Saturday, March 18, 2006
HiFi Blog Previews Creative's MuVo S200
Posted by Damion Chaplin in "HARDWARE" @ 05:00 PM
"Bye-bye scrollwheel, hello quad-directional joystick — Creative decided to change things a bit in their MuVo line. Question though: how is a leftie supposed to use this? Now, to more changes: the 96×36-pixel screen is now a PLED (similar to the more expensive OLED in terms of performance but worse when it comes to battery life). The device now comes with DRM 9 support, working happily with tracks from online music stores (not subscription services). In typical MuVo fashion, one AAA battery can keep it going for 17 hours — and there’s FM radio and FM/voice recording too. The device comes in three capacities (256MB/512MB/1GB) and an equal number of colours (blue/silver/purple)."
A fairly underwhelming release here from Creative. It's main selling point is the display of lyrics while the song is playing. A nice touch, but nothing really new there. No word as to price yet, but I hope it's pretty cheap 'cause that's probably the only thing that will attract people to this unit...
A fairly underwhelming release here from Creative. It's main selling point is the display of lyrics while the song is playing. A nice touch, but nothing really new there. No word as to price yet, but I hope it's pretty cheap 'cause that's probably the only thing that will attract people to this unit...
