And while it is a rather impressive one, it remains, well, a portable MP3 player.
On Oct. 23, Apple announced that this "breakthrough device" is a portable MP3 player.
The robot, brought to you by TOSY Robotic, is also a portable MP3 player with 2GB of internal storage.
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With the portable storage market approaching saturation, the portable MP3 player market is showing lots of promise--and lots of competition.
When most people were introduced to the idea of owning a portable MP3 player, they were introduced via the iPod.
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Iomega's HipZip is a portable MP3 player that uses disks about the size of a half-dollar coin to record songs from the Internet.
When compared with its closest competition, a portable MP3 player connected to something like the Altec-Lansing inMotion speakers, the PSS110 is more convenient.
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For those who wish to carry their music in a portable mp3 player, they have 320kbps files that far exceed the quality of standard MP3 files.
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The Diamond Rio was the first portable MP3 player, I had one in 1999. iTunes was good integration given that all the alternatives (like Napster) were illegal.
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This goes some of the way towards explaining why, 11 years after the introduction of the iPod, Apple still has a lock on the portable MP3 player market, but phones are becoming hotly contested space.
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Songs prepared in the MP3 format can be played on any portable music player.
Though it was not the first MP3 player to hit the market, the iPod was the first to take the portable flash player and install a hard drive, giving it maximum storage space.
Huaqi claims that Aigo is China's biggest-selling make of MP3 player, as well as the leader in mobile storage (memory sticks and portable hard drives) and number four or five in digital cameras.
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