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About this siteFor six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul Tuesday, June 08, 2004New Digital Music Player Has 24 Hour BatteryApplelinks: "Well, even an iPod user has to be impressed: Creative has been, well, creative, and come out with the Zen Touch, a 20 GB digital music player that boasts an astonishing 24 hours of playback time ... The device uses USB 2.0 to transfer songs, and supports the WMA (surprise), and MP3 formats. Optional attachments also allow it to receive and record FM radio, and do voice recording. It's retailing for $269.99 from Amazon.com, and is due to ship later this month. Well, credit where credit is due: whereas most pretenders to iPod's throne have similar or only slighly better features (if that), here's one that claims to triple the battery life of Apple's product. Hopefully this will spur Apple to come up wth something equally remarkable."Heck, the Dell DJ offers 20 hours of battery life today, so this isn't a huge jump, unless of course you've only been paying attention to the iPod (ahem). In fact, looking closely at the Creative Zen Touch, it's pretty clearly based on the same underlying device as the DJ; even some of the buttons on the side and ports on the top are identical. It's questionable touch pad control slider is, however, unique. Still, I give Applelinks credit for not completely trashing the Zen Touch, as any other Apple enthusiast would (and will) do. [ Posted at 11:00 AM | Permalink ]
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