, upgrades, patches to the OS, iPhone firmware -- and these are things that should have been included in the first place when they launched the products..
(5). Steve Job is got 'em by the balls...]]>Oct 16th 2008 10:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/]]>Oct 17th 2008 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/Nov 7th 2008 4:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/Oct 16th 2008 7:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/Oct 16th 2008 9:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/Don't get me wrong, I appreciate good sound quality. There are certain players I won't touch with a ten-foot poll because they just can't reproduce the music well enough and I've invested in a nice sound system and some solid headphones for portable use. But there comes a point where it's not worth it. It's that point where you're listening so carefully to make sure everything is perfect that you've stopped actually listening to the music. It's that point where the return on investment for better sound quality is insanely low, both in terms of financials and secondary functionality.
Maybe it's worth it for you and that's fine. But face it, you're in the minority and for large music player manufacturers, there aren't enough people like you to be worth the investment in a unique product.]]>Oct 17th 2008 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/Oct 17th 2008 3:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/Oct 16th 2008 7:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/Oct 16th 2008 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/Oct 16th 2008 7:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/Oct 16th 2008 7:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/
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So, it's not supported by rockbox yet then, right?]]>Oct 16th 2008 8:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/Oct 16th 2008 8:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/Which part of the desktop side didn't you get? Rockbox is completely irrelevent to the quotes you posted.]]>Oct 16th 2008 8:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/Oct 16th 2008 8:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/Oct 16th 2008 8:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/
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There is a "portrait" mode. See the review on anythingbutipod.com]]>Oct 17th 2008 2:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/
For once a good company really stands up to defy the mainstream with a kickass player. And if you guys out there can do nothing but complain (while rocking your ipods in your arms humming lullabies), you better look around and see whats actually going on. Cause last i checked, every living thing looked like the ipod or the iphone.

Price? Seriously. Are gadget people really gonna bitsjh about price, when most of us would pay great prices for "dumb" things any day. Heck, the lot of us obey cars and snazzy expensive stuff like that too. And...... Im probably one of the pooorest gadget freaks in my country and i bet ya not. I have no complaints with the price. But why?

Because the spinn truely is original, beautiful, quirky and unique in soo many ways (and i love terry gilliam). This one would steal the envyous apple admirers attention any day. And the sound quality difference would blow them away.

PS: the only complaint i have on the spinn is the proprietary usb port. Whats that about.]]>Oct 17th 2008 3:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/The one on AnythingButiPod could do that. You sure?]]>Oct 17th 2008 8:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/Oct 17th 2008 8:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/
But apart from that i love how iriver is different from every other PMP. Cos everyone is following apple, where's the originality dude.

Oh yea where's the review on SPINN's sound quality? lol... people don't care about that anymore or what. I'm loving my clix but SPINN is definitely gonna be in my iriver collection soon cos I really hope iriver's gonna improvise on it? Cos I want a 16 gb one at least =( FAT HOPE i guess. ]]>Oct 24th 2008 2:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/iriver-spinn-review/The iRiver SPINN: + actually everything what the X-Fi doesn't have and also the touchscreen is something I find very cool not to forget the SRS WOW. - everything what te x-fi does have :D and also the price for the 8 GB version is noticeably higher than the x-fi.
If you could help me please as i'm at complete loss for which i should decide as i'm looking for the best player as a replacement for my ZEN Vision:M

Thanks

Daniel]]>Dec 10th 2008 3:59PM