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Wired finds bargain Nano Knockoff
For about $100 (£50), Wired has found a Nano clone that appears to offer more features than the $250 (£129) real thing. Your money buys you a 4GB player with video support, an FM tuner, and a built-in voice recorder. Wired's Charlie Sorrel describes the sales presentation as cheeky (don't you love that?) and full of lawyer-bait, quoting from the sales page: "The groundbreaking new MP4 players have a similar look and feel to a Nano, but that's where the similarity ends".
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Roberto said 12:00PM on 4-17-2007
With no iTunes support, this is as dead as... no wait...
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Erik said 12:14PM on 4-17-2007
My roommate actually bought one of these in Chinatown (seriously) a few months ago.
Dude even the earphones are a total ripoff. And it's about twice the weight of a Nano. Plus, it's even uglier in person. It reeks of MUSIC AND VIDEO PLAYER 2000 cheap Chinatown-esque stuff.
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Sam said 12:54PM on 4-17-2007
Someone had one of these at work - until it had a power surge and the USB ports it was connected to stopped working. Permanently.
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jaywarrietto said 1:09PM on 4-17-2007
I got something just like that for xmas from my company. most of them didn't work and the few that did worked so horribly that you didn't even want to fool with it. I sold it to a lesser employee for $50.
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Mark said 10:29PM on 4-17-2007
I've got something similar - not a blatant iPod ripoff, but clearly running the same software.
Works OK but the proprietary video format is a PITA to convert to..and the video quality is lacklustre at best.
It does do alot for the $40 I paid for it though.
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CW said 11:37PM on 4-17-2007
I actually came across someone local (Louisville, KY) who appears to be selling these. I found their photobucket account that contains several flyers & images of these players...
http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w49/eDESIGNandMedia/flyer.jpg
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