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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Source: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/04/computer_superm.html

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LotusEliseBlog

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

April 17 2007 at 11:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mark

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.

April 17 2007 at 10:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jaywarrietto

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.

April 17 2007 at 1:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Sam

Someone had one of these at work - until it had a power surge and the USB ports it was connected to stopped working. Permanently.

April 17 2007 at 12:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Erik

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.

April 17 2007 at 12:13 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Roberto

With no iTunes support, this is as dead as... no wait...

April 17 2007 at 11:59 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply