Suhit Gupta
04-27-2004, 06:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=ja_en&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.green-house.co.jp%2fnews%2f2004%2fr0415a.html' target='_blank'>http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=ja_en&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.green-house.co.jp%2fnews%2f2004%2fr0415a.html</a><br /><br /></div>The Green House corporation has created a 256 MB MP3 player model that will feature a built in speaker. This will player will be available starting late April, though apparently in Japan only.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/kanax3_256.jpg" /><br /><br />In addition to the 256MB model, they also have a 128MB model. Both models feature a built in FM tuner, sound recording, real time MP3 encoding and ID3 tag parsing. The speaker is available only in the 256MB model.<br /><br />I am not really sure whether I like the concept of a speaker built into an MP3 device. While traveling in the subway or riding the elevator, I sometimes find it annoying when people have their MP3 player volumes cranked up all the way so you can hear the tunes through the ear buds. With a real speaker in the device, it may become incessant.