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This time around, they better use a standard USB connector.
It sure seems standard enough for me, its the exact came cable that my Cannon camera uses, i just assumed it was USB's responce to Firewire's mini connector that digital video cameras have...
The pictures are not bad, but I would want neuros to be immediatally distinguable from any other mp3 players out there, so about if you see it across the room you can say 'THAT is a neuros 3 and i know it'
most screens on mp3 players are 3x4 or about, so i'd say make it longer vertically, and as big as possible, so that when you actually do have near 20 gigs on a player (which i doubt 80% of ipod users have) you can see quite a few lines at a time.
one feature that would be incredible would be the ability to have a small cable with a female regular USB A plug on it, and then be able to plug the other end into the neuros 3, and if you put a pen drive into the cable you could transfer things off of it.
I really like the ability of having the removable harddrive, personally i'd really perfer them keeping that feature.
as for pins, there are TONS of ways to protect them very easily.
Like my video card has a cable for inputs and outputs which has tons of pins, and a platic piece that slides up when it is unplugged. Or make like a cupler for the pins, inside of the case of the harddrive unit, so that its female instead of pins, then the only risk would be getting some sort of crap inside of the holes. Or some sort of flap that gets pushed up.
in this I'm mostly thinking it would be a dumb harddrive unit, so just a tight case for the harddrive, that plugs into the unit basically how a harddrive plugs into any computer, or modifies it slightly so that it can only be used in the neuros.
It would also be great if they could find a way to cheaply produce a metal case, i've always liked brushed aluminum finish hah.
As for the battery, as long as its realivily simple to replace, then the charge for it won't be much, if you have not checked the price of cellphone batteries, i don't think that cost is worth just being able to manually change the battery. The cost is obviously due to the fact that they are mostly custom manufactured for each phone model.
but anyways, there are my ideas.