World’s Smallest 20GB Music Player

Thursday, Oct. 14 2004 | Author: MacGeek

Based on it’s specs, the Gmini XS200 from Archos looks like it has potential to be competitive with the iPod Mini.

At just a tad larger than a business card, but with a 20GB hard drive, while it can’t play music from iTMS, it can store a heck of a lot more music than similar-sized flash and (much smaller) hard drive based players and it can play both WMA and WAV music files. It’s even priced the same as the iPod Mini, but with five times the storage.

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3 Responses for "World’s Smallest 20GB Music Player"

Norgus

October 14th, 2004 at 6:51 pm
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All very nice, but you have to do better to perswade me to buy an mp3 player I am afraid.

First thing would be the REQUIREMENT for ogg support and the definate knowlage that it would play VBR mp3 files.

I think not supporting DRM rubbish is probably a good thing, also.
MacGeek

October 14th, 2004 at 6:56 pm
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Check the specs on the XS200:

“Stereo MP3 decoding @ 30-320 kb/s CBR & VBR, WMA and WAV (PCM)”

Maybe no OGG support, but it can do just about everything else. So what if iTMS downloads won’t work; just rip them to MP3 and you’re set.

It’s a pretty impressive package for being so small. For the size alone, I’d probably seriously consider this over the iPod Mini. Even the new Dell player only has 5GB. Big whoop.
Tim

October 15th, 2004 at 7:36 am
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The only thing this seems to be missing is some sort of scrolling device. Be it a rip off of apple’s touch pad thing, or just a mouse-style scroll wheel, players with such huge amounts of files needs a semi-decent way to navigate them quicky, not one at a time…

(note: there may in fact be something, but it isnt mentioned and it doesn’t look like it from the pics)