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Because you couldn't build a castle out of the ones floating around already.]]>Dec 29th 2008 8:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/irivers-40-t5-usb-stick-styled-audio-player-unboxed-and-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/irivers-40-t5-usb-stick-styled-audio-player-unboxed-and-review/Dec 29th 2008 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/irivers-40-t5-usb-stick-styled-audio-player-unboxed-and-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/irivers-40-t5-usb-stick-styled-audio-player-unboxed-and-review/Dec 29th 2008 8:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/irivers-40-t5-usb-stick-styled-audio-player-unboxed-and-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/irivers-40-t5-usb-stick-styled-audio-player-unboxed-and-review/Dec 29th 2008 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/irivers-40-t5-usb-stick-styled-audio-player-unboxed-and-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/irivers-40-t5-usb-stick-styled-audio-player-unboxed-and-review/Dec 29th 2008 9:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/irivers-40-t5-usb-stick-styled-audio-player-unboxed-and-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/irivers-40-t5-usb-stick-styled-audio-player-unboxed-and-review/Dec 29th 2008 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/irivers-40-t5-usb-stick-styled-audio-player-unboxed-and-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/irivers-40-t5-usb-stick-styled-audio-player-unboxed-and-review/Dec 29th 2008 10:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/irivers-40-t5-usb-stick-styled-audio-player-unboxed-and-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/irivers-40-t5-usb-stick-styled-audio-player-unboxed-and-review/Dec 29th 2008 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/irivers-40-t5-usb-stick-styled-audio-player-unboxed-and-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/irivers-40-t5-usb-stick-styled-audio-player-unboxed-and-review/Dec 29th 2008 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/irivers-40-t5-usb-stick-styled-audio-player-unboxed-and-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/irivers-40-t5-usb-stick-styled-audio-player-unboxed-and-review/Dec 29th 2008 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/irivers-40-t5-usb-stick-styled-audio-player-unboxed-and-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/irivers-40-t5-usb-stick-styled-audio-player-unboxed-and-review/
Then we did the patent research and discovered that in the early 2000's Philips pattented use of digital music with an analog tape player.

That's okay, the exercise in creativity was a great deal of fun.

To mirror the comments above, I agree, the proliferation of so many mp3 players has made them pretty boring...]]>Dec 29th 2008 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/irivers-40-t5-usb-stick-styled-audio-player-unboxed-and-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/irivers-40-t5-usb-stick-styled-audio-player-unboxed-and-review/Dec 29th 2008 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/irivers-40-t5-usb-stick-styled-audio-player-unboxed-and-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/irivers-40-t5-usb-stick-styled-audio-player-unboxed-and-review/
What is your status? Where do you live, are you middle class? Would you have bought this device rather than connecting a portable CD/MP3 player to your car? Most cars, at least here in America, have had CD players by default for a long time now. So I would not think that there would be a big market, at least here, for this digital music cassette...
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The device was similar to the one on picture: http://dvice.com/pics/standalone_or_car_cassette_mp3_player.jpg
It did have an SD card slot too.

That player did not become popular. Even my friend used it for a couple of times and forgot about it. The device could be used as an iPod shuffle, but the weird form factor and bad randomization killed it.]]>Dec 29th 2008 12:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/irivers-40-t5-usb-stick-styled-audio-player-unboxed-and-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/irivers-40-t5-usb-stick-styled-audio-player-unboxed-and-review/Dec 29th 2008 11:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/irivers-40-t5-usb-stick-styled-audio-player-unboxed-and-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/irivers-40-t5-usb-stick-styled-audio-player-unboxed-and-review/http://www.oled-display.info/images/samsung_ypu3.jpg]
The only difference is that the samsung has been on the market for some years... and it's better.
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But I guess i'll pay a bit extra for the iRiver T6
https://www.warehouse123.com/ProductInfo.php?pid=IRIT6-BLK

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