iriver cuts prices on three PMPs for the holidays
By Laura June 
posted November 1st 2008 5:12AM
posted November 1st 2008 5:12AM
posted November 1st 2008 5:12AM
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99 more cents and they will match the price of the iPod Touch 8GB!
That is without a doubt where they got this new price from.
See, Sony? This is how you make sales.
As opposed to:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/29/sony-makes-it-pretty-clear-no-ps3-price-drops-this-holiday-seas/
where can i buy them? Fry's or bestbuy?
see you are connected to this series of tubes called the internet and...get this...you can search for things with this contraption called a search engine!! pretty sweet I know...
Thank God for Ted Stevens.
Oh wait, no . . . the opposite of that.
i love this player(the spinn) but went through 2 units that simply would freeze and reboot non stop. prolly a firmware issue. i had to give up on it and instead went with an archos 5 250gb(stark contrast yes i know) but when the spinn gets even lower(150 for 8gb) ill consider picking one up. still a great pmp that would be perfect with a 32gb capacity. oh and iriver: get some u.s support already!!!
still price of a low end netbook with so little functionality
A netbook doesn't have a real sound processor in it. A netbook dosn't give me access to music from being powered down in under a second. A netbook doesn't last 12+ hours on a charge. A netbook doesn't fit in my pocket when I'm walking/running/biking.
Netbooks are fine, but why would you try to compare them to a completely different tool?
I seriously wanted the iRiver SPINN something fierce, but not having the ability to expand the memory was a bummer for me.
Glad to see they're dropping the price some.
The spinn is hott.
No it's nott!!!
Nice idea, and it would be great to see a serious iPod competitor, but the Spinn falls short on so many levels.
Very disappointing, even at the new price point.
Man... this is kinda sad. I remember when iRiver's hard drive based media players were some of the best you could get. 60 gig hard drive, color screen with photo support (big deal at the time), digital optical out, good size (not tiny), awesome battery life, and one the best stereo voice recorders that was out there (actually, I think it would still rate pretty high).
Now it would seem they're just another company making overpriced flash PMPs...damn it.
I think they're justifying it with being close to apple and also that they have a very beautiful OLED type of screen. Also probably trying to sell it at premium price before they bring it down at black friday...