SorobanGeeks passes on some first impressions straight from Korea of iRiver’s new wearable flash memory MP3 player, the N10, as well as some pictures that are probably stock photography but that I hadn’t seen; this picture showing how the headphones double as a necklace was especially interesting, I thought. You guys know how I feel about flash memory players — I like them, smaller is better, but I just hate paying so much for so little storage — but on up side the prices for the N10 are at least somewhat more reasonable than some players in the past — a 1GB version should sell for around $440. If that’s still too painful just wait. The hardware to decode MP3s is a fraction of the cost and the price of flash memory should continue to fall for a while.
And you know what’s making me come around on these flash players? Cool designs like pendants. That’s what they should have been doing in the first place. If I’m going to get reamed for a 1GB, it should at least look cooler/more interesting than a hard disk player.
Read – N-10 En Direct de Seoul ! [Akiba.Soroban]
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iRiver N10 OLED Flash Player [Gizmodo]
https://gizmodo.com/iriver-n10-oled-flash-player-18112
