| iPod has powerful rivals? | | | | the computer and directly copy the files you |
| | | | need. |
| Apple's iPod has dominated the portable audio | | | | |
| market so completely over the past few years. | | | | The price for Zen micro with 6GB disk drive |
| Giants like Sony and Microsoft where | | | | is $99. |
| insignificant players in the mp3 players | | | | |
| market. | | | | - Sandisk SDMX4-4096 Sansa e260 4 GB MP3 |
| | | | Player |
| Now, four years since the first iPod was | | | | |
| introduced, the question remains: can the | | | | Sandisk SDMX4-4096 Sansa e260 is a ultra-thin |
| iPod's rivals finally get the first position | | | | digital audio/image/video player with 4 GB of |
| from the market leader? | | | | flash memory compatible with MP3, WMA, and |
| | | | WMA-DRM10 music files. Keeps up to 1000 |
| Let's take a look to the leader.iPod is | | | | songs. |
| considered the most elegant music player on | | | | |
| earth. Apple offers three levels of devices | | | | Sandisk Sansa e260 has high-strength because |
| the iPod, mini, and Shuffle which can store | | | | the back cover is made with an advanced |
| between 120 and 15,000 songs.iPod price is | | | | Titanium alloy from Liquidmetal Technologies |
| $99 to $449. | | | | that is stronger than steel and highly |
| | | | resistant to scratches and wear. |
| To see iPod modes just put in your browser | | | | |
| | | | The price for Sansa e260 is $130. |
| Let us see the rivals. | | | | |
| | | | - Philips HDD6330 30 GB MP3 Playerultra-thin |
| - Zune from Microsoft | | | | digital audio/image/video player with 4 GB of |
| | | | flash memory |
| The best Zune model has a 30GB hard disk | | | | |
| drive that can store up to 7,500 songs, | | | | Compact and stylish Philips HDD630 has an |
| 25,000 pictures or 100 hours of video. The | | | | integrated 30 GB hard drive that can store up |
| Zune experience centers around connection- | | | | to 15,000 MP3 and WMA files (including DRM |
| connection to your library, connection to | | | | protected Plays For Sure WMA files from |
| friends, connection to community and | | | | online stores and subscriber services)or |
| connection to other devices. | | | | 8,400 pictures. HDD630 has color LCD (220 x |
| | | | 220 pixels, 65 thousand colors, 8 lines of |
| The price for Zune is $249.99. | | | | text) with the built-in photo viewer |
| | | | (compatible with JPEG image files). |
| - Sony's NW-HD3 Network Walkman from SONY | | | | |
| | | | The price for Philips HDD6330 is $159.99. |
| Sony's NW-HD3 Network Walkman offers | | | | |
| excellent sound and a menu that's easy to | | | | So who is winning so far? |
| navigate using a four-way directional button. | | | | |
| The built-in 20 GB hard disc can hold the | | | | According to best sellers list from the iPod |
| equivalent of 13,000 tracks or 900 CDs worth | | | | products dominate. The first 5 mp3 players |
| of music when using high quality ATRAC3plus | | | | best sellers are made by Apple(Apple 30 GB |
| audio compression technology | | | | iPod video Black, Apple 80 GB iPod, Apple 2 |
| | | | GB iPod Nano, Apple 1 GB iPod Shuffle and |
| The company claims the player can go 30 hours | | | | Apple 8 GB iPod Nano) Sandisk Sansa e260 |
| without recharging. | | | | comes on place no 6. The rest of top 10 |
| | | | best selling Mp3 players positions are taken |
| Sony price: $349. | | | | by: Apple 30 GB iPod White, Apple 4 GB iPod |
| | | | Nano Silver, SanDisk Sansa M230 512 MB MP3 |
| - Zen micro from Creative Technology | | | | Player and SanDisk Sansa M240 1 GB MP3 |
| | | | Player. |
| Zen micro is competing with iPod mini. Zen | | | | |
| strengths are: the size only 3.3" high, | | | | Zune 30 GB Digital Media Player (Black) is |
| captivating design and colors (is available | | | | no 13 in top sellers Mp3 players and Creative |
| in 10 electrifying colors), the vertical | | | | Zen Vision:M 30 GB MP3 and Video Player is no |
| touch pad (ZEN Micro's vertical touch pad and | | | | 16. |
| touch sensitive controls are designed to be | | | | |
| intuitive so that searching through songs or | | | | For now Apple' iPod is the number 1 choice |
| playlists is easy, quick and fun - try taking | | | | when comes to Mp3 players. Microsoft and |
| a cruise down this strip). | | | | Creative are far behind and have a lot of |
| | | | catching up to do before they can really |
| A new feature is the removable disk. | | | | compete with Apple. |
| Removable Disk lets you connect the player to | | | | |