Whoa ho! Looks like the new Napster is trying a new tip, offering a free Rio Chiba Sport flash player to anyone who coughs up the $120 for a one-year subscription to the music download service. And if the 128MB Chiba isn’t enough to entice you (although it can be upgraded via SD/MMC), you can pick up a Rio Nitrus, with a 1.5GB hard drive inside (not the 4GB version, I’m saying) for only $80 more (around $200). Not a great deal, if all you’re interested in is the player, but if Napster has piqued your interest, it’s not a bad way to go.
It’s funny, though, to see Napster give away players to promote their service, when Steve Jobs maintains they keep iTunes Music Store around to sell iPods.
Read – Free Player [Napster]
Read – Napster to give away music players [Reuters]
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Rio ups the Nitrus to 4GB [Gizmodo]
https://gizmodo.com/rio-ups-the-nitrus-to-4gb-8312
