Jeremy Charette
08-12-2005, 12:00 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.iriveramerica.com/news/pr/8-9-2005.aspx' target='_blank'>http://www.iriveramerica.com/news/pr/8-9-2005.aspx</a><br /><br /></div><i>"iriver, the leading innovator in digital entertainment, today announced the unveiling of its T family of PlaysForSure-verified flash-memory music devices. The players support Windows Media Digital Rights Management (DRM) 10, making them the first flash devices to support portable subscription-based music services, such as Rhapsody To GoŽ, Napster To Go and Yahoo! Music Unlimited, providing customers with instant, affordable access to millions of songs."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.iriveramerica.com/images/prod/ultra/t30/T30-512/t30-angle.jpg" /><br /><br /><img src="http://www.iriveramerica.com/images/prod/ultra/t10/T10-1GB/t10-angle.jpg" /><br /><br />These new iriver MP3 players may pose some serious competition to the iPod Shuffle. Features include a color screen (on the T10), a well designed interface, OGG support, and the ability to use subscription based music services. The only shortcoming I can see is the lack of support for flash memory cards (such as SD). Frankly, 1 GB is just not enough memory. Ideally 2.5 GB should be the minimum for devices like this.