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Some time ago, DS's little radio quit. He walks home from school, bopping along to the teen/tween oriented FM station and he was devastated. So we trundled into JB Electronics, a quirky shop full of cool gear, where I bought my camera, and shopped for a digital FM player, which just happens to come as part of an MP3 player. 256 megs for $79. No brand that I could recognise, but it did the job. I told him there'd be a pound of flesh later, and it came today.
Christmas and he got a Samsung MP3 player, a cool little thing about the size of a half-thumb. 256 meg, FM radio player, a manual that wasn't translated from the Korean for a different model. I said he could choose which one to give up, hoping that he'd keep the one he was used to, but no, he kept the Samsung and I got the Haldex.
Not to worry. I've been wanting one of these for a while, and until an iPod Nano comes my way, it will do nicely. The big thing is that I can rip audio books onto it and play them on my runs. The Canberra library system is getting more and more books on CD, and although we've got a portable CD player, what happens is that after it reads the buffer it skips and jumps with each pace. The cassette player isn't much better.
OK, the pound of flesh is not cool and it's kind of clunky, but it's small, lightweight and does the job, with several hours of book or music, and I'm very happy with it. I can slip it into my pocket, plug the earbuds in and not have to worry about the disc skipping or the cassette running out. Just press play and go for hours and hours.
Christmas and he got a Samsung MP3 player, a cool little thing about the size of a half-thumb. 256 meg, FM radio player, a manual that wasn't translated from the Korean for a different model. I said he could choose which one to give up, hoping that he'd keep the one he was used to, but no, he kept the Samsung and I got the Haldex.
Not to worry. I've been wanting one of these for a while, and until an iPod Nano comes my way, it will do nicely. The big thing is that I can rip audio books onto it and play them on my runs. The Canberra library system is getting more and more books on CD, and although we've got a portable CD player, what happens is that after it reads the buffer it skips and jumps with each pace. The cassette player isn't much better.
OK, the pound of flesh is not cool and it's kind of clunky, but it's small, lightweight and does the job, with several hours of book or music, and I'm very happy with it. I can slip it into my pocket, plug the earbuds in and not have to worry about the disc skipping or the cassette running out. Just press play and go for hours and hours.
Those are great!