Take it for nothing more than it is (a lovely, delicious and completely unsubstantiated
rumor), but word on the Australian streets is that iriver may have an Android-based portable media player on the horizon. According to local distributor C.R. Kennedy's iriver product manager, Danny Bejanoff, the outfit is looking to take on Apple's iPod touch directly, with a 3.5-inch touchscreen, WiFi, built-in web browser, accelerometer, Bluetooth, a digital TV tuner and Google's Android OS running the show. Sadly, it seems as if this pipe dream has yet to receive the proper final approvals, but we're here to beg the brilliant designers at iriver to invest whatever it takes to make this so-called K2 a reality. Oh, and just in case that wasn't enough for you, Mr. Bejanoff also noted that the firm was working up a new e-reader and internet tablet, both of which should be out for testing in short order.
posted July 31st 2009 5:34AM
GO Android Go
Hooray!
There's loads of tech included in today's gadgets, but for some reason I always tend to feel a bit disapponted when there isn't a digital compass. With all the cool augmented reality apps round the corner and all.. I wonder if the digital compass will be the next 'orientation sensor'. Meaning, all gadgets seem to have accelerometers nowadays, next there will probably be compasses everywhere.
The HTC Android phones have built in compasses.
Yeah I know, there's been loads of gadgets with compasses over the years, thus I wrote 'when'. But until now I haven't felt the slight disappointment when there isn't one. Too many good implementations round the corner for that little feature.
Wow something that looks nice, can't wait for this.
As a joke, they should include a hard drive, so it can hold more than 32GB.
I owned a couple of iRivers, and at the time they were great little mp3 players. If only they had done a better job with competing against Apple with prices and capacity, they would have been more significant than they now are. Compared to the touch, most media players seem pretty dated. More power to `em though, because competition is a good thing.