[alexander]

First off, I'm a "she", and not a "he". But it's okay, I don't mind...

Sorry, I thought about it yesterday after posting, and figured, whats on there is on there, i guess i could change it but i appologise instead.

Well I said unreliable because a while ago, I was reading many articles on slashdot.org about all the problems that iPod had. I don't remember exactly what they were, but I can always look up on that.

Yes, older iPods used to have problems, but they are corrected now. Frankly the only reason i can think of not bying iPod is because you have to use iTunes... I know a guy that was developing a PHP based interface to iTunes and just as he got his bynary translator working (and iTunes returns requests in binary), a new version of itunes that came out required some sort of a key to be sent with each transmission, otherwise it will not return anything, and noone can figure out the key...
By the way, I am not saying "buy iPod", i'm just defending Apples reputation, and iPods are pretty good, but not everyone has to have an iPod...

[Tormod]

No, you don't need to use iTunes anymore with this ingenious little plugin for WinAMP:

http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details.php?id=138888

[Tormod]

Originally posted by: Aki
well I saw some mp3 that does voice recording too, and I'm looking into those ones because I'll be going to university next year, and I need something to record the lectures. but I'm not sure about the quality of the recordings...

I have a remote control on my Creative Jukebox 3 which lets me do voice recording. Sound quality is okay for speech, and if you can live with, say, 64kps bit rate you get a LOT of recording time with a couple of hundred megabytes of storage. I use it for basic sampling "in the field" for my music stuff, which requires rather heavy bit rates (like 256 or 384 kps) so that gobbles up space really fast and is best done with a harddisk based player.

BUT sadly the build quality of the thing is on the wrong side of "bad" so it's close to broken now.

[alexander]

I got the solution for Aki:
she said she wanted a mp3 player with voice recording functionality ot something, anyways i found one for her:
http://www.iriveramerica.com

[alexander]

by the way, bit rate 40 to 320 kbps

[Freethinker]

I've got the most versital one around for her

Kyocera 7135 smartphone

http://www.kyocera-wireless.com/7135...t_brochure.pdf

It is a full Palm Color computer w/ full web browser, CDMA2000 1X technology cell phone w/spr phone, MP3 player, GPS, Voice recorder, Alarm Clock, Calculator, Media player (.jpg, .bmp, .tif, .png, .mov, .avi, .aud, .wmf formats), IR controller, Takes both SD and MMC expansion cards.

(edit) Oh ya, it's smaller than an ipod.

[Aki]

Hey, alexander, I really like that one you're showing me. The price doesn't look too bad I guess, but I certainly like the features and the "look"

Well I'm now I'm looking at viFP-195T, the one that does the voice recording... what I don't like about that one is that it only supports USB 1.1 and not 2.0, but does that really matter anyways?

[Aki]

FT, thanks for finding me that mp3., but I think that's more than more what I need and I don't think the price is "right" for me.

[TINNY]

Aki, there are a lot of generic ones which are far cheaper than, for example, iRiver. But, these are in Malaysia. Just to give you an idea. Then you can find one near your place.

512mb MP3 Player for RM 400 (about 120USD)

This is a cheaper one - abt. 95 USD

[Freethinker]

Originally posted by: Aki
FT, thanks for finding me that mp3., but I think that's more than more what I need and I don't think the price is "right" for me.

I have the previous version of their Smartphone and it has been incredible. I am planning on upgrading, soon I hope.