iRiver's N20 loses five, becomes N15, still pretty much the same

iRiver N20, you tempted us from afar but never came to our shores, so we were never able to caress your simple shapes and gaze into your PMOLED screen. Now you're sending over pictures of your child, the N15, which we're guessing you'll keep from us as well. This offspring curiously shares the same shape and most of the same features, losing three hours of battery life (12 instead of 15) and shedding the OGG support, but keeping the mere 2 or 4GB capacities, all in that lovely design that we will continue to adore -- from afar.

[k2001 Posted Feb 4th 2010 12:31PM]

I wuould like to see how much this cost, look intriguing, but probaby not going to uy it.

[egress63 Posted Feb 4th 2010 12:54PM]

Lemme guess, the 8gb version will come out in 2020.

Does iRiver think we are still stuck in 2003?

[Gorilla800lbs Posted Feb 4th 2010 12:59PM]

My wife has a previous model - N10, I believe. That one had a blue OLED screen. The battery life was amazing, but after two years of use at work, the headphones broke and the screen cracked. The unit kept on working though.

Back then, it was a nice little understated (and underappreciated) gem of engineering. But these days, we have Sansa Clip which is cheaper and far more robust.

[bolezhinkov Posted Feb 4th 2010 3:01PM]

nothin' like a good downgrade!

[NYNY Posted Feb 4th 2010 3:34PM]

Ok iRiver... Wake me up when the k1 arrives Stateside.

[Raziel66 Posted Feb 4th 2010 5:25PM]

This'll sound weird, but I've love to get something like this and just use it for file storage. Time to price check...