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Former Diamond, Musicmatch, and iRiver Execs Band Together To Make Captain Planet-Level Music Player

What do you get when you combine three execs from companies that didn't quite make as huge a dent on the portable media player industry as Apple? A company called Broadband Instruments with plans to release some sort of ultimate music player that's based on an "internet radio ecosystem".

What's supposedly special about this is its wireless connectivity (like the Zune), online radio station integration (presumably streamed over Wi-Fi), socialization (again, Zune, or perhaps Pandora-like services), and music recommendation.

What's also interesting is that they say "traditional" USB connections will "play a minor role in getting content to your device." We wonder which one of those three gets stuck being heart. – Jason Chen

Music Vets Prep Next-Gen Player [Wired]

2:10 PM on Tue Feb 13 2007
By Jason Chen
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Lupison at 02:26 PM on 02/13/07
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mp3 player with inergrated XM/Sirius radio + really big movie playing screen that uses Blue Tooth to port data from PC.

Also it's antoher device you'll be scared to death of taking out during a train/bus ride cause you might get jacked.
patrickswayze at 03:45 PM on 02/13/07
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"Earth"
"Wind"
"Fire"
"Water"
"Heart... are you fucking kidding me? I got stuck with 'heart'? What the fuck... I quit."
TravelSwiss at 03:59 PM on 02/13/07
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Is it me or does that guy on the right have a sort of Chuck Norris look going on?
ivealwaysgotmail at 03:02 AM on 02/14/07
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hmm so ... maybe... i mean.. i dont ... know anything... but maybe
its a bluetooth 2.0 edr next gen a2dp
touchscreen/button dual mode 40 or 80gb
tivotogo compatable, itunes fairplay licensed for tv show watching, DRM movie compatable with movielink, Mp3/ogg/mp4/m4a/aac lossless/ compatable divx compatable zune like transparent plastic
HSDPA/UTMS OR Evdo Rev A. OR Edge Compatable (model dependent) online music purchasing mobile movie downloading phone as modem dialing bundled Plan for Either Music, cell data, cell minutes, or just cell data and minutes, or no minutes at all and no data with a Computer configurable model, ALL using bluetooth 2.0 EDR to share what their watching, ability to enable a sync'd view of the same video that is unsaveable within Class 1 bluetooth distance, (130 feet?) you can share any song on the subscribed list to any other user that also pays for the same service, until you stop paying your monthly bill, OR you can share purchased songs for .25 cents that you can choose to either prompt the recipient of the song, or to pay for it yourself.
2.6 megapixel camera with 2x optical zoom and auto focus.

Its got a tilt senor to switch to widescreen model, Custom fitted SD slot with slide in, sleek looking adapters to fit both miniSd and MicroSD so you can switch the port to a microsd to copy something off of of a freinds phone.

It has a flashlight that powers off all other backlights for power conservation, it comes with an AV cord USB cord, and Power adapter (wow who would actually sell something with a charger!! how revolutionary!) and earbud headphones.
Has a Realtime 5-10 fps Visualizer, and Vibetonez vibration ringer sync. And has games from everything to Touchscreen drums to all of the PopCap games, open source OS, Search as you type Vista like Launching, Full Conversion software for participating DRM providing Music retailers to strip the DRM for another MP3 Player, or a CD. Possible FM radio recording, Tivo like radio recording, records the whole song until 10 seconds after the song ends, if you press record mid song, it saves it from the beginning. Radio recordings may have to be DRM protected from transfer. and to top it all off it comes with a finger ring Stylus to make your taps just that much more accurate, but its optional to use.

The end, the Superphone