2007 Gizmo Holiday Shopping

[Winnow]

I'm starting to see new gadgets and gizmos trickle if for this year's holiday shopping season.

I figured making a thread go collect some links to new media players, ect. might be a good idea.

A few MP3 players to start things off:


Creative's new media player offering: (my have some red-x action)







I like the SD expansion slot.

Text overview with some video of it here:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/blogs/t ... 21075.html

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New samsung player with touch screen:



and nano sized offering:



Both of these have Bluetooth for wireless listening and transmitting to anything accepting bluetooth (receivers, etc)

http://www.gearlog.com/2007/08/samsung_ ... ew_mp3.php

The bigger samsung is pretty ugly, especially that particular color choice, but I like the bluetooth. Nice to have buttons as well as a touch screen for those that prefer to keep the screen clean!

[Winnow]

Here's another ipod alternative. I like the memory expansion slot:

http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/10/the- ... w-returns/

The result is a smaller player that less video-centric, but does improve on the e200 series in lots of important ways. They've upped storage to 16GB (there's also an 8GB version coming out), made it thinner (it's about 8.8mm at its thinnest), added better video codec support (it handles MPEG4, WMV, and h.264), increased the screen size and resolution (to 2.4-inches and 320 x 240 pixels, respectively), eliminated that dedicated voice recorder button which we were always accidentally pressing (yes, we should have disabled it in the preferences), and replaced the sub-par music control buttons with a clickable scroll wheel (which we're hoping is as good as the one on the Sansa Connect). There's also an FM tuner, integrated digital voice recorder, a microSD memory card slot that can handle microSDHC cards up to 8GB in size, support for playback of MP3, WMA, and WAV audio files, and enough battery life for playback of at least 30 hours of audio and 6 hours of video. Should be out sometime early next month, with the 8GB model retailing for $149.99 and the 16GB model going for an extra fifty bucks. Click on for a gallery of high-res images.

Nice to be able to hot swap out and extra 8 GB.