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| DarkHawke |
Posted - 08/12/2005 : 12:19:36 PM
I've got this furiously detailed article I'm working on about what I want to see in the N3, but suddenly, as I was making my daily web checks, I wonder if I should even bother finishing it. Seems to me the editors at CNet have pretty much done my work for me with their DreaMP3 concept design: http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-11296_7-6282518-1.html?tag=lnav
Most notable in the article is that they list the real-world inspirations for the features they want in the DreaMP3. In three of the five major areas, the Neuros is a cited inspiration. Which is uniquely ironic since CNet gave the Neuros a good hard pan in their review of it! And yet, there's the deployable flash unit, the open architechture, and, wait, do I see a THUMBSTICK on that honey? Oh yes I do!
They say the features and capabilities of the DreaMP3 are based on extant technologies. I have my doubts about how realistic this design is, at any price. But truly, save perhaps text file display not being explicitly mentioned, I can't think of a better DAP design and this article is surely more succinct than my wish list has become! Check it out and see what you think!
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| guttrhead(at)gmail.com |
Posted - 08/15/2005 : 08:36:36 AM
I've been trying to convince Joe to put a g-force sensor in the N3, not just to disengage the harddrive during a fall, but it could also revolutionize the navigation process. Imagine being to hold a button and just move the entire player left or right to rew/ff. the farther you move it, the faster it would go.I got this idea from using a gyration mouse and seeing that gamboy game where you have to turn the whole unit to do things. There are so many more possibilities with this setup too.
I also asked him to keep the backpack setup, but have the faceplate be a fully functioning flash unit that could also be used as a remote to control the harddrive.
Something I'd love to see is voice recognition. The microphone is there already. Hit a button and say Artist, Tool to see the list of their songs. Or Album, Aenima to view just that album. Or Song, Eulogy to start it playing. If the player can't find it exactly, it could put up a list of close matches. Assumming you can find a program to run that without too many errors (I know some cell phones have this, where you don't have to save a copy of you saying the persons name that you want to call), this could the best way to navigate large libraries. |
| DarkHawke |
Posted - 08/15/2005 : 03:50:47 AM
I think the hard drive numbers are closer than you think. According to Hitachi's site, the perpendicular process results in upto a tenfold increase in drive capacity, at the cost of a thicker drive platten (didn't see anything about how thick that is). So the yield from that 8 GB microdrive is closer to 80 GB. Still, like I said, some of the tech ideas do seem a little dodgy right now. Alhough, even if it's not doable at any price today, there can't be more than one or two years separating this dream from practical reality.
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| adam.williamson1(at)btinternet.com |
Posted - 08/14/2005 : 11:34:48 AM
Oh, and Sony's battery life times are _also_ heavily fudged, being based on the formats which produce lowest CPU usage (although they're also the formats no-one ever uses, like low-bitrate ATRAC) at really tiny volume levels. Plus, Sony's players don't run 600MHz PDA CPUs. Sheesh.
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| adam.williamson1(at)btinternet.com |
Posted - 08/14/2005 : 11:31:25 AM
I'm not convinced by "In fact, when the project was in its infancy, we set the primary rule: the technology has to exist today." The wireless in-ear phones are a bit dodgy, but this is the best example:
"DreaMP3 measures 3.5 by 2.0 by 0.5 inches and weighs 5 ounces, in line with the typical micro hard drive player. However, the device is built around a 100GB hard drive utilizing Hitachi's perpendicular recording technology, which allows for a small form factor and high capacities."
is heavily fudged. Perpendicular recording increases capacity, sure, but AFAIK the largest available micro size hard disk is 8GB, and perpendicular recording gives you an extra 50%. In theory. That's 12GB; so where does the extra 88GB come from, guys?
adamw |
| Yono |
Posted - 08/12/2005 : 2:09:30 PM
Woah, now THAT is something to drool over. 
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